Color Arranging

I've seen this color arranging activity on several blogs and I've been wanting to do it with the boys for a while. I finally made a trip to Home Depot and got the supplies and made it.

First I picked out which colors I wanted to use. I chose purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and pink (I would have chosen red instead of pink, but they didn't have red).

Then I used my paper cuter to cut them all into 1.5 inch strips and cut the paint descriptions off the end.
Then I cut them apart and cut off the little white segments in between.
Then I numbered the backs so that the boys could self check once they arranged them.
I explained to the boys that I would let them pick which color they wanted to work with and that they would arrange them from darkest to lightest. I showed them once with the pink color and then chose a color (Seth chose blue and Wyatt chose yellow) and they got to work.
Wyatt got them all right except the last two and honestly the last two are almost identical. I told him he did a fantastic job. After that he chose orange and he got them all right. Wyatt did a great job with the self check so I didn't have to help him to see if he got it all correct.
I had to help Seth by reminding him what they object was. I would say, "which one is the darkest?" and he would say, "this one," and so I would tell him to take it and he would. Then I would say, "which one is the next darkest," and he would say, "this one" and I'd have to tell him to take it and he would. We worked like that to get the project done, but he got them all right and then did it again with purple and got them all right, but two.

I'm really happy with this project and we'll definitely be adding it to our "school" work rotation. I also love that I was able to make it on my own for FREE!!