{"id":128015,"date":"2026-03-03T04:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T04:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/128015\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T04:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T04:04:09","slug":"maker-monday-little-kids-will-learn-from-this-sorting-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/128015\/","title":{"rendered":"Maker Monday: Little kids will learn from this sorting activity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello Kidsburgh families. We\u2019re glad to share this \u201cLet\u2019s Try\u201d Maker Monday activity, courtesy of our creative friends at the Children\u2019s Museum of Pittsburgh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This activity is a bit different from the craft projects we normally post each week. Rather than creating a finished projects, young kids can learn about counting, shapes and colors by sorting all different kinds of items you might have around the house.<\/p>\n

What items can you find around your house that kids can sort by size, color and shape? Follow along with this video to see what\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n

A note to kid makers that we include with all our activities: Please work with a parent or caregiver on every project and always be very careful when using tools of any kind.<\/p>\n

Maker Monday materials you\u2019ll need:<\/p>\n


\nspare buttons or any other group of similar items you might have <\/p>\n

Instructions:<\/p>\n


\nEncourage your child to sort the items by color. How many colors can they find?
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\nIf you\u2019re sorting buttons, now try sorting by the number of holes they have (including zero!). How many different types are there, and are there a lot that are the same type?
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\nNow try sorting things by size! How much bigger is the biggest thing compared to the smallest thing?
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\nWhat other ideas can you come up with?\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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Want more at-home fun creating cool stuff and making beautiful things? Check out more\u00a0Maker Monday projects right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Do you have an idea for a Maker Monday craft project? If so, please share it with Kidsburgh! Send your maker activities to\u00a0info@kidsburgh.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Kidsburgh families. We\u2019re glad to share this \u201cLet\u2019s Try\u201d Maker Monday activity, courtesy of our creative friends…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24174,40219,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-128015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-childrens-museum-of-pittsburgh","tag-maker-monday","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}