Playfully teach the history of colors in kindergarten
Teaching children to paint in kindergarten is not too complicated a matter. However, it is important to use materials that make it clear which color looks what, and an interesting story to make the surrounding area exciting.
Materials to illustrate colors in kindergarten
- To illustrate the colors for children in the kindergarten you should choose materials that contain one or more distinct colors - this does not include flowing transitions.
- For example, you can cut cardboard sheets into squares and laminate them. If necessary, write the color on one of the pages as well.
- Visual material such as flowers, for example red tulips or others, can be wonderfully incorporated into the play of colors.
- Fabrics can also be used well - if your story talks about a "red dress", for example, this can be ideally illustrated with materials that you can touch.
- Touching materials is often a means to bring the children closer to the color or better with it can be internalized: An apple can be red, yellow or green, you can touch it, taste it and possibly even smell. So the children can be active with all their senses.
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How to create a story for children with colors
- Think in advance about which colors to use in which place in connection with what in your Want to incorporate history: Little Red Riding Hood's red dress, the brown fur of the wolf, the green firs and trees with the green ones Scroll.
- All of these materials can be bought - sometimes you can - from stores, a craft store, or a sewing accessory store They also ask whether there are any scraps of fabric or cardboard that you can take with you at a reasonable price or even get them for free can. Leaves and pine cones or the like can be easily collected together with the children.
- You don't necessarily have to come up with a story - one too fairy tales the Brothers Grimm can serve its purpose.
- But think of it yourself, write it down on a piece of paper beforehand and mark the places where you want to install the colored materials.
- Give the children time to look at them, touch them and marvel at them, this is very important in kindergarten.
- In this way you make a learning story playful.
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