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These Shape and Color activities are the perfect way to teach these important skills to kids. Typically, they are taught beginning at the toddler stage and continue throughout preschool and kindergarten. The topic of shapes and colors serve as a key foundation to developing various other skills in the future.
Benefits Of Learning
Learning shapes at a young age prepares children for future math skills. This includes geometry as well as other math related skills such as size, position, and spatial sense. Sorting and classifying shapes and colors is an important entry into developing more advanced skills such as problem solving, categorizing, visual discrimination and more.
When learning shapes and colors, children will also be strengthening their descriptive skills. Learning the vocabulary to describe the various shapes and colors is excellent for future literacy.
Another great benefit to teaching your children shapes and colors is strengthening observational skills. Before children can describe what they see, they have to learn how to observe.
Simple Ideas For Teaching
- Sensory bins
- Printables
- Scavenger Hunts
- Crafts
Our Favorite Shape Activities
- Transportation Shape Playdough Mats
- Patriotic Shape Playdough Mats
- Farm Animal Do A Dot Shape Printables
- Apple Shape Matching Game
- Farm Animal Shape Tracing
- Find and Color Shape Worksheets
- Free Printable Shape Tracing
- DIY Sponge Stamps
Our Favorite Color Activities
- Summer Color By Number
- Color Exploring Mouse Paint Activity
- Apple Color Mixing Science Experiment
- Butterfly Color Count and Match
- Egg Carton Crafts: A Color Sorting Activity
- Experimenting With Color Flowers
- Exploring Color With Your Preschooler
- Color and Shape Sorting Mats
- Shape Sorting With Connect 4
- Color Recognition With Stickers
- Color Cards For Toddlers
- Mouse Paint Inspired Color Matching Game
- Counting & Color Sorting Printables
- Toddler Coloring Pages
- A Color of His Own: Shrinky Dink Activity
- Color Mixing Jars With Mouse Paint
- Bear Sees Colors: Color Hunt For Toddlers
- Make A Rainbow With Playdough
- Spin and Splat Color Activity
- Printable Rainbow Color Activity
- Free Printable Color Flap Activity
- Rainbow Color Printables
- Spring Color By Number
- Easter Color By Number
