Some children begin to consciously distinguish colors before the age of one, but this is rare. In the vast majority of babies, these abilities appear from 1.5 to 2.5 years. Possible exercises for learning colors depend on the level of knowledge about the world around us and development fine motor skills. Below are the basic games and techniques for the first acquaintance with flowers.

Features of studying flowers with the smallest ones are that new objects and materials for study must be introduced gradually. Many properties of unfamiliar materials can distract the baby from the main theme - color. Therefore, if the child is not yet familiar with drawing and sculpting, then before starting to study colors, be sure to conduct several classes-acquaintances with paints and plasticine.

Learning colors | Ready to learn

Ikea plastic dishes go well with sponge cubes for washing dishes

To test the readiness to learn colors, provide the child with a set of objects of the same shape and size different colors and ask them to divide into groups - sort. If the baby copes without difficulty, you can begin to study individual colors.

Item options for sorting:

• cubes;
• details of constructors (Lego, etc.) and mosaics;
• buttons;
• colored plastic utensils;
• foam rubber cubes from a sponge for washing dishes (In order to get cubes, you need to separate the hard dark green layer and cut the sponge with scissors. The green layer comes off neatly if you first wet and dry the sponge a couple of times).

Learning colors | Color day plan

After you have identified that the child successfully copes with distinguishing colors, you can begin to study them. It is better to spend the whole day studying the first names of colors (red, yellow, blue, green) (for each color for a day). For example, I will describe one day of studying color. Other colors will be studied similarly.

Plan of the day for the study of red:

1. We show a group of red objects and explain that they are red.

2. Draw a picture or paint a picture with red colors. If the baby is under two years old, one drawing tool is enough. For older kids, you can add variety using red paints, felt-tip pens, pencils and crayons. Modeling can be an alternative to drawing. If you like days full of activities, you can have time to draw and sculpt. For example, before daytime sleep drawing, and in the evening modeling. We read about modeling with kids and.

3. We offer sorting - choose red parts from the proposed set of toys and objects of different colors.

4. We arrange a "hunt" for red things. Together we are looking for red everywhere. At home - in the interior and clothes, on a walk, we ask you to show red cars.

5. We read books, look at cards with the image of red objects.

To increase the effectiveness of classes in the study of colors, it is necessary to actively use the names of the studied colors in speech. For example, we don’t say “Now let’s put on a blouse and go for a walk”, but “now we’ll put on red blouse ... "," We will eat red apple”, “Look how beautiful red car”, etc.

To make the child even more impressed, dress the child in red clothes and add foods of the studied color to the daily diet:

• Red - berries, tomatoes, paprika;
• Orange - pumpkin, carrot, orange;
• Purple - grapes, blueberries;
• Green - lettuce, peas, kiwi, avocado, grapes;
• Yellow - pineapple, banana, paprika, cheese;
• White - rice, cottage cheese, milk.

Learning colors | Drawing and modeling

Closer to two years, mixing dough for modeling and dye can be done together with the baby. In this case, of course, you must be ready to wash the soiled hands.

Creativity allows you to get the most in-depth knowledge about colors. At the beginning of acquaintance with colors, it is necessary to be creative using one studied color. When the baby grows up, we demonstrate how to get shades by mixing:

Learning colors | color lotto

There are many options for lotto. one of our choices. Rules of the game:

• We lay out cards with animals in front of the baby;
• We give the baby one card with a palette and ask him to find an animal of a given color.

You can also, on the contrary, issue cards with animals and ask them to pick up a palette.

After multiple successful palette selections, suggest a memory training game. Give your child a black and white version of the animal card and ask them to choose a palette.

