Does your child get confused when naming colors? This means that he does not distinguish them well or simply does not know the correct name. Therefore, parents should pay attention to this and start educating their child.
Many parents can easily note that by the age of three, most children can confidently name the main ones, but by the age of six, even many shades.
How to teach a child to distinguish colors? The sooner you start working with your baby, the sooner he will comprehend all the subtleties of the color scheme and be able to correctly express his thoughts. And it's not far from there.
Learning is not difficult at all, you just need to devote enough time and patience to it. So that your classes are not spontaneous, you can be advised to use one of the above methods.
Method 1
This method involves the daily education of the crumbs with direct communication. You can show the baby some color on a walk, and then invite him to count the objects of this color that are encountered. For example, cars. Let the theme of the day be, for example, red. And the child must indicate or count all the cars in red shades. It will turn into pretty fun game, and it doesn’t matter at all how many cars your baby counts. Most importantly, he will master what red looks like.
Method 2
This technique teaches the child to draw, it is intended for older children. To master it, you will need to purchase bright pencils or felt-tip pens. Choose one pencil from the pack and invite your child to draw only with this color. For example, choosing orange, draw the sun, orange, fox and other objects orange color. So your child will learn imaginative thinking. Coloring books are very helpful. Let the child learn to color the pictures on his own, just show him how to do it.
Method 3
You can use special educational cubes, pyramids and other toys that can be purchased in children's departments. It would be nice to use special books equipped with funny rhymes and counting rhymes about colors, and even interactive applications. With their help, children learn the material very quickly.
Method 4
This technique involves the use of special educational games. You can peep them in books or on the Internet, or you can invent them yourself. The main thing is that the theme is consistent with learning to recognize colors. Even a simple picking up of scattered toys can be turned into an exciting activity by asking the child to first remove the toys, for example, green, then blue, then red, etc. This way you will kill two birds with one stone: teach the baby to keep order and once again fix it knowledge of different colors.
When using all these techniques, remember that while children are very young, it is enough to teach them to distinguish between primary colors: red, blue, green, yellow, white, black. Then you can add orange, purple, blue, pink, gray, brown, etc. to their number. So gradually add different shades.
It is better to learn colors by associations. For example, gray mouse, blue sky, red watermelon, white bear, etc.
Dear parents, many before you have already gone through this important stage with their children, so it’s not a sin to take advice from “experienced” dads and moms. 
- Communicate regularly with your child, even if he does not speak yet, but he hears you perfectly, every day, talking with your still dumb baby, you are already giving him the knowledge necessary for life;
- Use positive emotions, start teaching your child to recognize the colors of favorite objects - toys, cups, fruits, the baby will better remember exactly what he likes;
- Consolidate new knowledge in practice by learning the name of a new color with your child, repeat it all the time, for example, ask him to bring a red ball or green trousers;
- Encourage the child to rejoice at the new “victory”, let him tell his friend or girlfriend, grandparents about it, or better, he himself will demonstrate his knowledge in front of everyone;
- Do not use diminutive names in a conversation, for example, blue, yellow, better change the construction of phrases, saying once a green ball, change the combination a little - a green ball, this ball is green;
- It is better to start learning colors from red, it seems to the kids the most beautiful, then you should not start learning a new color without learning the old one well, for the smallest it is better to leave all the halftones for later - pink, light green, etc.
Dear parents, the study of the color palette will help in the future to teach your baby letters and numbers, so you should treat this with due attention and patience.
At what age should a child know colors?
At one and a half to two years old, the child already distinguishes colors visually well. Between two and three years When the child begins to speak, it makes sense to start learning the names of colors.
How to teach a child to distinguish colors?
simple and effective method- focus on colors Everyday life. While walking, playing, reading - pay attention to colors. Start with the most basic, avoiding shades. While playing with your child, note that the car is blue, the cube is yellow, the ball is red. Ask him to give you one or another object of a certain color. In a playful way, you can start looking for all the green objects in the room.
What will help you learn colors?
colorful cubes, Balloons, crayons, colored paper or cardboard, pencils, developing books. With older children (about 4 years old and older), you can paint coloring pages with felt-tip pens.
Anything else?
Take care of your child regularly. Gently correct his mistakes, celebrate his successes with praise. Be patient and success will not be long in coming.
Rainbow colors for kids
The rainbow is an incredibly beautiful natural phenomenon. It looks like a multi-colored arc made up of colors (from the outer edge: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet). These are the seven colors that are usually distinguished in the rainbow in Russian culture. Below are illustrative pictures for teaching a child the main colors.
