How Do You Teach Toddlers Their Colors?
Teaching toddlers their colors can be a lot of fun if you get creative. By incorporating sight, sound, touch, smell and taste to each lesson, you engage the child’s senses and make learning the colors much more fun. Evaluate the child’s interests. A child is more likely to learn his colors if you teach the colors in a way that appeals to the child’s interests. For example, if a child loves cars, then incorporating brightly colored toy cars into the lessons is more likely to engage the child. Read a book that provides an overview of the colors. The book “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” by Bill Martin and Eric Carle is a particularly good book for this purpose. Focus on one color at a time. Spend an entire lesson teaching a child about one color. You can review the colors that a child has already learned, but only introduce one new color at a time. Show the child what the color looks like. Provide small toys of the color, such as red cars or a red ball, for the child to examine
