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!

Dot/Number matching

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More fun with clothespins! I love how it helps with fine motor skill practice and dexterity while giving the kids time with math work. They are LOVING clothespins!  


For this activity, I just used a piece of card stock and drew 10 rectangles, and then drew numbers 1-10 on clothespins.  The original post had the dots (or snowflakes) in a circle divided in ten pie pieces, but I decided to make it a little easier but just using the rectangular shape.  

The only negative was that some of the clothespins were upside down when you pinned them on, so I ended up cutting this down the center lengthwise.  Now I have two strips and all of the clothespin numbers are right-side-up.