Items Needed: Large Grab Bag of Seashells, Sectioned Box, BowlWe have a wooden box from Hobby Lobby that is sectioned into eight squares. In each square I place a specific type of shell. The child then has a bowl of shells that contain 5-10 matches to eight various types of seashells (example: scallop, cockle, murex, snail, horn, etc) that have been placed in their respective slots. The bowl the child has before them may contain about 50 shells to match. The task for the child is to focus their attention on the shape and style of a seashell, while ignoring variations in color or size, matching the shells from the bowl into the correct bins.
It may be necessary to stress that the child is only to look at the shape of the shell, and not sort on color or size.
This exercise has been performed throughout our Fish and Crustacean study and it is one that my children never tire from performing.
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