Teaching Colours

When we went to playcentre many years ago a fellow mother gave me this idea and although it was too late for Sarah and Jaimie, I used it for Chloe and Michael.

Each week choose a different colour and focus on it e.g. blue, there's a blue car, the sky is blue, this top is blue, blue playdough and my kids even had blue baths.

I taught them the primary colours first red, blue and yellow and then the secondary colours with the rest following. To teach them secondary colours I put a primary colour at each end of the bath and we would watch them magically become another colour. To colour the bath I used food colouring - the bath never stained and neither did the kids.