Car colour practise
As mentioned before, N’s not too hot at colours.
I lie, he knows the names of the colours, and nods if I ask what colour they are. Â But he’s still obsessed with saying yellow to everything.
Although now we have black as well. Â Combined with ‘black mummy’s car’ because I have a new car. Â Grandma also has a black car, as has his aunt, so he’s pretty hot on black.
Now when we’re driving round I ask him/tell him what colour car is in front, and any that we go past. Â Quite often he still suggests a car might be yellow (‘sweetheart, there’s not many yellow cars around’), and even though there’s limited tractor colours he still struggles with those, but we’ll get there in the end. Â Plus it gives me a chuckle when driving and starts conversations that we have.
When we see a certain colour, I try to relate it back to something that he sees all the time, like a (navy) blue car and mummy’s jeans. Â Hopefully this will help to reinforce the colours and learn the breadth of them over time.
Do you have any other tips for learning colours?