Kid fix! Colors uncoded for easier laundry sorting

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

We 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.