Colour Recognition

October 4, 2018 Karen 16 comments
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Helping or encouraging your child to learn her colours, should  be both fun and light hearted.

My eldest son, learnt his colours from playing with his toy cars, he would ask me, “What colour is this one, mummy?”

He learnt very quickly and I remember when we were in the library and he referred to the librarian as the green lady, because she was wearing a green top.

I always discussed colour with my child minded children at every opportunity  , e.g. if we were painting or colouring together, I would say , “I’m colouring the grass green.”and so on.

All my children could still tell you now, that my favourite colour is purple (because of the chocolate wrapper (of a certain brand of chocolate!)

I had one child, in my care, who was a little slow to learn, the problem was that if I asked him to name a colour, his younger sister would tell me first. I over came this, by showing him a crayon and asking if he could find me another in the same colour. When he did this, I would say ” Clever boy, now you have two red crayons.”

I also sometimes played a colour version of the i spy game e.g ” I spy something that is blue”

My granddaughter learnt her colours and (shapes and numbers), by watching you tube clips on her mums phone. She also likes to line up her skittle sweets into colour rows to make a rainbow.

Point out colours to your child, when you are out, you could use traffic lights, as a starter and when walking together, talk about colours of front doors ( and door numbers too). Colours of cars can also be discussed. My great aunt, who was in her nineties once mentioned that you never see a pink car!

Remember to always make learning fun.

 

 

If reading my blog has given you an interest in child minding you may like to read my e book, also called the next best thing to mummy

.As always comments/questions are very welcome. I always answer questions.

Karen

16 Comments on “Colour Recognition”

  1. Some good ways to encourage colour recognition here! My son was the same with toy cars, we used to have long lines of colour co-ordinated cars all over the living room! We do the same thing with bowls of sweets with my youngest and she loves playing color eye-spy! #KidsandKreativity

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    1. I’m not entirely sure if that delayed his learning, but he was definitely a little slower than the average child, but then all children are individuals and so learn diffently, at different speeds, he caught up eventually, thanks for your comment and question, hope I have answered it thoroughly enough x

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  5. Great tips here. I used cars (and duplo bricks) too, as well as observing colours when out and about. We used to play i-spy colours when our middle son was too young to understand letters but our older son was keen to play games in the car. Thank you very much for linking up with #Blogstravaganza

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  6. Great ideas here – my two year old loves pointing out the colours of doors as we go anywhere. And funnily enough there is a pink Fiat 500 for sale just down the road from us that we see every day. #anythinggoes

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  14. Great ideas to introduce colours to children early. We played i-spy using colours until the kids started school, now it’s back to words to help with their spelling. Thanks for linking up with #KidsandKreativity, hope to see you next time.

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