If you purchased my Toddler Learning Resource: Colors, Matching, Patterns, & Shapes, I hope you are having the most wonderful time teaching and learning with your toddler. In the Colors section, my child loves the songs, coloring with crayons, and getting to use dry erase marker on the pages I laminated. As I was teaching my toddler, I noticed I was implementing additional color activities that weren't included in my original resource. These activities included paint and stickers and pom pom balls and play dough and anything else I could find around the house. I would throw together these activities very haphazardly, and they ended up being so successful. You all were so supportive of my original resource, that I just couldn't help myself but to put together this new resource, completely focused on Colors. My NEW RESOURCE, Color Activities, covers the same 11 colors as my original Toddler Learning Resource (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Pink, Gray, Brown, Black, and White). In this new resource, you'll find 112 pages of color activities! Let me quickly walk you through what the resource includes and ideas on how to use it. I'll link to Amazon along the way! Bubble Words & Line Words I probably should do some research on this, but I'll just share my heart on the subject anyways. I believe it is so valuable for our kiddos to see words & letters at an early age. Even if they are entirely too young to understand, we can expose them to written language. It won't hurt, right?! Dot painting is our favorite way to use the bubble words printable. As my child paints the word "Red", I'll point to the "R" and say "R". He will then dot paint that letter. We then move on to "E" and "D". So a few things here--my toddler is hearing letter names at an early age, but he is also following directions and working on his motor skills as he paints a specific area of the page. He really loves to try and only paint inside of the bubble letters, and I just love to watch his determination and success! Stickers are our favorite way to use the line words. You simply have your toddler use stickers to outline the color word. I will be honest, though... it's currently a struggle for us and requires a lot of modeling. No matter if he gets it "right" or "wrong" he looks at me and claps so enthusiastically. So for this activity, I use a whole lot of positive reinforcement and scaffolding. We'll get there... one day! (I linked some stickers from Amazon, but mine were actually left over from my classroom. Check the Target $1 spot or your local dollar store for stickers!) Here's a few other ideas:
Dot Pictures When I first started to teach my toddler colors, I bought a pack of sticky dots at the dollar store. This was right around the time he became obsessed with stickers. I was amazed at how much fun he had sorting the different colored stickers onto their matching colored paper. So I began to seek out other ways for us to use these sticky dots in our learning. The dot picture pages are the perfect size for sticky dots. Is that even what they are called? Who knows! Regardless, my toddler enjoys this activity way more than I ever imagined possible. He is becoming more and more independent and can complete this activity all on his own. And all the mamas said, "Hallelujah!" One of my tips to make this activity easier for your toddler is to take off that white sticky backing part of the sticker sheet. You may have no clue what I'm talking about right now, but I assure you, once you look at a sticker sheet, you're going to have a big ole "duh" moment like I did. Removing that sticky backing allows your toddler to peel off the stickers ALL BY THEMSELVES. Amen. We also use our handy dot markers with these pages. Needless to say, he loves trying to fill in the dots! Color Pictures Okay, okay I promise these aren't just glorified coloring pages. We use these pages in so many ways:
For a peek into our learning, head to my Instagram story highlights: @francieoutlaw. Enjoy learning colors with your toddlers, mamas! My prayer is that this resource of color activities brings a whole lot of fun into your learning!
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janice Hines
8/10/2023 11:35:01 am
thank you
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