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How To Help Your Young Child Learn Colors

What are some fun ways to teach colors for kids? If this is a question you’ve been asking yourself, you’ve come to the right place.

As a toddler or preschooler, your child has definitely noticed all the different hues in the world around them, but now it’s time to help them make sense of it all.

Fortunately, teaching your child colors doesn’t have to be an overwhelming task. As you will see below, this can be a fun and engaging learning experience for both you and your child.

With a bit of planning and creativity, your young learner will soon know all the colors of the rainbow and so much more!

Table of Contents

  • Why Is Learning Colors For Kids Important?
  • Tips To Keep In Mind
  • 10 Simple Activities To Teach Colors For Kids
  • Make Every Day A Colorful Day

Why Is Learning Colors For Kids Important?

Our world is made up of different shapes and colors. Cars, houses, flowers, trees, buses, fruits, tall city buildings…everything has its own unique visual characteristics.

Before they were even a year old, your child noticed these things, too, but of course, none of it made sense. Now that they are older, it’s time to start piecing together all the information from their environment.

Teaching your child colors will help them make sense of the world around them. But did you know that understanding colors can also impact language skills and overall learning?

It’s true! As your child begins to understand that words represent objects, they’ll also realize that some words can describe certain features of those objects.

For example, blue can describe the sky, a blueberry, and a blue crayon. As your child starts to use color words to describe the things around them, they are also building their vocabulary and becoming better communicators.

But language isn’t the only academic skill built through lessons on colors for kids. Perhaps the most surprising of all is how learning colors can help introduce children to basic math skills. How?

Remember that every time you introduce your young learner to a new color, their brain actively works to process the information. A lot of organizing, categorizing, and comparison takes place when sorting different colors and shapes.

Examining something and identifying attributes, such as color, is an essential skill for math. So, in the future, when they’re trying to tell if a shape is an octagon or a hexagon, they’ll use the same visual discrimination skills they learned when learning colors.

(Note: If your child seems to have trouble distinguishing colors, they may be color blind. Contrary to popular belief, that doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t see colors at all, but it can make school more difficult for them down the road [i.e., reading off a chalkboard].

If you suspect your child may be color blind, ask your child’s pediatrician or eye doctor about getting them tested.)

Now that you’re clear on all the incredible benefits of teaching colors for kids, you probably want to start helping your child master them!

Before we get started on that, here are some basic tips to keep in mind when practicing colors with your child.

Tips To Keep In Mind

It can be challenging to teach colors to a toddler simply because there are so many contrasting colors constantly around us.

Adding to that challenge is the fact that many different shades of one color exist. For example, there are several reds (think: maroon, crimson, scarlet, etc.), but they are all called “red.” This can be tricky for children learning colors.

Have no fear! We’re here to help. The following are some basic tips to keep in mind as you help your young learner understand colors.

1) Start With The Basics

Think about how we can quickly calculate our change after buying something at a store or spell a new word correctly after hearing it for the first time. This is possible because we understand the basics of math and the English language.

The same approach needs to be applied when teaching colors for kids. It’s best to start with the primary colors (red, blue, and yellow), and once your child gets comfortable with these, move on to other hues.

If you’re still in the primary colors stage, what simple efforts can you take to help emphasize these colors in your everyday life?

Here are a few examples:

  • When you’re having dinner — “Do you want to use this blue plate?”
  • When you’re taking the dog for a walk — “Look at that yellow car.”
  • When it’s time to play — Hand them only red, blue, and yellow objects. If they have building blocks, ask them to sort only the red, blue, and yellow blocks.

Once your child is familiar with their primary colors, you can move on to other basic colors, such as green, orange, purple, black, white, brown, and gray.

A great way to help children learn about colors is by interacting with them. We love this sensory game that lets kids practice naming colors and discover what happens when you combine them.

2) Choose Contrasting Colors For Kids

As we mentioned earlier, there are so many different colors in this world that sometimes children can find it challenging to tell them apart. It’s even more difficult when the colors are similar (e.g., red, maroon, orange, etc.).

For this reason, it’s best to first focus on the hues that are clearly distinguishable before introducing similar colors.

3) Help Them See Color Categories

Once you’re confident that your child knows their basic colors, you can start introducing similar colors (olive green, forest green, etc.). Most of these can be found in the world around you.

As explained, similar shades can be challenging to learn, so in the beginning, the focus shouldn’t be on having them learn all the different terms but, rather, exposing them to the idea of categories.

To help your child recognize the differences between shades, point out an object and name its color. Then, ask them to find other things that are the same color. For example, you could say, “This is a blue sock. Can you find me anything else that’s blue?”

