Teach your baby colors

From birth to 3 years old babies are absorbing everything from their surroundings.  Learning is not an effort or a chore, it is what they are wired to do from birth.  By being aware of this we can easily teach our babies many things on a daily basis, just by changing the way we behave.

In order to teach your baby to identify colors, all you need to do is talk about colors from birth.  As you dress your baby describe the color dress you are putting on.  You can identify the color of the toys you are playing with, the food you are eating and so forth.  Babies naturally and easily learn their colors well before their 1st birthday if taught in this manner.  You can also create a flash card of the color word.   Show your baby the word and then identify objects of that color.  Your baby will learn to read the word as easily as they will learn their colors.

You can find out if your baby knows their colors by placing two or more objects of different colors in front of them and asking them to choose green or red, and so forth.  At ten months old my daughter could correctly identify her colors, even though she couldn't speak.



Posted by Krista G. at 3/25/2009 8:15 AM
Categories: Teaching Ideas
 

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