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Paper Plate Color Match Activity

This simple Paper Plate Color Match Activity is perfect for toddlers or preschoolers. They can develop fine motor skills and practice some color matching at the same time.

Clipping clothespins onto paper plates is a fantastic fine motor activity. It really requires strong and steady fingers to get it right.

With a few supplies, which you probably already have at home, you can make this super easy puzzle in 10 minutes or less.

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Learn how to make this Paper Plate Color Match Activity in less than 10 minutes. Toddlers and preschoolers will love matching colors as they develop fine motor skills. This easy DIY puzzle is a fantastic busy bag or quiet time activity for kids.
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Color Activities for Kids

To help your toddlers and preschoolers learn their colors, try some of these other color play ideas.

  1. Walking Water STEM Activity for Kids
  2. Color Wheel Art for Kids
  3. Color Match and Clip Cards
  4. Taste-Safe rainbow spaghetti
  5. magnetic color sort puzzle
  6. Easy Paper Plate Rainbow Craft
  7. Color Matching Flowers

For more ideas, check out this list of 25 Color Crafts and Activities for Kids

Materials Needed

1. Paper Plate
2. Wooden Clothespins
3. Sharpie Pens in a variety of colors

I can’t get enough of Sharpie Pens. I use them for a lot of different projects with my kids. The fact that they can draw on anything is amazing.

It now means that instead of using paint for a lot of activities, I can just use Sharpie Pens instead. It makes it so much easier to prepare an activity if I don’t have to worry about paint getting everywhere.

This paper plate color match activity took me 10 minutes to make. I didn’t have to wait for it to dry, and I didn’t have a huge mess to clean up afterward. I can’t thank Sharpies enough for making my life easier.


How to Make a Paper Plate Color Match Activity

Learn how to make this Paper Plate Color Match Activity in less than 10 minutes. Toddlers and preschoolers will love matching colors as they develop fine motor skills. This easy DIY puzzle is a fantastic busy bag or quiet time activity for kids.

Step 1: Separate the border of the paper plate into sections. (Like in the picture above)

2. Color in these sections with different colored Sharpie Pens.

3. Color in the tips of your clothespins in the same color of sharpie pens.

4. Match the colors and clip the clothespin onto the corresponding section of colored paper plate.

Helpful tip: Color both sides of the clothespin with the SAME color.

I made the mistake of coloring the two sides of the clothespin in different colors.

My son found this very frustrating because he would match a color, then flip his hand over to clip it.

As a result, he would have the opposite side facing upwards and get frustrated.

The End Result

In the end (after I fixed my coloring mistake), this activity was a huge success.

I’ve placed it in one of the folders I use for my busy bags. My kids can take it out and play (or fight) over it as much as they want.

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Learn how to make this Paper Plate Color Match Activity in less than 10 minutes. Toddlers and preschoolers will love matching colors as they develop fine motor skills. This easy DIY puzzle is a fantastic busy bag or quiet time activity for kids.