When they find another blue object, talk about what you notice. For example, is the blue the same on both things, or are there differences? Is one lighter or darker than the other? Do either look like a brighter blue?

These simple conversations can help your child as they begin expanding their definition of the color blue.

4) Point Out The Connection Between Colors And Feelings

In English, colors aren’t only used to describe how something looks. We also use color terms to express our emotions.

For example, when we say somebody is “feeling blue,” they’re sad. Similarly, if someone is “seeing red,” they’re angry.

While you don’t need to detail the emotions associated with each color at this age, you can make your child aware that feelings and colors are connected.

They can start to use colors to express themselves, a skill that helps them better understand their emotions. This ability is one of the social-emotional topics your child can practice with the Learn with Sesame Street app, powered by HOMER.

10 Simple Activities To Teach Colors For Kids

Learning about colors can be a wonderful part of playtime with your child. To help your child practice their colors, use these engaging activities.

1) Colorful Necklace

Children are often curious and enjoy exploring different colors and materials. This means that when teaching them about colors, the more engaging the activity the better — like using colorful beads to create necklaces.

What You’ll Need:
  • Colorful beads (in primary colors)
  • Yarn or necklace string
What To Do:

After teaching your child the primary colors, try creating a red, blue, and yellow necklace. Tie a knot on one end of the string. Then, show your child how to string beads onto it.

This necklace can be in a pattern or not. It’s really up to you!

When creating the necklace, remember to name the colors you use and encourage your young learner to repeat them.

Note: While working with small items, it’s essential to use safe and non-toxic materials and keep an eye on your young child at all times.

2) Finger Painting

Engaging your child’s senses is one of the most effective ways to help them learn new concepts. That’s what makes finger painting so great for teaching colors!

What You’ll Need:
  • Finger paint (in primary colors)
  • Finger paint paper
  • Newspaper
What To Do

Put a few pieces of newspaper on your table to protect it from spills. Then, place your child’s finger painting paper on top.

Let them go to town using their fingers to create beautiful, colorful pictures. You can use the three primary colors in finger painting and mix them up to form secondary colors (purple, green, and orange).

During the activity, speak about the colors your child is using and the colors that are formed while mixing.

Once the painting is complete, let them tell you about what they created. Encourage them to use color words while they’re describing the artwork.



3) Same Objects, Different Colors

As you teach your child different colors, they may begin associating certain colors with specific objects. For example, if you show your child a red apple, they may associate the shape of the apple with red. 

It’s essential to show your child another color apple (e.g. a green one) so they understand that you’re referring to the color of the object, not the object itself. This activity helps you do just that.

What You’ll Need:
  • Two or more objects that are the same except for their color (such as apples, blocks, crayons, etc.)
What To Do:

Hand your child one of the objects and ask, “What color is this?” Once they answer, you can ask, “Are all (objects) this color?”

This will help them start thinking about colors in the world around them. If they aren’t sure, hand them the other object and ask them what it is. Reinforce that it’s the same type of thing as the first one, but it’s in a different color.

To help them further understand, sorting activities can be effective. For example, ask your child to sort the different colors of the same object (e.g., multi-color blocks).

As they get older, you can also encourage them to sort by the object, regardless of color. This will help your child continue developing skills of categorizing.

4) Read About Colors

There are lots of amazing children’s books that speak about colors. While reading to your child, be sure to point out all the colors in the book.

What You’ll Need:
  • Books about colors (use your favorite or see our recommendations below)
What To Do:

Grab a book about colors and read it aloud to your child. As you go through each page, talk about the colors you see. Then, you can ask your child to point to things that are different colors. For instance, you can say, “Do you see anything orange on this page?”

This teaches your child to scan the entire picture and focus on the details. As they look for one specific color, they’re practicing their visual discrimination skills, which they’ll use throughout their lives.

Here is a list of some incredible books that will help bring fun and entertainment into learning about colors:

  • Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
  • A Color of His Own
  • The Day the Crayons Quit
  • Baby, See the Colors!
  • What Makes a Rainbow?

However, don’t feel limited to reading only books about colors. You can talk about the different hues on the pages of any picture book.

5) Create A Color Mixing Sensory Activity

When your child uses their senses while they’re learning, they create stronger neural connections, and this helps them better remember the information.

This activity also gives your child a chance to explore colors creatively. It allows them to experiment and see what happens when combining two colors.

