Sort Clothes for Hot and Cold

💡 About this activity

🎯 Learning objectives

• Sort clothing pictures into two groups with help.
• Point to or name some items of clothing.
• Connect an item of clothing to cold or hot weather through gestures or words.

🧺 What you need

• Printed activity sheet
• Scissors for adult use

👣 How to do it

1. Before inviting the child to play, cut out the eight pictures, keeping the two columns intact.
2. Show the columns and say, “This one is for cold days; this one is for hot days.”
3. Choose four pictures, including clothes for both kinds of weather.
4. Show one picture and place it in the matching column.
5. Invite the child to place the other pictures, helping as needed.
6. Introduce the remaining four pictures a few at a time and keep playing.
7. When you finish, look at the columns and name the clothes together.

🍎 Teaching suggestions

• Name each item and give the child time to point, speak or gesture.
• If choosing is difficult, offer two pictures at a time and show where to place one.
• Connect the pictures to clothes the child wears: “Do you know a T-shirt like this?”
• Welcome other choices: what people wear in cold or hot weather can vary by person and place.

🔀 Variations

💬 Talk about it

• Which of these clothes do you know?
• What do you like to wear when it's cold?
• What do you like to wear when it's hot?
• What is the clothing you chose like?

👀 What to look for

• Notice whether the child places pictures in both columns, with or without help.
• Notice whether the child points to or names any items.
• Look for a gesture or words connecting an item to cold or hot weather.