Ella is at about 75% with here colors. So I wanted to do something fun that would reinforced her color identification and help her see the variety of each color.
She decided to decorate "box" out of a egg carton from the recycle material box and I capitalized on the opportunity for a popular sorting activity done with pom poms.
Once she was finished decorating the outside, I suggested she fill it up and I had just the thing to fill it with. She was excited.
I grabbed some solid color stickers and my big box of pom poms and we were ready to begin.
I gave her a sticker, helped her identify it's color, and had her place it in a section. Then I grabbed a pom pom and announced that it was also that color and placed it in. I asked her if there were any more and let her do it.
I waited for her to suggest that we add the feathers too, and encouraged her idea.
While she worked, I snuck away and hunted through my stickers. I choose these Sesame Street stickers to add based on their easy colors. I casually set them on the table beside her and let her get the idea to add them.
And lastly I grabbed a bowl of random items that I have on the shelf. When I see craft items on the floor I toss them into this bowl until I have time to put it away... It's my "junk bowl"😜. Again, I set it down but let her decide to add them.
This activity was a big success, it was a fun time spent together with my daughter and I could see strong skill improvement through the activity.
This is something that is best done together but with an older child who has experience with this activity, it could be an independent quite time or table activity
I want to say that this activity did not work with either of my two older boys at any age. That's okay, this is an activity that many children will love but if they can not sit still or focus just abandoned the sorting part of the activity and let them play with the pom poms and decorate the box while you point out the colors. This reminds me of this quote:
This is a valuable activity because it not only teaches colors but also a very important early math skill of sorting and compairing. In addition to that it improves fine motor skills, grasping and coordinating. If your child is like my boys, don't worry, they are still learning just manipulating the pom poms and from hearing you use color names.
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