Colour recognition - Arts, Crafts and DIY

43 Comments

Learning colour recognition at home doesn’t have to be expensive, most people have these things laying around. Just laminate and play. I hope your children enjoy this as much as mine do.

Material

20 Paint sample cards
2 Sheets Laminate
20 Wooden pegs and glue

Method

Laminate your paint sample cards.
Cut matching color strips and glue to wooden pegs.
Show your child how to match the right peg colour to the laminate sheet and peg it on!

Notes

Two and a half year old DD (Dear Daughter) recognises 12 shapes perfectly. She has had Montessori based teaching now for a year or so.

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Rachael Lorenz

43 Comments

- - mom19782016 said
  - 15 Oct 2020
    2:19 pm
That’s a pretty cool idea

- - mom462038 said
  - 13 Apr 2020
    5:29 pm
Would be great to teach colours. Stick to the basic primary colours to start with and build from there

- - Jbuttxx said
  - 08 Dec 2019
    6:27 am
Great idea! Very educational.and fun too

- - MrsA said
  - 20 Mar 2019
    9:24 pm
Great game. My 2 year old knows all of his colours but he would still enjoy this game.

- - kjgarner said
  - 29 Jun 2018
    10:00 pm
That is a great way to get your child to learn the shades of colours
- kjgarner replied
  
  30 Jun 2018 , 10:32 pm
  I am sure most children would love playing with it
- - mom111059 said
  - 17 Jun 2018
    6:09 pm
I love this project. So easy to do and so educational. Thanks

- - mom62624 said
  - 31 Oct 2017
    7:32 am
I work in teaching and this is an amazing little idea, thanks!

- - momlynneymom said
  - 27 Jun 2017
    8:30 pm
This is such a fabulous idea wow

- - Mum To Two said
  - 17 Mar 2017
    9:03 pm
Excellent idea! I can’t wait to try this with my boys!

- - henrysmumma said
  - 16 Oct 2016
    10:44 pm
This is fantastic, love bright and visual learning

- - mom206337 said
  - 10 Oct 2016
    1:53 pm
Easy way to teach children. Great work.

- - mom111059 said
  - 12 Aug 2016
    8:27 pm
Thank you. Nice project without an expensive price tag. Really good idea

- - Melissa89 said
  - 05 Aug 2016
    1:44 pm
What a fantastic idea

- - pakeko said
  - 20 May 2016
    9:57 pm
Love this idea and so easy to set up and do

- - Nas01 said
  - 20 Apr 2016
    10:06 am
What a fantastic way to teach kids colour. I’m definitely going to visit local Bunnings to get colour swatches and then making this for them.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 03 Feb 2016
    1:47 pm
Great idea and the kids could learn some new vocabulary words out of it too!

- - rachelvk said
  - 11 Jan 2016
    10:03 pm
What a fantastic idea. Love it!

- - Kasey said
  - 31 Dec 2015
    6:06 pm
Brilliant idea thanks for sharing.

- - nicki.d said
  - 02 Dec 2015
    11:27 pm
What a clever idea!! Fantastic for young ones!

- - Melanie said
  - 24 Oct 2015
    4:38 pm
This is a fantastic idea. I recently discovered my son is colourblind and something like this activity would have helped me learn this sooner, i’m sure.
- Gurtling replied
  
  03 Nov 2015 , 8:34 pm
  Sorry to hear about that. There are similar activities with textures on pegs that you could try to look up? If you need help let me know.