Helping your toddler learn about colors
Preschoolers are an interesting age group. Their little minds are sharp and quick in learning, but their attention spans are short! If you want your preschooler to remember any learned activity and pieces of information, you need to re-emphasize them frequently. This is true with teaching colors to preschoolers as well.
Teaching your child the colors of the rainbow is an important part of childhood learning and it is also delightful to watch them associate each word with a color. The important thing is to make it fun.
Here are some ideas to make learning the colors fun for you and your toddler:
Make the bath a different color every week - so you have red week, blue week and so on. During your child’s nightly bath, add a couple of drops of food coloring to the bathwater. Talk to your child about each color and name other items you see that are the same colors.
Color theme their food too. During one week point out only all the food that is green such as peas and broccoli - next week, highlight red food such as strawberries and apples. During yellow week make a fuss about yellow sweetcorn or lemons.
Buy a box of crayons and a coloring book, and spend time drawing and coloring with your child. If you have access to the internet and a printer, there are many online coloring pages that will cost you nothing at all. Little girls love images of fairies or princessesrs while little boys may enjoy pictures of trucks and cars . Both genders will enjoy characters that are unisex such as Spongebob Squarepants for example and at sites like Spongebob Coloring Pages you’ll find the best coloring pictures of Spongebob
In fact, Spongebob is a great character to use to teach the color yellow!Use coloring in together as an opportunity to talk about the red car or indeed the Yellow Spongebob…
Some young children are naturally talented when it comes to learning colors. They may have a flare towards painting, coloring or drawing and, thus, colors are something that they will get the hang of quickly. Although some kids learn their colors very quickly, it is a fact that almost all kids are extremely interested in colors…. which makes the task of teaching colors - quite an easy one after all…
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