Things You'll Need:
- Laundry Hampers
- dirty laundry to sort
- children to sort laundry
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Step 1
Explain to the children that it's laundry sorting time. Have the children help round up all of the laundry hampers from the house. If they have a color-sorting hamper in their closet then you can just use that.
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Step 2
Tell children that each hamper or compartment is for a different kind of clothes. White socks, sheets and underpants might all go into one place whereas denim blue jeans or red dresses might go into other hampers.
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Step 3
Explain to the children that each kind of clothing is washed with a different water temperature. If you can identify an item that's been damaged by incorrect washing, now would be a good time to illustrate the principle with an example. If an item is several colors, be sure to explain your reason for choosing the correct hamper.
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Step 4
Try keeping laundry sorted each day by using compartmentalized laundry hampers. Sorting clothes as they're removed makes it much easier to do a load of laundry without searching through multiple laundry hampers to find enough of one color to wash.
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Step 5
Rejoice! Once children understand how to sort laundry, you can begin to teach them how to load and operate the washing machine.