What You’ll Need:
  • Icing or shaving cream
  • Food coloring
  • Two small bows
  • Toothpick or spatula
  • Large zip-top bag and tape, or cookie sheet (The cookie sheet option is more tactile. However, you can opt for the bag if you’re looking for low-mess.)
What To Do:

Start by filling your zip-top bag with icing or shaving cream. Next, choose two colors of food coloring and add each color into the bag. Tape it down to a working surface. Your child will then need to mix the colors with their little fingers.

Grab the two small bowls and put icing or shaving cream into them. Add one to three drops of color into the bowl and fold the color into the icing or cream.

You can then scoop the colored icing or cream into the bag or onto the cookie sheet and let your child mix the colors.

This is a fun activity to help children learn that colors are not necessarily stagnant, and mixing them will help produce a different color.

See more details here!

6) Sing Color Songs

Kids love to sing along to fun songs. You can take advantage of this natural love for singing to help your child learn about colors. And the best part is that these silly songs are usually pretty catchy, so your child will likely sing them long after the activity ends.

What You’ll Need:
  • A way to play a song for your child to listen to (such as your phone or a computer)
What To Do:

Play a song for your child and start singing the lyrics. Then, repeat it a couple of times to help them learn how it goes.

Once they know the words, you can sing the song anywhere to review colors for kids on the go.

Not sure where to start? Check out our fun activity here that helps teach children pantone colors.

You can also sing some of our favorite songs:

  • “It’s Not Easy Being Green” by Kermit the Frog
  • “The Color Song” by Bryant Oden
  • “Colors of Our Clothes” by David Burba and Lisa Campbell
  • “Colors All Around” by Jack Hartmann
  • “Jenny Jenkins” by Lisa Loeb
  • PANTONE Colors: The Song

You can find these songs on YouTube, or search our Learn & Grow app. Happy singing!

7) I Spy Colors For Kids

This classic game is perfect for teaching colors to kids. Since it doesn’t require any materials, you can play it anywhere.

What You’ll Need: 
  • Nothing!
What To Do:

Look around you at all the different colors. Then, secretly pick out one object that only has one main color. Tell your child, “I spy something (insert color here). ”

For example, you might say, “I spy something blue,” if you’re looking at a blue shirt. If your child correctly guesses the object, then it’s their turn to pick the next thing and give a clue about its color.

8) Tell A Colorful Story

Encourage your child to use the magnets from the HOMER Explore Letters Kit creatively. Have them use the pieces to tell a story and remind them to add some color words to their telling.

What You’ll Need:
  • Explore Letters Kit from HOMER
What To Do:

Set up the magnetic story box so it’s ready to go. Go through the magnets and pick out a few that you could use to tell a fun story.

Using the pieces and the magnet backdrop, tell your child a story. As you speak, remember to weave some color words into the tale. For instance, you might say, “The bright pink flamingo decided he wanted to play ball with the brown monkey.”

You’re modeling the activity for your child as you tell a story. When you finish, let them tell a story of their own. You might notice they simply copy your story at first, and that’s okay.

Keep playing, and it won’t take long before your child can tell a story all their own.

9) Make A Picture

This activity is perfect for a rainy day. It’s a fun way for creative kids to practice making something with colorful paper strips.

What You’ll Need:
  • Construction paper in all sorts of colors
  • Scissors
  • Glue or tape
  • A white sheet of paper
What To Do:

If your child knows scissor safety skills, have them cut the construction paper into strips of different colors. (Otherwise, you cut them.) The strips can all be the same width, or you can mix them up.

Once you have a nice pile of colorful strips, invite your child to glue or tape them onto the white sheet of paper to create a design of their choice. When they are done, talk to them about their colorful picture and have them tell you all about what they created.

Mix things up the next time you do this activity by using circles, squares, or various shapes at once instead of strips.

10) Design A Color Scavenger Hunt

This activity is perfect for kids who love to move around. It’s also a great way to review all the different colors they’ve learned.

What You’ll Need:
  • A sheet of blank paper
  • Colored pencils or crayons
  • A pencil or pen
  • A basket or bag
What To Do:

Create a scavenger hunt for your child by drawing boxes on a blank sheet of paper with colored pencils or crayons. Fill in each box with the color it represents to make it easy for your child to identify it.

Quickly review the colors with your child. Point to each box on the sheet and have them tell you the color.

Then, challenge them to find an object around the house for each color. Once they find something, have them put it into the basket or bag. Next, show them how to use the pencil or pen to put an X or a check through the color box they found.

Have them continue searching for items until they have a basket or bag full of colorful objects. Take time to have them tell you the color of each thing they found.

