Step 1: Watch the read-aloud story ‘The Button Box’ (featured video)
For the follow-up activity, children can either use a handful of real buttons, cut out buttons (click HERE) or else make playdough buttons of different shapes and colours with 2 or 4 holes in them.
Step 2: Following the story, tell your child that today you are going to sort buttons in sets. Explain to your child what is meant by sorting (putting things which are alike together).
Children are encouraged to look closely at the buttons and decide how to sort buttons in groups according to a particular attribute (shape, size, colour, number of holes). Children need to justify their decision and label their sets.
Step 3: Prompt children to keep on sorting buttons using different criteria all the time.
Step 4: Carry out any of the online sorting games Click here