Color matching activity

We're going on a road trip soon and we will be in the car for a long time. We're really hoping that Kaylin will be able to ride for 3 hours without a break, we'll see how it goes. She can normally get to Bellingham and back pretty well, but this last time she cried the last 20-30 minutes there and whined another hour or so home. It's just under 2 hours each way. I have been gathering ideas for activities to do in the car. My grandparents got her a cool tray for her carseat and I'm hoping she'll be able to color and play on it. I got an idea for a color matching activity from one of my favorite blogs. I tweaked it a little bit to work better for Kaylin.

I grabbed a pair of a few different paint chips and cut one of them up into the individual colors. I put magnets* on the back of the individual colors. The idea is to match the colors, it's kind of hard because the shades are so similar. I like that it teaches that there are different shades of the same color. Kaylin always tells me that anything that is dark pink is red. She is very adament about this. I'm hoping this game will help :-).

I thought I'd try it out. I put one strip on a cookie sheet and let Kaylin go at it. She got half of them right. I put a second strip on, and once again she got half right. Then she wanted all of them on. That was a little overwhelming and she didn't even try to match those ones up. But she loved it. She was so excited the whole time.

*For the magnets I used magnetic business cards that came with one of our phone books. I cut each one into 6 pieces and then used a glue stick to attach the paint chip piece. Total cost of this activity: FREE. Well, unless you want to count the little bit of glue I used and the wear on my paper cutter and scissors ;-).