Whenever you can, allow your child the opportunity to play with colors. Whether they use crayons, finger paints, colored tissue paper, or markers, this opportunity to be creative is wonderful for your child.
Most children learn more effectively, and prefer to learn, by doing. Pointing to a red swatch and repeating the word “red” grows boring quite fast – especially for a child. Hands-on learning tends to make the greatest impression and children retain more of what they have learned in this way.
Activity suggestions:
. Give your child red, yellow, and blue finger paints. Allow them mix colors to see the “magic” of creating new colors!
. Have your child draw a tree trunk on a large sheet of while paper. Tear up small pieces of colored tissue paper “leaves” (you will want to do this ahead or risk ending up with rather large leaves and a big mess), and allow your child to glue the many colored leaves onto their tree.
. Make homemade play dough by mixing ? cup salt, ? cup water, 1 cup flour, and food dye. Allow your child to help you choose the colors. This is an easy recipe, so if color-mixing is on the agenda, let them go for it! You can make a new batch of basic colors quickly and easily.
. Crayons and watercolors also offer great color play and mixing opportunities. Allow kids to explore! Even if they end up with a brown mess, they will be curious as to how they got there and likely want to try again!
With learning colors, hands-on-learning allows for creativity, critical thinking (when mixing colors), great enjoyment, and a sense of achievement. Their final products should be praised and all efforts recognized with approval.
Do not stifle your child’s creative spirit. If they choose to color purple trees and orange water, allow them to explore the spectrum. Ask them why they chose the colors they did. You may find some very interesting stories!
Visit our website EducationalColoringPages.com and MoreColoring.com, we have plenty of kids printable coloring pages and activity pages for them. Give them a pack of crayons and let them use their favorite colors and imagination to color in, you might be surprised what kind of master piece they will create! What wonderful colors they use and what magnificent drawings they can do!