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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.