Colors
What’s your favorite color? Skills can only develop if they are practiced. Reading books that introduce colors allows children to practice learning in a fun way.
There are many ways to bring color into the conversation:
Talk about colors a little bit each day. It can be as easy as pointing out the color of your shirt and naming other children wearing the same color. Get children to talk about colors by having a color specific show and tell. Children love to talk about what is theirs, be it a beloved brown teddy bear or the purple cat that was won at the fair.
Share stories that emphasize the color of things. Read stories with real photographs that represent the true color of things and stories like Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You Hear? (which has a purple cat and a blue horse in it).
Mix colors and talk about them while you are mixing them. Look at red and yellow come together to become orange! Give your children color specific toys to play with or better yet help them sort their toys into various color groups.
Write the names of colors in their corresponding color. Have the children say the name of the color and spell it out with you as you write it.
Share some of these songs about colors. Saying color names and moving the body gets the mind connecting in a different way from listening.
Mary Has her Red Dress On (Use each child’s name and describe something they are wearing.)
Mary has her red dress on,
Red dress on, red dress on,
Mary has her red dress on,
I see her here today.
Red, red is the color I see (Then replace red with the other colors.)
Red, red is the color I see. If you are wearing red then show it to me. Stand up, turn around. Show me your red then sit back down.
The Color Song (Sung to the tune of Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes)
Red, yellow, green and blue, green and blue
Red, yellow, green and blue, green and blue
Or-ange, purple, brown too,
Red, yellow, green and blue, green and blue
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