Color Sort — Plan-Ahead Sorting Puzzle for Kids

Color Sort

For parents

What this teaches

Color Sort is a pouring puzzle your child solves on a rainbow gola cart. Bottles start with their bright syrups all mixed up, and the goal is simple: pour colors from bottle to bottle until each one holds just a single color. Only matching colors can stack, so a child has to think a few pours ahead — pour the wrong one and a bottle gets stuck. There's no clock and no way to lose: tap undo or add a spare bottle and keep going. When a bottle fills with one color, its cork pops on with a happy little bounce — the reward that keeps kids pouring. Easy first batches teach the rule one pour at a time, then the cart fills with more colors and fewer spare bottles, so the climb never runs out.

Age: Best for ages 5-8

How to play

Tap a bottle to pick it up.
Tap another bottle to pour the top color.
Colors only stack on the same color.
Make every bottle one color to win!

What to watch for

Watch whether your child pauses to look at the whole cart before pouring, or pours and then undoes. Both are real planning — the goal is noticing which pour traps them before they commit.

Concepts covered

planning a sequence of moves ahead
sorting and grouping by color
the rule that only matching colors stack
self-correction with undo, without penalty