Picture Courtesy Flickr - Andrea Marutti

1. Place an empty tub or bucket, and sit with your preschooler a few feet away. Roll up colored socks and see who can aim socks into the bucket.
2. Fill each sock with shredded paper, leaves, sand, pebbles etc., and see which ones are heavier. Then, let her measure the exact weight on your weighing scale and note down the measurement.
3. Fill a sock halfway with sand, cut a hole in the end, and let her use the falling sand to draw on the ground – alphabets, numbers, patterns, shapes etc.
4. Lay out some sand in the yard, and fill a sock with some. Roll up the top into a knot and let her use her new “sock dozer” to make roads in the sand.
5. Sort into coloreds and whites.  Sort by family members.
6. Count a number of socks individually. Then, let her match them up into pairs, and count the pairs.
7. Place small objects inside a large sock – pebbles, leaves - let her put her hand inside, feel around and guess what the object is.
8. Paint a pair of eyes, and use as a sock puppet.

Enjoy!