The order of the flowers is easy to remember with the help of a mnemonic phrase: " TO every O hotnik and does h nat, G de With goes f azan. There are other options: TO ak O once AND ak- h vonar G orodskoy With broke f onar. ( TO ak ABOUT once AND en Z vonar G tin WITH carried F onar)" and " TO from O slu, and irafu, h aike G blue With sewed f ufayki." In these sentences, each first letter in a word denotes the initial letter of a color.
rainbow colors cards
A poem about colors
I'm in my grandmother's garden
I will find a lot of red:
It's a red raspberry
Nearby - red viburnum,
And ripened at the fence
Two handsome tomatoes.
orange apricot
It grew on a tree.
Growing up, mature
And I ate it.
These are yellow chickens.
Look, they're running somewhere.
It can be seen that mom is in the yard
I found a worm in the grass.
Here are the green frogs
And green grass.
On the swamp at the edge
Heard a friendly "qua-qua!".
In summer the sky above you
Blue-blue!
Bells underneath
Let's paint it blue.
Blue balloon over the track
Flies into the clouds.
Wave your hand to him:
- Goodbye! Bye!
Eggplant lies on the bed -
Purple barrel.
And inside the sweet plum
The worm settled.
Acquaintance of the child with the outside world is an important task of attentive and caring parents. You have a lot to tell the baby, to teach him a lot - and, among other things, teach him to recognize colors. It is not difficult to do this if you do it all the time, organically weaving educational games for learning color into the traditional list of daily activities with your baby. But let's talk about everything in order.
Fundamentals of color literacy
About the age at which it is advisable to study colors with a preschooler, experts have not developed a consensus. Some argue that already one-year-old children are ready to correctly process the relevant information, others believe that it makes no sense to start studying colors and even more so shades before the age of 2. But our regular readers know that we are for effective and intelligent education. And our methods make it possible to develop the intellect already from the cradle, while not overloading the child's brain, without causing rejection of new knowledge, without inhibiting the natural processes of children's curiosity.
1. Pay attention to the colors of the surrounding objects. This can be done already when the baby in the cradle is just learning to focus his infantile gaze on the surrounding objects. The rattle is yellow, mom's dress is blue, and now we're going to bathe in the green tub. It's not difficult, is it?
2. By the age of 2, most children already know the basic colors well:
- red;
- blue;
- yellow;
- green.
3. If the baby correctly names the color that you show, it's time to consolidate and expand his knowledge, inviting him to quickly navigate the color variety and gradually introduce new colors:
- pink;
- blue;
- violet;
- orange, etc.
4. Very good to work with color in time creative pursuits. Drawing, modeling, appliqué is a great opportunity to recall already known colors and get acquainted with new ones. And yet, by combining mixed materials with each other, you can see with your own eyes how a third is obtained from two colors. The experiment is simple, but very exciting!
5. Don't focus on learning colors as serious, difficult lessons. Don't test the baby. Just play with it. Color learning games can be created on the go. Ideas are literally in the air. But if you still can’t come up with them yourself, catch a few ready-made recipes that have been repeatedly tested in practice.
Educational games for learning color
An important stage in the study of color is the ability to identify different objects on this basis. To master it, you will need various materials:
- sheets of colored paper;
- colored paper clips and clothespins;
- caps from plastic bottles;
- mosaic;
- details of the Lego constructor or its analogues.
In general, you can adapt anything to games with color:
- plastic utensils;
- tubes for a cocktail;
- one-color toys ( great option- sets of small plastic cars);
- napkins;
- cloths and sponges for dishes.
You can print cards for educational games from the Internet or buy ready-made games in children's stores. Don't hesitate to start and you'll be surprised how easy it is to come up with your own games.
For now, a few interesting options we, the Evrika Scientific Research Institute, will offer to your parent piggy bank.
Game 1: Colored Tea Party
Preparation:
We need three toys: a doll, a bear and a cat. Of course, toys can be anything - choose from your stock. Colored glassware is a must. These can be sets of ordinary plastic tableware. The easiest way is to use children's dishes, which have everything we need: one-color bright saucers, cups and spoons. If your baby does not have dishes yet, this is a great reason to get one. Contrary to the common stereotype, dishes are a universal gift, equally successful in delighting both girls and boys.
Formulation of the problem:
We invited guests for tea. But there is a problem.
- Doll Masha agrees to accept treats only in red dishes;
- Bear Misha - only in blue;
- Kotofey Timofeyich - only in yellow.
We must solve the problem.
