Clothespin Games

I mentioned these games when we first made them; I'm bringing them back with a couple of ideas of how to use them.

First, we have our set of clothespins numbered 1-12, and two strips of cardstock with sets of dots.  The goal is to match the clothsepin with the corresponding number of dots.  Today I gave on strip to Lily and one to Jack, piled all of the clothespins in the middle, and their goal was to find their clothespins and pin them.  Not "first"--we weren't making it a contest, and they helped each other find their clothespins.  

 
Next we took our set of alphabet letter clothsepins  and piled them in the middle of the table.  I gave each child a sight work, and he or she had to find all of their letters and pin them to the word card.  They worked together on this one, too ("I need R!  Where is R?!") and it was a fun game.  They actually kept playing for a while without me, though they like me helping to find the clothespins.

Happy with both of these games!