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2006-09-26 14:51:04 · 10 answers · asked by lanaelthie 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Preschool
Why don't you just use some crayons?
2006-09-26 14:52:21 · answer #1 · answered by Elizabeth L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rather than using a web site, try these ideas for teaching colors:
1. Read. Buy and read books that focus on colors. Your child should be able to recognize color differences by the age of 18 months. The more you show your toddler colors, the faster your child will comprehend the differences in hues and recognize them as different colors.
2. Buy toys that have bright colors to them. Stick to the true reds, blues and yellows, and not the pastel colors. Brightly colored toys will have a greater contrast against the everyday objects in your home and will be easier for your toddler to distinguish.
3. Talk to your child about colors. There are numerous examples in your daily routine where color will come into play. Say things like, "Are you going to wear a blue or red shirt today? Mommy has on green socks. I love your orange ball." You will be teaching your child valuable language skills as well as color differences.
4. Point out colors while you are out of the house. Show your child a red apple at the grocery store. Let your toddler hold a green dollar at the bank. Walk on the yellow or white lines in a parking lot. Slide down the big blue slide at the park. Your options are limitless.
5. Play color games. Put a drop of food color into your bubbles to make beautiful colored bubbles. Let your child chase and pop them. Buy colored blocks and build color towers. Ask your toddler to get the color you are building and add a block to the top of the tower. When you clean up, ask your toddler to pick up the red or blue or green blocks.
6. Paint. Color. Glue. Cut. Art is the best way to teach your child about color and reinforce creativity at the same time. Teach your child to use child-safe scissors and cut colored paper. Put food color in glue and make colored glue designs on white paper.
Tips:
Buy your child his or her favorite color clothes.
Ask your child to choose what color fruit or drink to have at lunch and dinner.
2006-09-26 21:58:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seriously, you don't need a web site to teach colors. People in the middle ages taught their kids colors and they sure didn't have computers. Sit down with him/her and use Fruit Loops and teach the colors. If he/she guesses correctly, give the correctly guessed color cereal as a prize. Kids respond really well to food prizes and the time you spend one-on-one is so much better than plopping them down in front of the computer to do a job, as a parent, you could be doing.
2006-09-26 21:59:40 · answer #3 · answered by Lisa S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Teach her by talking and looking things in your natural environment. Start with the traffic lights as you drive to and from school. Find simple songs about colors. There's a teacher resource book called Colors 123. It's full of piggy back songs (familiar tunes like Are You Sleeping) and activities that you can do with your child. I suggest focusing on one color to start, and finding /talking about things in your environment that are that color. Add another color when your child learns the first one.
2006-09-26 22:21:24 · answer #4 · answered by cindy1323 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about sites. Although, I do know about some toys you can buy for your daughter. Just recently my husband and I bought our son a talking dog. He has different colored body parts. For instance, he has blue ears, one purple hand and a green hand. He also has one yellow and one orange foot. This dog will teach your daughter her numbers *from 1-10*, ABC's, and what the basic parts of your body (hands, feet, nose, ears, ...etc). This dog does so many different songs and just for your sake there's even an "off" button. My son loves this dog. He is having a really good time when he plays with it. I don't mind it either because he is learning as he plays.
2006-09-27 18:00:47 · answer #5 · answered by Brittney J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Skip the sites. Log off and instead POINT to a color. "What color is that? That's red!! Red." Repeat with other colors and other objects.
How on earth did I learn anything when my parents didn't have a computer??
2006-09-30 16:42:48 · answer #6 · answered by Holly T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Janbrett.com has not only the colors but shapes, numbers, letters and dolch words. Its wonderful, and its free. They are in the flash cards section.
It also helps to just point at things and say "blue: Your shirt is blue!" or "purple: This crayon is purple!" Try and sound enthusiastic.
2006-09-27 16:17:42 · answer #7 · answered by yardchicken2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
perhaps rather than use website,sit down and play with your child...like i helped mine with there building blocks.....lets find all the yellow blocks to build the tower...etc...try teaching first colours like red ,green ,blu, and yellow.....then go from there....when u r going down the road point to different colour cars ,doors etc .your child will soon pick it up .also u will be talking more..then also from there u can start counting the blocks or cars u pass ...always teaching and she is always learning more from u...so easy to go to the pc..but it gives u both more special time together to sit and play and learn at the same time.
2006-09-27 16:03:34 · answer #8 · answered by lippylisa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Disney.com or Enchantedlearning.com has some activities. Look up your local school system and on their web site they will have sites for kids. If you go to thoses they can direct you to sites for kids in pre-k .
2006-09-26 21:54:09 · answer #9 · answered by pugaboo03 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
buy colored costruction paper and work on her colors that way while cutting out and drawing shapes so she may also learn her shapes
2006-09-26 21:55:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