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
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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
I love these ideas!
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Great ideas here, we had a few books that focused on colours too. I think just pointing out the colours of things often in every day help likes a lot.
wow. Do you think because the boys sister always answered for him it delayed his learning? #kidsandkreativity
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
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
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
Bringing colours into something that captures imagination is always the best way to learn. #TriedTested
Learning colours as part of another activity kids enjoy sounds like the best way to make learning fun #TwinklyTuesday
Linking up again for #DreamTeam. Thought of your post this morning as we passed that pink car!
Linking up again for #DreamTeam
I did all these things with my boys too. Great way of learning colours. Thanks for linking to #pocolo
Watching my niece learn her letters was a joy, each time she got one right she would be ecstatic! #DreamTeam
Great tips, thank you. Thanks for linking up with #itsok
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.
I like your ideas, great way of helping children understand colour X #anythinggoes