Recycled bottle caps; the Olympic rings and a classic toddler activity rolled into one fun morning of play and learning. Â Kids love simple activities, and I love using items that I have laying around our home. Â Making this simple Olympic ring bottle cap color sort activity a sure hit. Â Whew! Â Did I really just jam all that in one sentence? Â It must be all the coffee I am drinking to stay warm;)
I save all our bottle caps (especially the colorful ones), for time just like this. Â I have an ever growing stash that is taking over a corner in our basement. Â I have even enlisted a few of my dearest friends to save their bottle caps for me as well.
Anyway, as I dug through my bottle cap stash, I came up with some interesting statistics. Â Ready for it? Â In our house (and my enlisted friends homes)…
- We drink approximately 10 blue capped beverages to ever 1 red capped beverage.
- I also discovered that yellow capped beverages are preferred over black capped beverages.
- and finally, I am convinced that no one likes the green capped beverages because I only scrounged up 3 (the rest are apple sauce caps).
If there are any beverage marketers reading out there, make sure you cap your beverage in blue. Â It is clearly the cap of choice;)
Since this is an Olympic Color Sort event, I could not let the kids sit at the table and sort quietly.
So instead, we pushed the table to the side and geared up for a fun morning of running. The addition of movement to our simple activity, make it twice as exciting for the kids. Â I honestly haven’t heard this much giggling and excitement over a few colors in a long time.
PS if you are looking for a fun way to count down to the Olympics, check out our Fun Fact Olympic Paper Chain (with free PDF).
Instead of an individual Olympic event; this is a team challenge.
The event was held in our living room, where hidden bottle caps were waiting to be discovered. Â The kiddos raced around in search of the colorful caps. Â Once they found one, they ran back and placed it on the matching colored Olympic ring. Â They were working together to beat the clock. Â The event was complete once all the caps were found and correctly placed on the corresponding ring before the 2 minute timer beeped. Â The kids LOVED it!
The kids loved working on color recognition, team work, problem solving skills and so much more. Â Ok really, the kids really had no idea they were learning all those things, but that’s what makes it a successful activity right? Â It was a hit because of all the giggles and that they had no idea that they were learning. Â Love it!
I left the bottle caps out, and look what the kids discovered all on their own.
Beautiful child lead towers. Â The caps were a little tricky to stack, but the kids were determined to create the tallest tower.
These kids truly are Olympic athletes. We love the Olympics.  Here are a few of our favorite Olympic activities.
Count down to the Olympics with our Fun Olympic Fact Paper Chain.
I love the star burst effect of these iconic rings in this simple Olympic Ring Art.
 Easy projects are always a hit, and our Olympic Ring Painting is one of the easiest.
Hosting an Olympic party?  Check out our 10 fun Olympic activities for kids.
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