Red, purple, yellow, blue? The world around you is multi-colored! At two years old your child already distinguishes colors and knows that objects are also differentiated by their tone, which does not necessarily mean that they know how to name each one appropriately. We tell you how to help him.
Around his first year of life, your son lives a stage full of discoveries. Observe and study everything around you, its shape and its place in space. You may have already noticed that their games are practically based on stacking and fitting objects, thus assimilating the concepts of above, below, in front, behind, large, small, etc. The learning of the colors will be later.
Although you can already discern and identify objects based on their predominant color, you will still need time to memorize and name the various shades. And it is that the palette is infinite, without counting the different nuances, ranges, mixtures, etc.
Therefore you should not be alarmed if your child insists one day to say that his ball is orange and the next day yellow. For children this age, associating the name of a specific color with an object is still difficult to understand. They are abstract concepts that will take time to assimilate. Although you, at home, can help him establish the bases of this learning.
Step by Step
Learning colors is a process with three different phases:
1. At first the child perceives the colors, but does not distinguish them.
2. Then distinguish the colors and recognize that they are different
3. Finally, it is able to compare and relate two or more objects with the same property, color. (The blue plate and the blue glass).
To teach him the colors, it is convenient to start doing it one by one, in a progressive and logical way, starting with the primary ones (blue, red and yellow). The next step will be to assimilate the concepts of light and dark and later the secondary colors.
Without a doubt the red color is the most striking and attractive for the eyes of the little one and therefore the most easily recognizable. Choose this color to capture their attention. Let him know that his car is red and very beautiful, like roses or tomatoes. Thus, there is the red car and the car that is not red. Once you have learned this concept, you can add one more color.
This option is more effective than presenting you with the same object in multiple colors, especially if you don’t yet handle the language very well.
Little by little he will be distinguishing the colors, as his language also develops. Although if it takes to acquire this skill do not obsess. It is preferable that the learning be progressive and natural, not an intensive course.
In your conversations with him, get used to adding next to the name of each thing or everyday gesture the color that accompanies it (? Take it, the pink rope? I am folding the blue pants?). When asking for the name of a color, it is more effective to ask the question indirectly? Can you give me the green down? ? Do you want the red or blue shirt ?, instead of doing it directly:? What color is this down? If you do so you will avoid getting tired of the question? What color is it ? of the day.