Dear Reader,
I found these little counting muffins on Zulily and I’ve had my eye on them for a while so I couldn’t resist getting them for $10 cheaper, so I splurged. You’ll probably be seeing them a lot because there are lots of ways to use them. Since this was my girls first time seeing them I mostly just let them play with them, but since my toddlers are getting pretty excited about colors lately (it’s starting to click), we also used the time to focus on colors! I asked them to sort the muffins by colors. “Can we find all the red muffins? Let’s put the red muffins in this tin.”
They’re also a good size for little fingers to pincer grasp practice. And they’re are enough of them that my girls don’t fight over them, which is definitely a thing lately.
I mean, you can use anything and a muffin tin to sort colors (and we have), but these little muffins were fun, too. And they spark imaginative play, too because they’re muffins! There was lots of pretend eating happening while we sorted the colors (make sure your kids stick to pretend eating! They definitely don’t pass the toilet-paper-tube-test).
Age Range
toddler
Prep Required
on the fly
Time Needed
15 minutes
Supervision
9/10
(choking hazard + teaching time)
