The dreaded odd sock basket, we have a love hate relationship. I usually put the kids to the task of matching them up and I pay a nickel per matched pair. My oldest daughter was really great at this, but we found out the boys just fold socks together whether they match or not. Dad was not too happy about this after multiple attempts at trying to find a matched pair in in his drawer.
I am always trying to come up with fun ways to deal with laundry and the sock basket is no exception. This morning we had a blast sorting and matching socks. Over the weekend I had done marathon laundry. I kept washing and folding but didn't match the socks, they were just put in the basket.
This morning I brought the kids into the living room and we "math" matched the socks. What a blast. All of the kids ages 2-10 helped and played the math games. We did fractions and addition, we multiplied and their personal favorite divisibility. They had such fun making small piles of socks to see how many groups of 4 go into 40, and so on...
They really didn't think of it as math and only my oldest said it was just a "tricky way of getting the socks matched". Well no matter what is was it accomplished two tasks at once and neither one felt like a chore. It was a win-win situation!
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