This morning I quickly put together this very basic Colours and Shapes
board to help Joshua learn. He is great at saying his colours but tends to mix some of them up. Twice he has had a giggling 'discussion' with Uncle Luke over whether a colour was yellow or red, for example. I'll leave it up to you to guess who was right!
While I cut out shapes, Joshua tore paper into 'shapes' of some sort.
While I taped the shapes onto the cardboard,
Joshua stuck his shapes together with bits of sticky tape.
He did a good job. =)
Then we practised and because he already knows the general colours, he managed to get most of them right. Shapes will take even more practise. Though he did keep pointing at the circles saying "round and round"!
Next it was time for Playdough.
He diligently cut and sawed away at the lump of dough;
until he had a nice collection of playdough strips in his tin. :)
Maybe he thought he was cooking up a real treat?
And throughout that time,
little brother Jonathan slept peacefully in his cot. Zzzzzz!
That's lovely...special time with Joshua! :D
ReplyDeleteLovely mother and son activity.
ReplyDeletei remember well the wonderful first steps of planning activities to enjoy with our first born, while his siters slept;-) Introducing paints in primary colours and a brush was interesting - all he wanted to do was mix the colours in varying quantities to see what happened!