Make Every Day A Colorful Day

Colors are all around us, and your child has most likely already noticed these different hues without tagging them with color names. However, colors for kids are an important part of childhood development and math prep.

This is where you come in. Armed with the activities above, you can help make learning about colors fun and exciting.

When teaching colors for kids, remember to start with the primary hues and then gradually introduce more. With patience, your young learner will soon recognize all the colors of the rainbow — and so many more!

For more fun learning activities, check out the Learn & Grow app, powered by HOMER.

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What Colors Help Children Learn?

Colors are everywhere. They are part of our language and our culture, and they are a big part of what we learn. In addition, they help determine how we learn. Not only do colors send signals to the brain to make us hungry or calm, but they also have the power to distract a child or enhance a child's learning potential.


For instance, young children are attracted to warm, bright colors, while elementary-aged children prefer tints and pastels. Middle school children enjoy colors like greens and blues, while high school students prefer darker colors like burgundy, gray, navy, dark green, and violet.

Although many homeschool families can't afford to redecorate their entire house, perhaps a fresh coat of paint may be in order as you consider these facts about the human body's response to color:

• Blue increases productivity. Cool hues cause the body to produce calming chemicals that actually slow down a person's heart rate, revealing the meaning behind the hospital term "cardiac blue."

• Red stimulates brain activity, often triggers hunger, and attracts attention. However, if overused, it can be very distracting. Red is known to increase one's heart rate.

• Green is very relaxing and is associated with nature, creativity, and fertile thinking.

• Yellow is a difficult color for the eye to see. It heightens concentration, but it also can be very overpowering. Children like it as infants, but they grow less fond of it as they get older.

• Purple is not readily found in nature, but children usually prefer it.

• Black, brown, and gray are seldom chosen as a child's favorite. Fear and defiance may be indicated in a child's emotional life if they use these colors in excess.

• Black and white as a color scheme lowers a child's IQ and dulls learning.

• Bold reds and oranges may increase a child's IQ as much as 12 points by attracting a child's attention to details.

• The ranking of color preference internationally is blue, followed by red, green, violet, orange, and yellow.

• Small children naturally prefer luminous colors like red, orange, yellow, and pink.

• Reading comprehension increased 80% in dyslexic children when using a blue or gray overlay on the page.

Along with having the right color in your child's learning environment, it's also important to incorporate color into your daily lesson plans and activities. Because children remember colors better than verbal cues, combining lesson content with colorful visuals can improve your child's memorization. Choosing Christian homeschool curriculum like the brightly illustrated Horizons from Alpha Omega Publications will improve your child's cognitive retention.

In short, if you want your child to learn better, consider the power of color. Because 80% of the brain receives information visually, be sure to incorporate the element of color as you homeschool and paint the perfect picture for your child's educational future.

Learning colors: how to teach a child to distinguish colors and shades

It is generally accepted that by the age of three a child should learn to distinguish between primary colors. This skill is an important part of sensory development, it gives the child the opportunity to see the world in a new way. Often, if the baby does not know or confuse colors, parents have concerns about the pace of development of the child. Do I need to worry if the study of colors is not easy for a child? How to teach a child to distinguish colors? You will find answers to these questions in our article.

At what age does a child begin to see colors?

Studies have shown that children begin to perceive colors by 2-3 months. The first colors a child sees are yellow, orange, red, green. At this age, babies can already react differently to their toys of different colors (for example, a red rattle can please a child more than a blue one), look at bright pictures with enthusiasm. The baby's world quickly acquires colors, but if we talk about the ability to consciously find an object of the right color, then usually it appears in children at the age of one and a half. It is at this age that it is optimal to start learning colors in a playful way. You can voice the names of flowers to a child for up to a year, this will only benefit him. But do not demand too much from the baby, remember that his brain is actively developing, and as soon as the time comes, you will certainly see the results.

To see if your child is ready to learn colors by playing with building blocks, ask your child to point to a part that is the same color as yours. If the baby can find objects of the same color, then he is quite ready to memorize the names of colors.

Learning colors in everyday life

Children get most of their knowledge about the world in everyday life: communicating with adults and peers, observing nature, playing. The study of flowers is no exception. Sometimes a child does not need to do special exercises to learn to recognize colors. For this, it is enough that he hears the name of the color and associates it with a specific thing. During daily activities, voice for the child what color the objects are around. Whether you are drawing, playing with blocks, looking at cars in the yard, reading, swimming, eating, dressing - in each of these situations, you can gently teach your child to distinguish colors.