Learning colors | flower books

To study flowers, you can buy books that are completely devoted to flowers, or you can use collections with various tasks. I described a large selection of collections with developmental exercises for babies 1-2 years old

From books about flowers, the following hits can be distinguished:

Encyclopedia about colors "Colorful World" from a series of chic encyclopedias "Why? From what? Why?" (Labyrinth, Ozone, My-Shop). Encyclopedias of this series are widely known. A convenient format (cardboard on a spring), windows and pleasant illustrations conquer everyone without exception.	“My first words. We play and learn colors ”Brooks Felicity of the publishing house Clover Media Group (Labyrinth, Ozone, My-Shop). There is also an edition of this book for study of English language(Labyrinth, Ozone, My-Shop) One of the most chic books about flowers. It has everything that kids love - funny little animals (monkeys), interesting tasks and windows!	Elmer David Mackey publishing Scooter (Labyrinth, Ozone, My-Shop) A funny story about a colored elephant who wanted to become gray like everyone else. Interesting how it ended!
"Learn colors and numbers" Klever Media Group (Labyrinth, Ozone, My-Shop) On each page of this book, a collage of photographs of objects certain color. Large-format plotless book-peeper is ideal for the little ones.	“Learning colors and counting” by Mann, Ivanov and Ferber (Labyrinth, Ozone, My-Shop) This is another book containing collages of objects of the same color. Collages involve not photos, but drawings.
"Colorful Elephants" Pitto Francesco (Labyrinth, Ozone, My-Shop) 44 pages of elephants in all sorts of colors! Particularly interesting are spreads containing a colored translucent film for "mixing" colors. Closing the red elephant with a film, we get an orange one, and the blue elephant with the film becomes green!	"What is blue" from the series Wonderful stickers published by Mosaic-Synthesis (Labyrinth, Ozone, My-Shop) The books in this series contain interesting tasks and cute stickers. The only negative is the disposability of the stickers. More detailed description from photo spreads read in

Toys and materials for learning colors

Learning colors | my approach

A few words about Yana's study of flowers. The ability to distinguish colors in her began to appear at 1.3. It was at this age that we learned red, yellow, blue. The first color was the most difficult, each subsequent one is easier. For us, it would be more effective to study colors from a year and a half, but I was very impatient 🙂 . By the age of 1 year. 6m. Yana mastered 10 primary colors. At that time, I offered her the simplest exercises. On the this moment we moved on to gaining skills in manipulating shades.

After the skill of studying colors was obtained, I thought about the advisability of cramming the names of a large number of shades and came to the conclusion that this is superfluous. We unobtrusively study only the most common ones (turquoise, light green, beige, etc.). In the future, I plan to expand to less common shade names that I use myself (champagne, lilac, indigo, etc.)

In any process, the choice of a goal is important, otherwise there will simply be no result. After studying the primary colors, my main goal was to teach Yana to match the colors of various objects and phenomena. I want her to be able to describe shades with images - "dark blue, like the sky early morning”, “blue, like the sea in clear weather”, “gray-blue, like the reflection of the sky in a dirty puddle”, etc.

In conclusion

The study of colors is a qualitative expansion of one's horizons. Recognizing colors, the child receives a new method of classifying all surrounding objects - by color. By the way, in addition to the developmental effect, knowledge of colors opens up a large number of the most interesting games with color.

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Primary color cards.

Electronic version - 24 sheets for printing on A4 format.

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As you know, if the child’s visual apparatus is not developed, then it will remain on children's level perception. In adulthood, it is much more difficult to develop any areas, including the visual apparatus.

I wonder how many colors the human eye can recognize?

Since ancient times, scientists have determined the number of colors and shades recognized by a person in different ways. Now they agree that there are about 150,000 color tones and shades. At the same time, the human eye under normal conditions can distinguish about 100 shades of the color background. The ability to recognize more colors can be trained. Artists, decorators, designers and people of similar professions can distinguish about 150 colors by hue, about 25 by saturation and up to 64 by light level.

The harmonious atmosphere of the surrounding space, the beauty of nature, painting, contemplation of works of art, and, of course, games to study colors and their shades will help develop these abilities.

We bring to your attention cards - the main colors and their shades in gradation from dark to light, which can be downloaded below. Cards without color names.

It is better to print them on photo paper (matte, glossy of your choice).

Each card has a duplicate - this is necessary for the implementation of color perception games described in this article.

