Easy Reading Activities for Children (1)

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Top Color Activities for Children
1) Point Out the Colour Children can be
taught about colours by introducing primary
colours such as yellow, red and blue by pointing
to vegetables, fruits and animals with the
corresponding colour. Prominent colours such as
red, blue, yellow, white and black are a good
foundation. The next step involves getting
children to develop different drawings and
utilise crayons corresponding to the taught
colours to help children identify with the
colours they are using. Colour association is the
subsequent step in this process. For example, if
a child is taught about trees, they can associate
green and brown with them. This practice needs to
repeat until children can comfortably associate
colours with the world around them. Colour is a
complicated subject, and what children learn is
essentially nothing but a superficial aspect of
the field. Therefore, maximise that situation by
making sure the child has as much fun as possible
to satisfy their vigour for learning and
imagination capacity. Making the activity fun is
also easy to bond with the child. Benefits of
performing this activity for children include
tapping into the explorative nature through using
all senses, sensory and messy play, early maths
concepts such as capacity. This conceptual
understanding is achieved through filling empty
containers with colour and introducing the
concepts of relative emptiness. This activity
is great for kids because they learn to explore
the world using every one of their senses. The
combination of messy and sensory play is also the
most enriching kind of engagement for kids. This
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• activity is also helpful for kids because it
  introduces them to different maths concepts like
  the number of colours. Also, utilising containers
  helps teach them concepts like relative fullness
  - full, half full and empty. This activity also
  teaches children literary skills - mainly
  descriptive language development. They develop
  this by describing the colour, smells and reminds
  them of. These types of activities should be
  included in the kindergarten education.
• 2) Coloured Ice Blocks
• Colours are a brilliant experience for all ages,
  and it's especially magnificent for children as
  they can see how colours mix and create other
  colours. Combining the primary colours with
  coloured ice blocks is an excellent opportunity
  to see how the colour spectrum interacts with
  each other in a fun and exciting way. Children
  can see how colours mix and blend to form new
  colours. Children can combine the three primary
  colours in various permutations and combinations
  to create many secondary and tertiary colours.
• To conduct this activity, you will need the
  following equipment
• ice cube trays
• red, blue, yellow food colouring
• warm water
• 7 glasses or clear containers like jars
• Before starting the activity, five ice cubes need
  to be coloured with food colouring diluted with
  water. Using warm water for this activity ensures
  it works best as it speeds up melting the ice
  blocks. However, Children can add cold water
  instead if the activity needs to take longer for
  a particular reason.
• This activity aims to showcase to children how
  primary colours can interact and form secondary
  colours like green, orange, and purple.
• The following benefits are obtained from this
  activity

2) toy cars
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• 3) large sheet of rectangular paper
• Masking tape.
• To construct the car activity, masking tape will
  have to be used to hold the paper in place, so
  during the painting phase of this activity,
  children cannot move the piece while painting. On
  each end of the sheet, place a blob of paint of
  various colours, but make sure the matched colour
  isn't in a symmetric position so the cars will
  have to cross paths to match the colour.
• For example, the red car is in red paint and
  drives towards the red colour on the other side
  of the paper. This gets repeated for all colours
  on one side of the paper. At the end of the
  activity, the result is cars in the correct
  position and a mixture of colour streaks that
  help children understand colours better by
  checking their observation and having fun.
• Having the children drive back to the original
  spots afterwards or on the previous pathway
  results in various kinds of overlapping and new
  colours. Every time a new colour gets created,
  it's a fantastic opportunity to initiate a
  conversation about colour mixing.
• This activity helps children learn fine motor
  development, hand-to-eye coordination, control,
  cause and effect relationships, matched colours
  and colour recognition, spatial awareness
  development and language development regarding
  the new colours, terms and processes involved.
• Colours with Buttons and Pop Sticks
• Buttons and Pop Sticks is a game or activity that
  lets children explore their environment freely
  and experiment with essential items they provide.
  Children can create multiple pictures with sticks
  and buttons. They have the option to balance the
  buttons along with the pop sticks. They can even
  do colour matching with these items. There are
  plenty of great options!
• To conduct this activity, you will require both
  small and large coloured plain pop sticks and a
  bevvy of coloured buttons.
• Making pictures and patterns with the buttons and
  pop sticks is one option. Another is to classify
  and match the coloured buttons after sorting them
  and connect them to the pop stick with the
  corresponding colour.