Toddler Week 30

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Learning About Colors

Teaching your toddler about colors will  improve her communication skills by enabling her to ask for specific colored things she wants. It will also enhance her creativity and lay the foundation for more advanced perceptual skills later on. Many toddlers tend to choose one color to draw with over and over again. Allow her to have preferences and draw her attention to differently colored objects. Here are some practical ideas to teach your toddler more about colors:

  • Draw with her – Sit with her at a table, take a few sheets of blank paper and some crayons and draw with her. To her, everything you draw will be amazing. She doesn’t care if you can only draw a house and a stick figure, the important thing is that you do it with her and describe the colors that you are using.
  • Blow up some balloons – I haven’t met a toddler who isn’t mesmerized by balloons. Most of them are attracted to the colorful bouncy balls. Blow up a whole packet of them in one go and draw your toddler’s attention to the different colors bouncing around your living room.
  • Ribbons in a tree – Take a couple of rolls of party streamers from one color and take your toddler outside. Choose a low shrub or bush to ‘decorate’. Unwind the streamers and help your toddler to drape it all over the low plant. Make sure you use the name of the color streamer that you are using frequently. You can even throw a little picnic next to your beautified shrub! (You can also do this indoors with a potted plant.)
  • Choose colorful food – The most colorful fruits and vegetables are considered as  the healthiest ones. Make sure that your toddler’s plate is filled frequently with a variety of colored vegetables. Roasted vegetable and rice or stir-fry is an easy way to incorporate many different colors into one meal.                                                                                                                                                                                        

The aim of these color activities is not to produce a little Einstein before the age of two, but to have fun with your toddler while encouraging language and cognitive development.

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