It is important that the study of colors does not turn into torture. You should not constantly test the child's knowledge by asking him which color is which. Soon the baby may just start to ignore you. “Let's paint the sun yellow!”, “What a delicious green cucumber!”, “Oh, where did the blue cube go? Here he is!" are examples of how you can gently help your child remember colors.

Games for learning colors and their shades

In order to get your baby interested in learning colors or to reinforce the knowledge they already have, you can offer your child to play special “color” games.

Color Sorting

Sorting games are designed to help children learn to group objects by color. Any materials at hand can be items for sorting: toys, covers, designer parts, cubes, buttons, cereals, pencils, etc. You can organize the game in various ways:

You can come up with as many options for sorting by color, it all depends on your imagination. So that the child does not lose interest in the task, connect the plot of the game with his favorite characters, toys (for example, a cat will eat from a yellow bowl, and a baby elephant from a red one, etc.).

Match a Pair

Help your child learn colors with the Match a Pair series. Ask your child to find a petal for a bug, a pot for a flower, a roof for a house, etc. You can present the baby with a deliberately wrong option and ask to correct the mistakes.

Pick up a patch

Show the child the picture with the missing details. Ask him to fill in the gaps (this can be done with plasticine, pom-poms, caps, cards, etc.).

Color Lotto

At the age of about one year, children begin to be interested in various lottos. In the color lotto, the task is to collect pictures of the same color on the card.

Colored Sensory Boxes

Create a sensory box for your baby where everything is the same color. During the game, the child will be able not only to remember the color that he sees, but also to develop fine motor skills, tactile sensitivity, thinking, and imagination.

Color days

This is one of the most interesting and popular ways to teach your child to distinguish colors. Its essence is that during the day (or several days) you draw the child's attention to objects of a certain color. For example, on a yellow day, you can dress in yellow clothes, play with yellow toys, draw a yellow chicken. Surrounded by one color, the baby will easily remember it.

Cards for learning colors

You can learn colors with your child using cards. With the help of Doman's "Colors" cards, you can introduce your baby not only to the main colors, but also to different shades. It is important not to overload the child with unnecessary information about the names of 10 shades of green or red. Learn only those shades whose names you can use in the game and life.

Board games for learning colors

Board games are a great way to learn about colors and consolidate knowledge about them. Currently, the stores offer a wide range of similar games for every taste and budget. Choose a game that suits your child.

Educational cartoons

There are many educational cartoons on the Internet that will help your child memorize colors quickly. Here is one of them:

Educational books

If your little one loves to listen to stories and look at pictures, this is the way for you. We all remember the wonderful story of V.G. Suteev "Rooster and paints", by S.Ya. Marshak has a whole “Colorful book”. You can also find many educational books that will become your faithful assistants.

Conclusions

We have listed for you different color learning games. In order for a child to master the concept of color well, it is worth adhering to a number of principles: do not rush the baby, provide a variety of material for games, discuss what you see.

Conclusion

You can start studying colors from an early age, the main thing is that it is interesting for the child. It is impossible to specify clear age limits when a child should learn primary colors. This process, like all development, is individual for each baby. The Sozvezdie Development Center has created a Montessori environment for kids, aimed at the comprehensive development of the child. In the classes "Together with Mom" ​​children in a playful way get acquainted with the concepts of color, shape and size, do thematic creative work. You can learn from our teachers how to interest a child in an activity and how to properly present him with cognitive information. Develop with us!

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Sokolova Oksana

How do we learn colors with preschool children?


The appearance of a child in a family imposes many new tasks on parents: to instill the first counting skills, to develop the language. And then - teach the baby colors.

In the study of the surrounding world, a small person gets acquainted with the properties of objects, their shapes, size and, of course, color.

Is it necessary to specifically teach the child to distinguish colors or will it happen by itself in the process of growth, when the baby himself will gain knowledge and experience?

And why teach him to recognize colors if in a year, when he is, for example, three years old, this will be done much faster and easier?

And if we decide to teach the child colors, how to do it?

Contents

  1. A little physiology
  2. First concepts
  3. Jars of paint for drawing and coloring
  4. Draw attention to everything around
  5. Passion for drawing and plasticine crafts
  6. Bright coloring of toys

    The yellow color holds the championship. It is his child who perceives in the first place. A little later, he perceives red and orange.

    After a while, it can distinguish between blue and green, and by the 6th month - purple. So, the presence of yellow, red and orange colors in baby rattles is not accidental. This is directly related to the peculiarities of color perception in children.

    Speaking about teaching colors, we must develop the child's ability to consciously distinguish one or another color, to master the grouping of objects by color, to learn how to choose the necessary color and shades. All these skills do not develop immediately, and, of course, due attention should be paid to their formation.

