| Bring out several different pairs of shoes and mix them up in a pile. Can you find the mate to each shoe? Do you have shoes from different people in your family? You could arrange them according to size. Or you may want to arrange them according to the different people in your family…or by color. You might even want to play "shoe store" with the shoes.
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 | Matching games give children a way to practice careful looking. One of the early steps in learning to read is the ability to see similarities and differences in the letters of the alphabet. Preschoolers can also be fascinated with matching games because they're just learning about the world around them, and in order to make some sense of all there is, they work on classifying things into different categories.
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