Solution:
- Lite version: you arrange saucers and cups, and the baby must pick up spoons of the appropriate color. You must pronounce the colors themselves, but you don’t require this from the child yet. So you can play even at the age of 8-10 months, if the child is diligent and attentive enough. 5–7 minutes of interest should be enough J
- Average level: you arrange one item, the child picks up the rest on his own. While saying what he is doing and why. You can start playing this way in a year and a half. True, it is not worth waiting for a special zeal for up to two years.
- Advanced Quest: you just name the colors you need, and your future excellent student does all the color work on his own.
Game 2: Garages
Preparation:
From the designer on your own, or better, together with your young architect, make garages of different colors: white, red, blue, green, yellow. And now you get the cars of the corresponding colors. It is desirable that the cars are exactly the same, not counting the color differences.
Formulation of the problem:
Cars left their houses in the morning to take people to work and children to kindergartens. But now they are lost and cannot find their place. We must help.
Notes:
In this case, the task is similar to the previous one. You can modify the rules by asking the little researcher to find out what the inconsistency is. Arrange the cars in the garages, deliberately not respecting the color harmony. And now the baby must determine what is wrong and correct the situation.
The same set of materials is great for mindfulness and memory games:
- arrange the cars in the garages;
- let the child carefully look at the playing space, saying how it looks at the current moment;
- ask the baby to turn away and swap cars;
- and now we need to turn around and understand what has changed.
Here are a few more options for similar games, but on the other game situation and no detailed explanation.
Game 3: Flying Carpet
Sheets of colored paper - flying carpets, ready to go to unknown distances. They will take to the air if the passengers are suitable. The role of passengers can be played by small colored bathing toys, colored rubber balls, designer parts, clothespins, little men cut out of colored paper, etc.
Game 4: Everyone go home
We need colored boxes-houses and residents of the corresponding color.
Game 5: Don't spill
Cut out droplets from colored paper. Drops "spilled" on the carpet. They must be urgently collected in colored cups.
Game 6: Every bug know your flower
We have colored bugs - small plastic hairpins (crabs, for example), clothespins or large paper clips. We prepare a flower from colored cardboard. Each bug should sit on "its" petal.
Game 7: Color Shop
The store is a favorite game for children 2-3 years old, and even at an older age it is of great interest. We can interpret it in such a way that the baby not only practices behavior patterns in society, not only learns to count, but also masters color literacy.
- Prepare one-color goods - toy fruits, bottles and jars, dishes and anything else from improvised materials. The main thing: the child must clearly identify the object by color;
- Prepare one-color money by cutting them out of colored cardboard. You can make money in different shapes, thus imitating their denomination. You can indicate the denomination in numbers if the child is already familiar with the account.
- The rules are simple: we sell green goods only for green money, blue goods for blue money, and so on.
Game 8: Colored days
An excellent game to reinforce the skill of identifying colors in environment. You can declare colored days (how lucky that the number of colors in the rainbow matches the number of days in the week!) and look for the appropriate items all day long, as well as consciously try to use things of the “correct color”.
- On a red day, we eat from a red plate, walk in a red dress, count red cars on the street.
- All blue day we walk around in blue tights, drink compote from a blue mug, and on the street we are looking for blue fences, swings and benches.
In general, we set the direction. Fantasize!
What color games do you use for your children? We will be glad to get acquainted with your experience if you share it in the comments to the article!
Until we meet again and happy parenthood!
Svetlana Maleva
Memo "How to teach a child to distinguish colors" for teachers and parents
memo"How teach a child to distinguish colors» .
A few tips for parents:
Starting to teach colors focus first child on 4 main ones - red, blue, yellow and green;
Do not distort the words, do not say that the scarf "blue", - it is blue;
After the child will remember the primary colors, introduce new ones gradually, adding 1 bloom until the baby accepts it too;
Do not add similar shades at the same time;
Draw analogies - a blue car, a blue sky, a blue plate - so that the baby does not tie color with only one subject;
Don't keep asking child point to one or the other color better offer to kid bring you a certain toy colors then you'll understand, does he know baby one color or another;
Do not give the baby a black pencil at first - it leaves the brightest color on paper, it will not be easy to switch to dimmer colors;
Don't give to kid draw with a pen - it draws thin and bright, you do not need to press hard to
A line has appeared, and it is this pressure that trains the hand;
Speak persistently and unobtrusively child about the world"V color»
What can help you learn colors?
Air balloons
Pyramids
mosaics
Pencils
colored paper
Special color household items sets
Use names colorsduring the drawing process constantly:
Let's paint green color.
Let's look - where is the yellow pencil?
How color the leaves? Green?
"Playing - Teach".