    Color, shape and size are for children the basis of samples on which knowledge about specific objects and phenomena is based. And the sooner these indicators are formed, the more useful information the child will be able to accept and assimilate, and the better it will develop in general.

    First concepts

    For a small person who has just made his first discoveries in a large and colorful world, color is not something separately visible and distinguishable. It is closely related to specific objects and objects, which often have a certain color, so color for a child is not an abstract concept, but an associative one.

    As a rule, we say to the child: “Red tomato, green grass.”

    But a tomato can be green, and red, and pink. And the grass isn't always green. It is usually green, and in autumn it is predominantly yellow.

    So, it is necessary to establish such color models at an early age and not confuse the child.

    It would be good if, showing him a separate object, say: “This is a tomato. He is red".

    Do you feel the difference?

    Name not a phrase, which is perceived as one name for an object, but speak in sentences.

    Name the item first. And the second sentence is to name its color.

    This also applies to toys. When giving a baby a ball, we usually say: “Here is a blue ball.” For a child, this sounds like one word, like the name of an object.

    But now we already know how to correctly construct a sentence: “This is a ball. He is blue. And this is a cube. He's blue too." So gradually, with experience, the child will learn to distinguish the object from its quality.

    He will make an important discovery for himself, realizing that red can be a tomato, a car and a bench over there on the street.

    And if we, as often as possible, pay attention to the color properties of objects, the child will make this discovery much faster.

    When pointing out a particular color to a child, one should not limit oneself only to the basic ones: blue, red, green, yellow. And you do not need to learn colors separately: first, to remember red, and then green. Speak colors correctly - don't call gray blue or pink or crimson red.

    Children perfectly distinguish nuances, no worse than we do. And they don’t understand at all why mom calls completely different colors with the same word. At the beginning of training, to avoid such confusion, try to choose those toys or objects whose color can be called red or green unambiguously.

    Cans of paint for drawing and coloring

    Paint jars and felt-tip pens will help you when teaching your child about colors. Draw with your child, constantly pronounce each specific color that you take with a brush: “Which jar did we take with you from? From yellow.

    Let's draw a yellow sun from a yellow jar. And what color will we draw the chicken? Also yellow! Yellow sun and yellow chicken!”

    Explain the child's actions: “You took from the green jar. Bravo, I drew green grass from it!

    Children are happy to draw with a felt-tip pen. It is advisable to choose special felt-tip pens with colored caps for the baby.

    When you have finished drawing, ask your child to help you close each marker with the correct cap.

    Don't forget to name the colors! Sometimes you can get confused and put the lid on another felt-tip pen to please the child, who will gladly volunteer to correct the mistake.

    Thanks to this simple confusion, children from the age of one and a half can successfully cope with the request to find not only the primary colors, but also orange, purple, brown, pink, gray . ...

    In general, we have great opportunities for drawing with children. They should be used variably to teach color.

    For example, we draw colorful balloons and ask the child to draw dots on them in the same color. And of course, we will name the colors. Or we draw several different houses. “Look, what is missing in our houses? Of course windows!

    Well, let's paint the windows the same color as the houses. Thus, you can draw the rays of the sun, heavy rain from different colors of clouds, etc.

    Draw three identical flowers of different colors (three red, three blue, three pink, etc.) on a sheet and ask the child to collect the same flowers in bouquets, connect plants of the same color using a line.

    In a word, you can come up with a lot of similar problems. And, of course, do not forget to introduce the child to the colors of the rainbow. It will be fun for a child to draw a rainbow - it's so interesting!

    As a rule, pronouncing a color comes a little later than distinguishing it. Often mothers, complaining that their child does not know colors, confuse two different things: knowledge and skill are different processes. As a rule, from the second year, most children already know the primary colors.

    They easily find blue cubes in a pile, but not all children will name these colors. This shouldn't bother you. Just keep playing games, colors, draw, pay attention to different colored objects while walking and say often the names of different colors and shades. Very soon the child will know and be able to name all this.

    Then you can move on to images of intermediate tones. For a more precise definition of color, use the adjectives "light" and "dark" in combination with any tone: light red, dark blue, etc.

    If a child stubbornly refuses to choose colors, you can offer him to play colorful associations. Of course, many children themselves come up with the names of colors. So, pink becomes Barbie's house, brown becomes Winnie's house, and light blue, let's say, like "my favorite mug. "

    Here is another simple trick and a useful game for teaching color - name all the objects with a certain color while walking. You can play "color days".

