How to teach a child flowers

Trying to teach a child flowers should startfrom about two years. Of course, this depends on the individual pace of development of your child, but it is not too early to start - the child simply does not understand what you want from him. Usually at the age of two the child already discerns colors, he just does not know how to call them. So your task is to teach him how to relate the color of the object and the name of the color.

The first thing to begin with is an emphasis on the color of objects. "It's a yellow cube." "This is a blue car." The mistake of some parents is that they finish this first step. You can not teach a child flowers, simply by pronouncing them - so he will not learn to relate color to the subject. From the fact that you just tell the child "This cube is red," it does not follow that he immediately understands that red is the color, and how the red cube differs from blue.

Therefore, the next step is sorting of objects by color. Before that, you need to play with the child in the games onsorting by other signs, more obvious for the child, so that he understands the very principle of sorting. You can start, say, with searching for paired objects or relating an object to its image.

When the kid learns sorting in principle, you can try to teach his flowers by sorting. Say, offer him to split into two heaps blue and red cubes. First do it with him, sayingcolor when sorting. To facilitate the task, you can put red cubes in a red box, blue ones in blue. You can choose pairs of the right color for pair objects (mittens, socks). When a child learns how to sort objects by color, you can ask him: "Where are the red / blue cubes?"

By the way, to start, do not need to take a lot of colors. Start with four basic ones - red, blue,yellow green. Choose from them a pair, red-blue (it is undesirable to take pairs of red-green and blue-green). When the child learns to distinguish between red and blue, add a yellow one to make two new pairs - red-yellow and blue-yellow.

You can teach your child colors using special games, also designed for sorting. For example, it is often used game "Pockets". It is necessary to make small multi-colored pocketsfrom cloth or paper, and then ask the child to arrange for them images of objects familiar to him according to color. For example, in a green pocket - a leaf, a lizard, gooseberry. In red - an apple, a poppy flower, a strawberry.

Another game for sorting is "Dress Up". Invite the child to dress up somea toy in clothes of the same color. Well, if the color of clothes will be correlated with the name of the toy. For example, you can put a Red Riding Hood in all red, Snow White - in all white. For this game, however, you need to have enough doll clothes.

Teach your child colors and help drawing. More often draw with your kid, using bright colors. You can, for example, ask him to choose from two markers any one. Say, ask him to find a felt-tip pen to draw the sun, and give a choice of yellow and blue markers. Still it is possible in the course of drawing to choose caps for markers: red - red, green - green, etc. And older children can be offered coloring pages, along with them selecting believable colors for objects. Well helps and molding from plasticine, it additionally develops small motor skills.

When a child learns to distinguish between the main colors, You can experiment by drawing, mixing them. Say, get a green color by mixing the blue andyellow paint. To do this, you need to use special finger paints - they are absolutely safe for children, and you should not be afraid, even if the child pulls smeared with paints fingers in the mouth.

In fact, to teach a child flowers is not so difficult. Usually the child perfectly distinguishes colors, simply does not know how to call them. Be patient and do not require the baby all at once - then you certainly will succeed!