Teaching colours is a very interesting and easy topic. Kids love it. For toddlers, I'd recommend introducing one colour a day, so make it a week of an exciting journey into the colourful world. And for older kids - three colours a day + words you can use them with. it can either be I like +color (我喜欢X色) or just some objects like:
红色的苹果
黄色的香蕉
and so on...
I also absolutely recommend this song, almost all the kids can sing it.
Here some ideas on how to introduce colours to kids.
RED/ 红色
1. Find as many red items in the room as possible and name them.
2. Paint both hands red and with fingers closed together stomp them to the paper to make a heart.
3. Bring tomatoes, apples, strawberries, blindfold the kids and let them guess what is what.
4. Let the kids cut out triangular, square, rectangular and circle from the red paper.
5. Think of at least five objects that are red and draw them.
There are plenty of other ideas on Pinterest, but these are my favourite.
Using the big posters like this one.
And then use a play dough, stickers, markers or paints to decorate the character. You can just make a bigger version in word or in powerpoint.
Yellow/黄色
1. Draw the sun with a toothbrush or a spoon.2. Let the kids use fingers or cotton pads to make yellow spots, then use a marker to draw eyes, beaks and legs to turn it into a chick/小鸡。3. Dye the rice yellow or use the kinetic sand to hide some yellow objects inside. Let the kids enjoy the treasure hunt.4. Let the kids cut out triangular, square, rectangular and circle from the yellow paper.
When the two colours are introduced, use any flashcards, or objects for the sorting activity.
Blue/蓝色
1. Take a brush or an old toothbrush dive them into blue watercolour and let the kids shake it on the white paper to make raindrops.
2. Draw an umbrella/雨伞 use white school glue to make dots, then hung the pictures to dry. This will give you the raindrop effect! It is not my idea, but I find it absolutely adorable. here is the source
3. 蓝色的大海
Fill the container with water put some blue or sea related objects inside and let the kids take them out with a scoop.
Green/绿色
1. Fringe green paper strips to make grass/草. Then cut the grass.
2. Find the twig, cut out the leaves/叶子 from green paper and let the kids stick green leaves to the twig!
3. Bring a jar of beans/peas/绿豆 let the kids grab the beans, let them first estimate how many beans they got, then let them count the beans to check the guess.
4. 黄+蓝=绿
Prepare zip lock bags put some yellow and blue paint inside. Zip the bags, make the kids mix the colours.
Orange / 橙色
1. 橙=橙子
Cut an orange into a half, dip the cut side in orange colouring and stamp it on the white paper.
2. 橙色的鱼
Cut out the fish shape and cut the circles from the orange paper, let the kids glue the “scales” to the fish/鱼.
3. Put the bottom of the plastic bottle into the orange paint and let the kids stamp it to make pretty orange flowers/花.
Purple/ 紫色
Purple flowers
1. Put the white flowers into the purple coloured water, wait until the flowers turn purple.
2. Sort m&ms or skittles, take out all the purple ones
3. In a small plastic or glass bottle put some red/红 and blue/蓝 dye, add water and glitters or glue with glitters. Shake it to see the glitters dance and the water turns purple.
4. Make small balls of purple play dough and stick them to the paper to make grapes/葡萄.
Print three sets of flashcards with colours, with pinying and with the meaning, mix them all together and let the kids sort them.
To Be Continued.
I will try to make a video tomorrow on how to play with colour palettes.