Teach from an early age. Don't underestimate children's learning abilities. Even if a child cannot speak yet, this does not mean that he is not able to understand or remember something. If you regularly communicate with your baby and tell him what colors, for example, his favorite rattle, it is sure to be deposited in his head. And in the future, when he can consciously build various words, it will be easier for you to explain the difference between one or the other color;
Link new knowledge to emotions. Human memory is arranged in such a way that we best remember pictures, vivid images and emotions. No wonder it is said: a person will remember not what you did for him, but what made him feel. Use this technique in teaching children. For example, start learning colors from your favorite fruit;
Practical use. New knowledge should be immediately used by the child. If you have learned something new with your baby, try to make sure that he begins to apply it in life. Learned red color, then, when you are going to go outside, ask him to bring you his red jacket. The more often you encourage child apply new knowledge in practice, the better they will be remembered;
Encourage your child to share what they have learned with others. After you have learned a geometric figure or color, let child call grandpa or grandma and tell them about it. This principle works very effectively in conjunction with practical application. For example, dad came home from work in the evening and went to wash his hands before eating - let child give him a yellow towel;
Speak in different phrases. Always say color in different contexts, to childdidn't take it as one word: this is a red ball, a red ball colors, this is a ball, it is red, etc.;
Avoid petty words (blue, red);
Wait a bit with shades - all light green, pink and blue shades are best left for later;
Don't start learning new color, Bye child will not learn the previous one! (starting with red, and then getting acquainted with yellow, green, blue).
A game "Mice".
Target: Form an idea of object color.
Material: Game canvas (mink, divided into 4 different sector color(red, yellow, green, blue). 2 mice each colors.
Game progress:
To kid a playing field is offered and the task is given to each mouse to find its house.
A game « Flowers» .
Target: To consolidate knowledge about object color. Continue learning to find two identical flower color.
Material: 10 figures colors
Game progress:
To kid it is proposed to find two identical ones in the clearing flower color.
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“My baby does not distinguish colors, what should I do?” - “My daughter thinks that everything around is green”, “Until the age of 3, my boy constantly confused colors”, “we are already three years old, and our son still does not distinguish colors, is he color blind?”
At what age can a child recognize and name colors
Let's try to figure it out together At what age can you distinguish colors?
All children from early childhood notice and see that colors are not the same. But children learn to memorize the names of colors, that is, the words that denote them, after they have learned to speak. And to fully distinguish and name colors - after reaching a certain level of intellectual development. Recognition of colors and shades - refers to the field of linguistics, so you can teach a child to recognize colors from early infancy. But the baby will remember the names of the colors and will be able to name them only when speech is formed.
Parents' concern is understandable - but first you need to remember one very important postulate: your child is unique. He does not have to and is not obliged to know and be able to follow a table or a schedule by a certain date: walk, speak clearly, know colors, letters, numbers, and so on. Everything develops in different ways, some faster, some slower. Think about it - have you ever seen an adult who does not know color, letters, numbers, etc. at all? But this does not mean that the baby should not be taught to distinguish colors - must be taught, and the sooner, the easier it will be for him to remember and assimilate information: after all, in early age the brain works faster, and all the information seems to accumulate, and as the child grows up, he learns to use and apply it.
By what age should a child recognize and name colors?
At two years old, the child has full right don't speak at all, definitely shouldn't distinguish colors and sort items by size. If from infancy they were engaged with a baby, by the age of 3 he can already name the main colors, recognize them, separate them from others, but the absolute norm is that at three years old a child can make mistakes and get confused in the names of colors.
Experts say that it is possible, as a rule, to diagnose a child for color vision disorders at the age of 7, until this time the child may not understand the concept of “color” and has every right to do so. If the child's parents have normal color perception, then, according to the laws of classical genetics, it is excluded. Theoretically, there is a possibility that you are a carrier of the color blindness gene. In this case, your sons have a 50% chance of being born color blind, girls do not suffer from color blindness. But even in the case of the presence of this disease, this is not yet a sentence - color blindness can be of varying degrees, for example, a child may not distinguish between just one color.
Why can a baby not distinguish colors?
- They started learning late (the child will not be able to remember the colors himself if he is not taught).
- Each child has his own pace of learning the world, many children first accumulate information, and after a while it breaks out, and it turns out that the baby knew everything - he was just silent.
- The kid can be mischievous, because he likes your reaction - when he speaks incorrectly, and deliberately confuse colors.
When should you worry about your baby not being able to distinguish colors?
If your child is over 5 years old and does not distinguish colors at all. Only from the age of 7 it is possible to diagnose color recognition using polychromatic tables.
