Week 1 - Color Sampler

*Red

More than likely, your preschooler already has an idea about most colors.

In 'school', you'll begin showing them not only to recognize each color, but to also begin to recognize how to spell it.

Make a flashcard together out of either white construction paper or cut up poster board, tracing the outline of the word ‘R-E-D’ somewhere on it in large letters (block letters).

Say each letter as you write, you’ll be amazed at how quickly your child will learn the letters of the alphabet if you spell aloud each thing you write.

Take a sheet of red construction paper, and either allow your preschooler to tear or cut up small pieces of it.

I would highly recommend tearing first, especially if your child doesn't know how to do this yet. This is a fine motor skill that they need to learn before moving on to scissors.

I personally was surprised that as much as my son was able to do with his hands from an early age, he wasn't able to tear paper! Of course, my daughter (18 months at the time), picked up on this tearing lesson quickly as began tearing everything

Use your own judgement, but teaching their hands to work together is important

For the next step, again working with your child, spread out glue inside the R-E-D letters, and have them place the torn paper inside.

This gives an excellent visual of the color red as well as how to spell it! After dry, trace your fingers over the word , spelling it out as you go

Hang on the wall or use as a flashcard each day for review.