You can use flashcards to learn the primary colors: black, white, grey, purple, blue, green, orange, yellow, brown and red. And also to study the gradation of their shades from dark to light.

The game is suitable for children from 1 year old.

Examples of games with cards of colors and their shades.

1. The study of primary colors.

Begin the study by offering the child flashcards with two colors.

For example, we show the baby 2 cards - red and green. Take a green card and, showing the child, say: "This is green." Then take a red card, saying: "And this is red."

Put both cards back in front of the baby and ask him: "Show me green" and then "Give me red."

Be sure to fix the names of colors in everyday life - at home, on a walk - ask the child to show red, green objects. Or yourself, pointing to the object, ask: “What color is it?”.

The main and very important thing is not to scold or get angry at the child if he confuses or does not want to name the colors. Not immediately, but it will definitely happen when the child will please you with his knowledge. For each correct answer, even if it seems elementary to you, praise, kiss and hug your beloved baby.

2. Find pairs of identical color cards.

This game is not only for the development of color perception, it also develops the thinking of your baby. Place 2 of the 3 contrasting colors (green, blue, red) in front of the child. Put a pair for each color. Lay all the cards randomly on the table. Point the child to one of the flowers and ask them to find the same one among the others.

You can do the same with color cards. And at first it is better to use shades of different colors, and then several shades of the same color.

3. Lay out the cards in groups.

Put 2 contrasting colors and their shades (for example, yellow and blue) in front of the child, mix and offer to sort into groups.

Then do the same with the colors of the groups that are closer to each other, for example, red and orange, blue and purple, etc.

Using this game, you can try to play with the whole family or between several children. There are as many color groups as there are participants. Each participant is assigned a color. All colors are mixed and each participant from the pile chooses his own color, placing its shades in gradation in a line.

4. Development of photographic memory for colors.

A few cards with colors and shades are laid out in front of the child. First use contrasting colors, then close ones.

Show the child a color card (preferably 5-10 seconds). Let him find the same among the cards on the table.

5. We lay out the colors and their shades in gradation from dark to light and vice versa.

To teach a child to lay out cards of colors and shades according to gradation correctly, you can use 2 methods:

Put the sample in front of the child. The main color and the gradation of its shades are drawn on the sheet. The kid lays out the cards according to the model.

By the pyramid method. Lay cards of the same color group in front of the child. Offer to find the most dark color and put down the card. Then let the child again choose the darkest one from the remaining ones and again put the card next to the first one chosen. Do the same with the rest of the cards.

When all the cards are correctly laid out (no matter how), be sure to review the gradation with your child. color cards: the darkest color first, then lighter, then even lighter, etc. to the brightest. Draw a line under the cards with your hand and tell the baby that this is how the sequence of cards looks like from dark to light.

Similarly, teach and lay out the cards in gradation from light to dark.

6. "Colorful cribs"

For this game, in addition to cards with primary colors and their shades, we will also need various paper animals, dolls, etc. , in general, those who can be "put to sleep."

Images with animals can be cut out from magazines, newspapers.

Take one set of cards of the same color group, put them in front of the child and tell them that these will be cribs for the animals, as they are very tired and want to sleep. Lay together with the child on each of the beds on the little animal. After that, give the child another set of duplicate cards and tell them that these will be blankets. It is cold for the animals to sleep, so you need to cover them with blankets, but so that the color of the “bed” matches the color of the “blanket”. Let the baby pick up a “blanket” for each “crib”. If the color does not match, say that this little animal is uncomfortable sleeping, he asks to change the blanket.

If the child wants to pack more animals, give him other color sets. But be sure not to issue a duplicate until the baby has decomposed the little animals, otherwise both color sets may mix up, which will make it difficult for the child to add.

Sing songs to animals to help them sleep better. Some let them get out of bed earlier than others - they slept or wanted to use the potty.

Cribs can be offered to the child to decompose not randomly, but according to the gradation of their shades. This can be argued by the fact that the color beds should be placed in this order, otherwise the animals will not go to sleep.

Download, play, share with us your fantasy-games with color cards.