How to teach a child to recognize colors or how to teach a child to name colors correctly
Children learn faster in a team, in developing classes, for example, in a kids club or a children's development center. You should not ask the child: what color is it - it can lead to the fact that the baby will be afraid to make a mistake and self-doubt will develop. You should not purposefully teach how to recognize colors at school, it is better to mention them in between times, while playing or drawing.
Rules for teaching colors to a child
Start by focusing on the color of the items, then move on to sorting the items by color. The kid will not be able to learn colors if you just call what what color, you need to let him know that there are different colors. After the child has mastered the basic colors, you can sort the colors into warm and cold.
- Always pronounce the color in a different context so that the child does not perceive it as one word: this is a red ball, a red ball, this is a ball, it is red, etc.
- Bind colors to objects;
- Don't start learning new color until the child masters the previous one! (starting with red, and then getting acquainted with yellow, green, blue)
- Teach non-targeted, but casually and in a playful way.
- Consider the child’s age, character (there are children who slowly absorb information, but having memorized in a calm environment once, they never forget, for others it is enough to repeat once, and they remember everything, but only in a mobile game form, etc. )
Learn to recognize and name colors
Up to a year - game form
From birth, the baby already sees that the colors are different. At first, he distinguishes yellow (it is no coincidence that yellow rattles are chosen). At this age, the baby passively perceives and absorbs information, which will subsequently be conscious and processed through speech. Up to a year old, the baby can already be introduced to different colors, call them in the game, tell what color it is, but you should not expect that he can remember it, let alone say it.
Just pay attention to what color his mug, clothes, spatula, bucket, toy.
From 1 year to 2 years
From this age, you can already include in the process of learning colors - sorting by color: building blue and green towers from cubes, pronouncing the names of the colors of the pyramid, etc. No need to ask the child to remember the name of the color, the main thing at this age is to teach the child to properly lay out and sort objects by color. Let him confuse the names, but correctly put the green cube in the green box. To make it easier for the child to navigate the colors at first, put one cube in each box and say: “Put the same cubes as this one in this box.”
It is already possible to sculpt from plasticine of the same color, naming it, draw, stick stickers of different colors together.
By the age of 3, the baby is already entering the active phase of learning about the world. So, in order to better assimilate colors, he must move, touch, throw, throw, shift, pour and actively participate in the process, for example, draw, sculpt from plasticine, stick stickers, feed animals, etc.
When a kid draws, it’s enough just to mention what color he draws “and we’ll draw blue eyes, and yellow hair, we’ll draw green grass ...”, etc. When the child grows up a little, you can try mixing paints with him and see what color turned out.
To teach to distinguish colors, you need to tie them to objects, for example, look at a book and explain - green leaves on trees, a yellow sun, etc. Let the child see everything in comparison, do not demand to remember and repeat a hundred times, let it be natural.
A few simple rules for teaching colors
- When dressing a child, name the color of the clothes;
- Considering something on the street, name the color;
- When drawing or playing with a child, name a color;
- When you have dinner, set the table with the baby, buy napkins and plates of different colors, when you give the baby a mug - name the color of his favorite mug (toys, pot, things, etc.)
- Speak your actions, mentioning the colors: in the sandbox - a red bucket, a green spatula, etc.
Simple games for memorizing colors
Games that help remember colors can be played anywhere: on the playground, at home, in transport.
- 1. Find as many objects of the same color as possible (for example, in an apartment).
- 2. "And you - and I have" - I have black tights, and you? I have red shoes, what about you? And so on.
- 3. Scatter colored pencils, show a pencil of any color and ask the baby to "Give me the same one."
- 4. Give toys objects of a certain color: the bear is all brown, the bunny is all orange, and so on.
- 5. What is green? (or - what happens in red?).
- 6. Sorting toys: There is nothing easier when you clean a room with your baby, sorting toys by color.
- 7. We feed animals with colored food. For example, a cat eats only white cubes (milk), a monkey loves yellow bananas (we give all yellow items to her).
- 8. Read poems about the rainbow.
- 9. Learn colors using cars on the street. It is very exciting not only for children, but also for adults.
- 10. The most harmful way to learn colors is to learn to distinguish colors with the help of colored sweets, dragees. Guess I ate it. Didn't guess, put it aside.
- 11. Make colored houses for your favorite cartoon characters.
- 12. Take colored cardboard, cut out colored figures (circles, squares, etc.). Lay out whole colored sheets and ask the child to take the figurine to the rug of the same color, while naming the colors: take the yellow circle to the yellow rug, and now the red triangle to the red rug.