Kid fix! Colors uncoded for easier laundry sorting

Color wheel Clark + Kensington laundry sorting

Laundry sorting by color doesn’t come naturally to everyone. Here’s an easy solution that’s helped us.

Color wheel Clark + Kensington laundry sortingWe try our best to give our kids the life skills they need to be fully capable grown-ups. Sometimes lightbulbs click-on, sometimes fireworks burst, and other times it’s like there’s a constant breeze on a little flickering candle.

Here is a typical laundry sorting experience before I had my breakthrough idea.

12-year-old Lexi: Is this a light or dark?

12-year-old Lexi: Is this a light or dark?

12-year-old Lexi: Is this a light or dark?

….Repeat conversation 30 more times.

Ok. When one of our kids asks the same question over and over, it’s time to find a different method to teach the concept. And it’s not just having them ask the other parent.

That’s when I stumbled upon the connection between my paint color book and our 12-year-old’s pile of laundry. All of the colors are graduated from dark to light, a perfect tool to help solve our laundry sorting problem.

“All of the colors on the outside of the wheel are lights, and all of the inside colors are darks,” I explained.

Lightbulbs went off all over her brain.

And that was the last time I was asked to help sort her laundry.

 

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