Fast and Easy Centers with Clothes Pins

Hi everyone! This is Shelley Gray from Teaching in the Early Years. A couple of weeks ago I was reading a blog post on I Can Teach My Child in which the author created an uppercase/lowercase matching activity using clothes pins. I thought this was genius, and began thinking of all the other ways that clothes pins could be used to create engaging, hands-on center activities.

There are SO many ways that you could use this. I immediately thought of this activity, in which students can match the addition or subtraction equation on the clothes pin to the sum/difference on the paper (by the way, you can download this activity for free by clicking on any of the pictures below!)

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There are many, many math concepts that this could be used for, but some ideas for other subject areas are:

• matching synonyms or antonyms
• matching capital cities to the state/province
• matching foods to the appropriate food group
• matching words to the appropriate part of speech (noun, adjective, verb)

So there you have it! Stock up on clothes pins and get creating! And don't forget to download the free "Equations to 24 Math Center" by visiting my Teachers Pay Teachers store.

Have a great day!