Sorting Colors

Here’s how we taught Mikey to sort lights from darks to do his laundry! We gave him two laminated pages. One had the word “lights” on it with photo examples of clothing Mikey might wear that would qualify as light colors.

Pardon our laundry room floors; our laundry room is also our doggie room where they eat and dry off after they go out and play in the mud. That floor is rarely very clean.

We have another visual aid for darks.

The laminated pages get laid out on our laundry room floor. Mikey takes clothing from his hamper, one piece at a time, and chooses light or dark. 

If This Skill is Too Hard

You can get through life without sorting laundry.  They sell sheets called ‘Color Catchers’ which you put into the washing machine and the sheet absorbs dye in the water so it doesn’t color your lighter clothing.  I just felt Michael could learn how to sort so we went for it. If this doesn’t work for your child, use the color catchers…no stress.

For tips on starting to have your child help with laundry, click the link below.