    For example, today is your white day. Wearing something white and looking in the park, around us is something white. And even for dinner at home there should be something white, for example. cheese. And tomorrow can be called red or green. So even boring days can become colorful.

    You just need to really want it!

    What methods will help facilitate the assimilation of this one of the first sciences for a little man?

    Draw attention to everything around you

    Learning in the form of a game accelerates not only the assimilation of numbers and words, but also the memorization of colors. To begin with, it is useful to voice the colors of things and their individual elements, collecting the child on the street.

    Moreover, it is important not to limit the palette to seven colors of the rainbow: it is better to complete clothes from 2-3 different shades of colors - burgundy, lilac, crimson.

    And on the street, you can pronounce the colors of all objects in your field of vision: grass is green, wood is brown. The more time to devote to such communication, the faster the child himself will begin to talk about the colors of objects that will attract her attention.

    Passion for drawing and plasticine crafts

    Drawing and making figurines from plasticine is very effective for teaching a child colors: by pronouncing the color that is applied to paper, you can significantly speed up the result.

    Here it is important, at the very first attempts to voice colors, to fix the acquired knowledge of colors: to invite the child to draw objects of a given color, for example, a blue sky with white clouds and a yellow sun.

    Plasticine is a great way to teach a child to remember, distinguish and choose colors: when sculpting, you should choose separate colors for different elements of the figure, you should not mix all the colors into one, but on the contrary, you need to highlight them.

    Brightly colored toys

    Bright, colorful first rattles and toys with sound inserts introduce baby to sounds and colors at the same time.

    A little later, variations of educational kits, cubes, balls of different colors appear in the house, which forms an understanding of the combination of colors: you need to attach a cube of the same color to the red hole.

    Gradually, it is useful to make this task more difficult - if the task is to combine parts from different colors: the yellow triangle and the blue cube must be placed in the corresponding holes of the green area - this is how the child develops motor skills, logic, different shapes and colors are remembered.

    Analogy - associations

    When playing balls with a child, it should be pointed out that the ball in mom's hands is blue, like dad's shirt, and next to it lies a yellow ball - like his favorite toy. Going for a walk, in the course of discussing with the baby, for example, the colors of cars, you can draw analogies with nature around: a green car, like leaves on a tree.

    Such associative examples will greatly facilitate the process of memorization and help develop the projection of the acquired knowledge on other subjects.

    Instilling in a child the first important knowledge, adults need constant attention, patience, efforts, a positive mood and the ability to interest in the learning process: elements of the game must be used in all possible daily activities and turn every lesson into educational entertainment!

    Rainbow colors for children

    Rainbow is an incredibly beautiful natural phenomenon. It looks like a multi-colored arc made up of colors (from the outer edge: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet).

    These are the seven colors used in the rainbow in Russian culture. Below are illustrative pictures for teaching a child the main colors.

    Colors of the rainbow in order

    The order of the flowers is easy to remember with the help of the mnemonic phrase: "Every hunter wants to know where the pheasant sits. " There are other options: “How once Jacques the city bell ringer broke a lantern.

    (How Once Jean Zvonar Crushed a Lantern with His Head)" and "A cat sewed blue jerseys for a donkey, a giraffe, a hare."

    In these sentences, each first letter in a word denotes the initial letter of a color.

    Poem about colors

    I'm in my grandmother's garden
    I'll find a lot of red:
    This is a red raspberry,
    Nearby is a red viburnum,
    And ripened by the fence
    Two handsome tomatoes.

    Orange apricot
    Growing on the tree.
    Grew up, matured,
    And I ate it.

    These are yellow chickens.
    Look, they're running somewhere.
    It can be seen that the mother is in the yard.
    The worm found in the grass.

    Here are green frogs
    And green grass.
    In the swamp near the edge of the forest
    A friendly “qua-qua!” is heard.

    In summer the sky above you
    Blue-blue!
    Bells under it
    Let's draw it in blue.

    Blue balloon over the track
    Flies into the clouds.
    Wave your hand to him:
    - Goodbye! Bye!

    Eggplant lies in the garden -
    Purple barrel.
    And inside a sweet plum
    A worm settled.

    Color Methods

    Of course, there are a wide variety of methods for studying color, and some of them are simply absurd, others are ineffective. So that you do not worry, we have selected for you only the best ones that will help you quickly teach your child the main colors.

    Of course, you will need some equipment. We will not rely on modern technologies and say that everything can be shown on a computer monitor, we love the old, "old-fashioned", proven methods.

