15/04/2020
5 Ways to Teach Colours to Preschoolers! The ability of children to identify colours begins from an early age. But teaching children about colours can often be a daunting task that requires immense patience. However, the ability to identify colours is considered a milestone in a child’s developmental journey. It is important to develop the bridge between visual clues, words and colours by teaching children to identify colours. Children don’t have the ability to understand the difference between light green colour and a dark green colour right away. They lack the ability to understand it at an early age. Along with learning what each colour is called, children need to understand what colour represents; it’s not size, nor shape, nor the name of the object, nor the texture, not the number of things showing. The best way for children to learn colours is by exposing them to colours, showing them various colours and what objects are not of a particular colour. Begin with primary colours; red, yellow, blue, white, and black. Then move on to other colours. Children are experiential learners; therefore if they are taught to explore colours through all their senses such as sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch, they will learn better. Mentioned below are five ways in which colours can be taught to preschoolers: 1. Identify with a picture book: Take a basic book which you would use to teach the child alphabets. Now if the book shows A for an apple or aeroplane, show children how the apple is red in the book and the aeroplane is white in the book. Then show children an unripe apple, and show them how apple may sometimes not be red too. 2. I see colours book: Make a layered book by folding it where each page is a little longer than the one before. Each page has a different colour with the words “I see green” or “I see pink.” Children now have to look for objects of that particular colour written on the page. Parents help children cut out these images and then children glue it to the page. 3. Search the house: Show your child a particular colour, let’s say red. Now give him/her a piece of red paper and ask him/her to look for objects that match the red colour in the house. 4. Give children a colourful meal: While you give children different foods, introduce the food items with its colour. Like green vegetables, white rice, brown bread, red pepper, yellow lentil soup, etc. You can also take your child to the grocery store next time and play a colour game thereby teaching them how a tomato is red and how a banana is yellow. 5.I-Spy: A popular and favourite activity among kids. You can begin by taking your child for a walk in the neighbourhood and look for colours of a pre-decided colour where he/she says “I spy with my little eye, something blue”. This can be done to identify objects of the pre-decided colour. A variant of this activity is then saying “ I spy with my little eye, a ball”. Then the child identifies what colour the ball is.. For more info visit us at https://www.shantijuniors.com/palanporgam-surat/5-ways-to-teach-colours-to-preschoolers-the-ability-of-children-to-identify-colours-begins-from-an--blog/19?utm_source=facebookpage