Do you have a little one at home that is learning colors and numbers? This game is a fun farming spin on a color and number sorting game. There are two ways to play this game: either sort all the pig tails to their matching color OR put the same number of tails on the pig to match the number.
Find a helpful how-to video below:
Materials
- Pipe cleaners (two per color of at least four different colors)
- Kitchen shears or scissors
- Snack size baggie
- Paper (one background page plus a paper in colors to match your pipe cleaners)
- A pig shape to trace (optional)
- Marker
- Glue
Instructions
- Using your marker or a finger (something round), twist your pipe cleaner into a coil shape.
- Once you have a coil, use your wire cutter to cut the coil in to half. These will be your pig tails! Put all tail pieces in a snack size baggie for storage.
- Using your marker and pig shape, trace a pig in each color paper to match your pipe cleaners.
- Glue your pigs on your background paper.
- Use your marker to number your pigs one to four.
- Get ready to play! You can play this game in two ways:
- Color matching: match all the tails in the bag to the correct color pig.
- Number matching: place one tail on the pig with the number “1” on it, two tails on the pig with the number “2”, etc.
Make-It Monday projects were posted in 2020 while we were closed for COVID-19. While we are open to the public again, we left these resources online for others to use. For a full list of previous projects, visit Make-It Monday.
Questions? Contact Sarah, the museum's education coordinator.