Teaching colours to your toddler does not have to feel like a chore to them or you. It should be fun, exciting and simple—as that is the best way kids learn. If you are looking for exciting ways to teach colours to your preschooler—check out these fun activities!
For preschoolers, it is a significant milestone to learn about and identify the seven basic colours that can be spotted in a rainbow—it is an essential part of their cognitive development. However, teaching them colours is a moderately complex task.
Through colour matching and recognition activities, toddlers can learn to distinguish between basic colours, identify patterns, and improve visual-spatial awareness. Various colour learning activities can help your little one foster problem-solving and creative thinking skills as they indulge in imaginative play throughout kindergarten years and beyond.
Get seven bowls with water in them—and add a few drops of food colour into each bowl. Place all the bowls in front of your little one, and ask them to identify the different colours in the bowls.
After helping them identify the seven basic colours in the bowls, give your toddler a spoon or use an eyedropper to collect and transfer water from one bowl to another, allowing them to discover what happens when two or more colours are mixed.
This fun activity will keep your child entertained for quite a long time, offering many opportunities to discuss what happens when various colours are mixed.
Place some newspaper on the table to secure the surface from spills. Next, place a blank piece of paper over it. Allow your preschooler to dip their fingers in some bright poster colours and ask them to create pictures using their fingers.
You may only use red, blue and yellow (the primary colours) and ask your toddler to mix them, to create the secondary colours (green, purple and orange). While your junior Picasso is engaged in this fun colouring activity, discuss more about the colours they are currently using. Tell them what colours they have on their fingers and what colour is formed after blending two colours together. After they have completed their artwork, allow them to explain what they created. Encourage your toddler to use colour names while they are describing their painting to you.
Get a few plastic baskets from the store and purchase plastic balls in coordinating colours. Place the baskets some feet away from your little one, and keep the plastic balls in a bucket next to them.
Say a colour name and ask your toddler to pick the correct ball from the bucket and toss it into the corresponding basket. If your child does not recognize all the colours yet—you can help them locate the balls and the corresponding basket.
A brilliant way to teach colour recognition is to work on a single colour at a time. Pick a new colour every week, and make every activity from that week to be associated with the chosen colour. For instance, if the chosen colour is yellow, you can make them wear clothes in that colour, eat yellow foods, or even go for an evening stroll and ask them to identify things in that colour.
Take a bowl and place buttons or wooden beads in many different colours. Then, ask your child to sort them based on their colours. This captivity is quite engaging, simple and very useful.
Almost every child enjoys colouring. Using crayons to fill colours in drawings can help your preschooler achieve multiple purposes. This activity will not just enable you to discuss different colours with your child— but also help them develop fine motor skills. You may even print out numbers and letter shapes and ask your toddler to colour them—enabling them to simultaneously recognize numbers and alphabets.
Many toddlers can identify colours even before attaining preschool age. The most important aspect is to offer kids the opportunity to learn more through their regular activities, making the learning process fun and natural.
