Button Sorting Mats EYFS/Pre-K, Year 1/K

**Printable mats in beautiful colours to encourage sorting buttons by colour in adult-led activities and to enhance a maths area in continuous provision. **

Buttons in varied shades of each colour are illustrated with photographs to encourage thinking skills through discrimination and discussion.
There is even a ‘Special Buttons’ mat as a place to keep the buttons which particularly attract the children’s attention. This provides a great opportunity for discussion of the properties of ‘special’ buttons and as a starting point for looking for items to be part of a collection based on different criteria.

• A4 mats in lovely shades to suit all environments
• Photographs of buttons for each colour
• Primary colours
• Secondary colours
• Silver, gold and multicoloured
• A ‘Special Buttons’ mat for the unique and appealing buttons
• Editable PowerPoint

How to use this resource

These sorting mats provide a great tool when working on sorting, counting, and comparing groups in adult-led activities. In continuous provision they will support children to explore buttons whilst developing their mathematical skills.

• Print and laminate to provide A4 mats
• Sort buttons with children in adult-led group work
• Discuss colours
• Extend by discussing the number of holes in each button, the shapes, and sizes.
• Mats are large enough to line-up sorted buttons facilitating early counting skills and comparing groups
• Save as a PDF and print smaller
• Leave mats with buttons in continuous provision
• As it is an editable PowerPoint you can use the illustrations to create labels for your maths shelves