Kate's Color Clips

I recently saw a cute color clip idea that promotes matching and learning shades of colors in addition to just learning the color.  For example, you know what color purple is, but do you know what color light purple is and what dark purple is?!  Exactly.  Since Kate already knows all of her colors really well, I thought it would be good to take our color learning to the next level!  And so this prompted our color clips!

I picked out two sets of colors to see which would work better.

I ended up selecting the light set of colors because I thought they
showed more of a contrast.  Also because there were three color
choices which would allow me to say LIGHT PINK, PINK, and
DARK PINK if we ever decided to label them.

I cut small strips from both sides of the color swatches to get these
little strips of color.

Kate was so intrigued by the paper cutter!

So, much to Brian's dismay, I let her have a go.
She's gotta learn sometime, right?  And she was under
complete supervision.

She did such a good job!

And then we decided to fling all of our newly cut bits and pieces
of paper on the floor.

Nothing that a broom won't fix!

While paper was being strewn across the floor, and
the paper cutter was put away, I cut two small strips of
color for each side of the clothes pin.

And then I hot glued them to the clothes pins!

Put that process on repeat and you've got yourselves a complete
set of color clips!

I ended up laminating ours with some laminating paper we had
lying around.  I thought the lamination finished these off quite nicely
and my hope is they last longer too!

We have yet to officially learn with these color clips, but I will be sure to let you know if they are a hit or miss in our household once we do!