Dear Reader;
Remember the color paddles we borrowed? We are almost on our way to take them back, but when my preschooler saw me set them down by the door so I didn’t forget them, she asked to play with them again. There was still time, so I figured it was a good thing to take up time this morning! Today, I told her to go on a color hunt!
I told her to go find a matching color to all her paddles and set them next to the color. Super not planned, but totally counting it as intentional learning. She had a blast! She turned it into a race to see how fast she could put all the colors next to something.
The yellow went next to flounder. The purple matched up with this book. Blue ended up in a shoe. Green went on sister’s blanket. Her coat was red, and the farm toy was orange. She already knows her colors so this activity was definitely easy for her. If you have a younger preschooler, this activity would be perfect. But it made her think, all the same; it’ll still be fun for an older preschooler just because it involves thinking outside of the “what color is this, what color is this?” concept as toddlers are learning colors. And matching is still fun for preschool aged kids.