Envelopes for storing cards.

For convenient storage of cards, templates for making envelopes for each color group have been added to the file.

Features of the paper version

18 A4 sheets with cards of colors and their shades, printed on matte photo paper 190 g/cu.m.

6 A4 sheets printed on 170gsm premium quality paper

Ksenia and I really like multifunctional toys, from which you can invent different games. Recently, I came up with the idea of ​​a large set of cards for studying colors. After that, Kostya and I developed our own version.

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Whole set

This game is an excellent Montessori material, as it allows the child to independently master it in different variations. Also, the set can be used for classic activities with kids.

Variations of using flashcards to learn colors:

1. Find the same items in different colors. For example, 8 bags: all colors of the rainbow + black.

Item cards (8 colors)

2. Collect all cards of the same color: 10 cards with objects + a card with a square of that color.

Cards with objects of the same color

3. Find all the cards with colors, put them in order, as in a rainbow.

Cards with flowers

5. Look-show-name. This option is the most popular with us, because my daughter has learned to speak well and now she enjoys pronunciation of words.

6. In addition to all the cards with objects and colors, there are 2 cards in the set: brown and pink. Using all the cards with squares of the color, you can play by matching items to the color of the cards.

Download the kit to your computer, print on a color printer and laminate. Then sit down for good film and cut out. I hope that your child will tell you for long work"Thanks" ;)

Moy said and put a set of cards in his bag, walks around with it and shows everyone a card. In response, we name the object and its color. This is how we learn in the meantime.

We wish you and your child to see a real rainbow!

Glen Doman is a well-known figure not only in physiology, but also in pedagogy. Cards for children are widely used today in preschool pedagogy for the rapid and comprehensive development of children's intelligence, as well as for the treatment of children with brain damage. You can also use Doman cards to study colors and their shades.

What is the essence of the technique?

How to apply the Doman technique to learn colors with a child?

The technique is based on the fact that the cards are pictures of any objects or phenomena with bright red inscriptions. Images with captions are shown to the child for 1-2 seconds for each picture. There should be about ten such lessons per day. As a result, the baby remembers the sound of the word, its name and its recording, quickly learns to read, acquires encyclopedic knowledge. Cards may feature colors instead of pictures. If it is not possible to buy Doman cards, they can be downloaded on our website and printed.

Why do we teach colors to children?

For children, the world is full of diversity; they do not yet have the hard-wired ideas that adults have. If you ask professional artist to say what color the sky is, he will tell you hundreds of shades, as he is used to noticing them every day. An ordinary person is unlikely to name at least 5-6 shades, since he is not used to distinguishing them. Children are little artists, and we teach them to stay that way longer. To do this, we not only study colors with them, but also focus on the shades of each of them. As a result, the baby begins to perceive the rich colors of the world, visual memory is activated, which means that the development of the intellect as a whole is stimulated. To study colors, just download the Doman cards for children on the topic “Colors” on our website and use them at home or in the classroom. At the same time, you can download them completely free of charge.

However, the following point should be taken into account. It’s not enough to download the cards - you need to print them later. Printer inks can have many shades and not always render the color correctly. So if we are studying pure colors, without impurities (for example, red, blue, yellow), then manuals printed on a printer are quite suitable. With shades of colors it is better to be careful. In this case, it is better to download the cards and show them on a computer or other electronic device, although it may introduce distortions, but to a lesser extent.

Doman's theory was a great success in its time, and today it remains popular in preschool pedagogy. But, like any educational system, it has its drawbacks. The child, visually perceiving the images and inscriptions on the cards, does not know how to apply this knowledge in practice. Therefore, when we teach colors to children, it is necessary to show what it is for. For children, it is better if they try to mix paints and get a similar shade, or, going outside, try to find such a color in nature.

Thus, when we teach preschoolers using Doman cards, it is always necessary to make a connection between theory and practice, image and reality, as much as possible. Then knowledge ceases to be a dead weight, as it often is during the school period. Let the child feel that this world is alive, and images and colors are only a way to get to know it deeper.

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