Materials Needed: 10 clean big baby food jars, spray primer, cheap white, blue, and red acrylic paint, cotton balls, stickers, about $3 in pennies.
1. Spray the lids and inside of the dry baby food jars with primer and allow to dry.
2. Pour white acrylic paint in jars and turn to coat. Drain and dry. (They don’t have to be perfect just mostly opaque.)
3. Paint lids, five red, five white.
4. Line dry jars with cotton balls and place pennies inside in matching pairs of jars. I did two of each. I think I did: empty, 10, 25, 35, 50.
5. Cap pairs, one red and one blue.
6. Put matching stickers on the bottoms.
To set up the center, I put them on Dollar Tree cookie sheets, lined with foam.
1. Ask child to come see what you have.
2. Line up the blue jars at the top of the tray.
3. Pull one jar out and test all of the red ones against it.
4. Put that pair aside.
5. Continue with steps 3 & 4 until all jars are matched.
6. Turn them over to check your work.
7. Gently place them back on the tray, mixing them up so it will be fun for the next person.
