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Toddler Activities: DIY Colour Matching Puzzle

November 3, 2011 by Shen-Li 24 Comments

More adventures from my continuing mission to wean Hercules off his “screen time”… If I’m going to keep him away from the screen, then I need activities that will keep him busy. To add more variety to my Montessori Busy Box, I made these for him today:

Colour Matching Activity

Playing Instructions:

Match the coloured felt squares to their respective colours on the card.
Trace over the textured letters that spell each colour with a finger.

Reinforces colour matching, colour names, reading and spelling.

Materials:

Cardboard
Glitter Glue
Coloured Felt Squares
Velcro (hook and loop)
Glue
Stencil
Scissors
Pen, pencil and ruler

Instructions:

Cut two same-size squares of felt from each colour.
Stick one of each felt square colour to the cardboard.
Write out the colour of the felt square using the stencil.
Follow the stencil outline with glitter glue.
Cut little squares of velcro. Stick the rough side to the cardboard and the smooth side to the back of the other felt square.
Let it dry.

You could do the same activity using other subjects – fruits, animals, musical instruments, etc. Instead of felt squares, you could use pictures.

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Flashcards: Colours – Part 2

June 11, 2010 by Shen-Li 3 Comments

Here are more flashcards on colours. I wasn’t too sure about the exact hue, chroma and values for these colours so I used the RGB values I found through google to create the images. If you don’t agree with my values, you are welcome to change them. I think they’re okay for screen use but I’m not sure how they’ll come out once printed.

How to use the slides:

I used to recommend following “How to Teach Your Baby (the Glenn Doman way)” as described in the book “How to Teach Your Baby to Read” by Glenn Doman. However, since teaching my children using this method, I have found it to be unnecessarily repetitive and too slow. Doman is right – children are brilliant learners and they can learn very fast – but I feel his method doesn’t address this adequately because it incorporates too many repetitions. Children can learn so fast that sometimes all it takes is one flash taken in at a glance.

If you’re like me, doubting whether once is enough, then you may want to repeat the series a few more times. I’m not going to make a recommendation on how many times it is necessary to show a child a series of flashcards because I don’t believe I have enough experience on this topic to do that. Even now I still have trouble believing that a child can learn that quickly even though my son has proven to me time an again that it is so. However, I do believe that 3 times a day for 5 days is probably a tad excessive. It appears that a number of other mothers who have tried the Doman method concur.

Flash the cards quickly – about the pace of one card per second. The younger your child, the faster I would go. It is difficult to maintain the attention of a very young child unless you do flash them quickly.

The flashcards in this series: