Sorting Laundry by Color and Size

A basket of clean laundry (include items from the whole family)

Floor space for making sorting piles

Dump the laundry basket on the floor together.

Announce the rule: "Let's sort by COLOR! All the blue clothes go here."

Demonstrate: pick up a blue shirt and place it. "This is blue — it goes here!"

Let your child hunt for blue items. Celebrate each match.

Do other colors: red pile, white pile, dark pile.

Switch the rule: "Now sort by PERSON. Whose shirt is this — Daddy's or baby's?"

Count each pile: "Daddy has seven! How many does baby have?"

Start with one sorting rule. Introducing multiple rules at once is confusing.

Size sorting is especially fun with a big family. Hold up a tiny baby sock next to a parent's sock — the contrast is hilarious and educational.

Let your child deliver sorted piles to each person's room. The follow-through teaches responsibility.

Sock matching is a great sub-activity — finding matching pairs is a visual discrimination challenge.

This naturally becomes a weekly routine. Toddlers who "help with laundry" at 2 often genuinely help by 4.