The final batches of leaves are falling from trees everywhere, creating spectacular piles (and messes!) for adults to clean up. However, as time consuming as it can be to get lawns ready for winter, there are also some fun uses for all of those fall leaves during this time of year. One of those is to teach color recognition to children.
Color recognition is an important part of early childhood knowledge, in that learning to identify colors early on helps create a mental link between visual clues (in this case, the leaves) and words (or actual color names).
Incorporating the teaching of color recognition can be as simple as taking a fall walk Cheri dvdrip . There is little young children enjoy more than stomping down a tree-lined path in a pair of boots, listening to the leaves crunch. So why not use this time to engage them in a little learning at the same time? With leaves truly running the gamut of the color spectrum this time of year there are plenty of easy opportunities to enhance children’s color recognition skills right in your own backyard
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Another fun way to teach color recognition with fall leaves is by having children pick up their favorite leaf specimens, either from your yard or from a nature walk (or even the local playground!), and then assisting them in their preservation and identification by doing a wax paper leaf pressing The Iron Giant Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey move . This definitely needs an adult’s supervision, but is a very simple way to engage children in a fun color recognition exercise that will not only increase their knowledge, but also provide a great memory for both of you well into the future.
Here are some other games for your children utilizing nature.