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Shoe Trail

Find all the shoes in your house, then build a shoe trail with your child. Can she identify all the red shoes?
By: Trish Kuffner, author of The Preschooler's Busy Book

Shoe Trail


Materials

  • Empty laundry basket
  • Shoes

Directions

  1. Give your child a laundry basket and have her fill it with shoes.
  2. Make a trail of shoes around the house, lining them up heel to toe.
  3. Follow the trail, counting as you go.
  4. Keep a list, and have your child count how many shoes each person has, or how many shoes of each color there are, or how many shoes there are in total.
  5. Help your child put the shoes away when she is done.

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