Feb 21, 2009

Colouring Activities while building fine motor skills

Colouring or painting your little one's world is the best gift that Daddy and Mummy can give ones child. We are fortunate to live in a colourful world where the thought of leaves brings about the colour green, the sunflower yellow, the ocean a turqoise blue in our minds.
I have always wondered how it would have been to live a colourless life. I have been watching a few cartoons on Disney like MickeyMouse Club House, Pooh etc picking up on the same concept of colour education with interesting episodes and stories like wiping off colours from the rainbow, or a sudden magic that makes Noddy's town go colourless.
A baby slowly realizes the value of colours while he /she is growing up. We as parents can make them recognize the different colours so they can enjoy colours as well. Children by nature love colours. Hence, many to-be parents start getting the nurseries ready with a splash of colour while waiting for the new one's arrival.
To teach your little one the concept of colours you can use a variety of apporaches. You can show him/her colours in various forms of existence in day-to-day life. Another approach could be to let him/her play with colours. A few crayons can engage him/her, while he/she enjoys, dabbles and explores. It will also secretly help in building his fine motor skills.
With every stroke on the paper, an impression is made on the paper, not to forget the lasting impression of the impact of colour on your child's mind.


This is a drawing made by Ru where she enjoyed repeating the names of the colours while playing with crayons on 21st Feb 2009 while her dad sat in the balcony drawing with his own set of colours.
Here are her few initial efforts with crayons while she watched the difference in colours with every change of crayon.

The second drawing done immediately after shows her level of progression while she got engrossed trying to experiment a bit more with the same colours.

Besides, you could try reading books on colours like Brown bear, brown bear, buy cds on colour (bought one recently) or show the colours on her dress each new day.

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