Color Hunt

Materials:

Shoe boxes

Construction paper

Small toys around the house

Skills: Color Identification, Classifying

1) Wrap shoe boxes in construction paper.

2) Focusing on one color for a week or month (depending on age), lead your child on a color hunt. Find toys or objects around the house that match that color box and let your child collect them in the box. (Before moving on to the next color, leave 3-5 small objects or toys in that particular box and put the box away for later)

3) When you have introduced 2 different colors, bring both boxes out. Tell your child, "Look we have a box of red things and a box of blue things". Dump them out and say "Can you put all of the red things in this box and all of the blue things in this box?"

4) Each time you add a new color, provide a time for your child to practice sorting the colors.