    Therefore, you will need:

    • Balloons in different colors
    • Felt pens and markers
    • Colored cardboard
    • Paints
    • Paper
    • Pencils
    • Mosaics, cubes, pyramids

    All this may be useful to you as a handy tool for teaching a child. Now let's look at some of the most popular and simple color learning techniques.

    Towel Game

    For this game you will need colored cardboard and a little imagination. You need to make beautiful towels, but, in the middle, they should be white, and the edges should have some other color. Naturally, one towel has edges of only one color.

    Now, cut out pieces of cardboard that can be placed in the middle of your towel, where the white void is now. Invite your child to match each towel with a different color to match the edges.

    The second version of the same game is not to make other pieces of cardboard, but to invite the child to paint over the center with paints. But, the downside here is that then your towels become disposable.

    Mosaic

    Mosaic develops every child very much, and therefore, it must be collected frequently. There is another plus in it - it is multi-colored, and has bright, large details. Offer to collect it to the child, and help him with this. But, ask for details, naming them, for example: "Give me, please, a red detail."

    Do not tell the child what it looks like, he should think for himself, and if he asks for help, then do not perform the operation instead of him. Just take any object of the same color and show what red looks like.

    I repeat once again that we should not forget that we study colors together with the child, and therefore, we help in everything.

    Balloons

    The child always likes balloons, so they beckon children with something. You can use it for selfish purposes, for learning. Especially, they can help at the initial stage, when you are just learning the first colors with your child.

    For example, you are learning the color yellow. Buy 5-10 yellow balloons, inflate them, and hang them around the room. Ask the child to bring a yellow balloon, he will not be mistaken, they are all yellow. This should take a few days, and then, you can add some other color, for example, red. Now, you have yellow balls, and only one - red.

    Ask the child to bring exactly the red ball, and, most likely, he will do it without difficulty. Gradually add colors, and you will understand that it is fun, interesting, and most importantly, it is useful for development.

    Animal House Game

    You will have to work hard to create this game. Cut out some animals. You can draw them yourself, together with your child, you can print them out on a printer, it doesn't matter. Also, separately draw small houses with a simple pencil, they can also be made on a computer and printed. Now set a task for the child, to give each animal its own house.

    It should be something like an animal, for example, a fox's house can be painted orange, a hare - gray, and so on. In addition, make a few more details: fence, doors, rug, and so on. Let the child paint them in the color of each house and match them. This game will be very interesting for the kid, and at the same time, he will develop and learn colors.

    A few tips for learning about color

    When you teach colors with your child, it must be interesting, first of all, to the kid. Therefore, take the trouble to provide everything you need, create the necessary material, games, and so on. Also try to draw more, because it is in the drawings that all colors are known.

    It is not necessary to tell the child that he did something wrong, it is better to show why this or that color does not suit. After all, you should not study design graphics with him, your task is to give elementary knowledge of simple colors.

    Shades of colors

    If everything is clear with ordinary colors, then how to learn the shades of colors, is it much more difficult? Yes, it is, you will have to devote more time to teaching the baby, but the shades are as important as the primary colors, because the baby must understand the difference between blue and blue, between green and light green. Therefore, we will give some recommendations on how to learn the shades of colors.

    First of all, get all the necessary equipment for the class, for example, a wider range of felt-tip pens and pencils, paints, and so on.

    Use the same games that are suitable for learning ordinary colors, only now with more advanced features. It is also important to show the similarity of colors and their shades. For example, this can be done in the game "Animal Houses". Let the kid paint the house with one color, and the fence or doors with its shade, lighter or darker.

    The most important task is to explain to your student how shades appear. Of course, for this you need to prepare yourself and learn about the combination of colors. Also, you will need paint, and then turn it all into a beautiful trick, showing the child how, by mixing one paint with another, get a third color that is completely different from the previous ones.

    There are a lot of shades, therefore, it is not necessary to explain and tell all of them, it is enough to limit ourselves to the most common ones that may be useful to a child in the first grade. Some parents are so addicted that they tell designer shades of colors, of which there are more than a million.

    Methodology for teaching a child the concept of color

    As an example of other educational games for children, we offer one of the simple methods for teaching a child the concept of color.

    Cut out 25 cards from paper, color them in the same way as shown in the pictures on our page, and arrange them one below the other and in ascending order of numbers - from the first to the twenty-fifth.

    Training is desirable to start with red. Circles painted in this color are located in different places on the first 5 cards.

    Take the cards of the first five. Ask your child to point to the red circle and he will complete your task confidently and without error on all five cards, since there is no other color there.

    Take the next 5 cards, on which next to the red circle is a green circle that increases in size from card to card.

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