Encouraging color identification helps children’s cognitive and behavioral development
In early childhood education, it is important to allow children to visualize, explore, contact and handle the various objects that make up the universe of colors and shapes, allowing their identification. Colors, in particular, are also important for expressing ideas and feelings, using painting, drawing, engraving and theatre. It is an element that has different meanings depending on the cultures and its analysis allows us to better understand its possibilities.
Colors are present in the world around us. They are one of the basic concepts that children need to develop. Furthermore, they are also important for being able to express our ideas and feelings, discovering the meaning they have for each person.
Influence of colors on the brain
Below, see how colors affect the brain!
Blue
Blue is associated with trust, security, calm, depth, stability, success, Health and healing.
Red
This color is associated with courage, leadership, energy, danger, strength, power, desire, love and virility. It is linked to the idea of avoiding or not using a certain object, such as the red elevator button, used only in extreme cases.
Yellow
Yellow is associated with stimulation, energy, warmth, joy, optimism, hope and spontaneity.
Green
This color is associated with nature, vitality, freshness, harmony, fertility, renewal, abundance, security and money.
Orange
It is associated with friendship, enthusiasm, charm, joy, creativitydetermination, attraction, success, encouragement, drive and stimulation.
Viola
This color is associated with wisdom, independence, creativity, art, culture, wealth, extravagance, optimism, royalty, spirituality, mystery and magic.
Role of colors in child development
The use of colors has a direct link with the child’s development. The stimuli resulting from the presence of colored figures contribute to the improvement of motor and cognitive skills, reasoning, speech, hearing, among other functions. This happens because children are completely influenced by colors from the early stages of life, extending for many years.
Calling the child’s attention, at home and at school, to the colors of common objects, toys, games and clothes is very important for learning to be stimulated and consolidated, since the learning of nuances occurs at all times.
Activities to encourage color identification
To stimulate the brain by learning colors, there are various activities that guarantee fun learning. I wait!
- Arrange the children in a circle so everyone can look at each other and interact. Talk about the colors that surround them, the drawings on the walls, the students’ clothes and shoes;
- Listen to the song “Arco-Íris” and record with paint the colors mentioned in the music. Then, create a rainbow, trees, butterflies, stamping them with your hands and posting them in the room.
- Play with rainbow-colored playdough;
- Listen to the song “Aquarela”. Record, using watercolor colored pencils;
- Introduce the logical blocks and enhance their primary colors. Let the children play with the pieces, always taking the opportunity to mention the colors and shapes;
- Distribute colorful geometric shapes throughout the class and ask the children to find them.
- Encourage them to describe the name and color. Ask them to glue this figure onto a sheet of paper and use it to make a drawing;
- Observe nature and the sun and, on a sheet of paper, ask them to draw the sun and the observed nature, using different colours.
By Bianca Acampora
Teacher, visual artist, PhD in Educational Sciences and Neurolearning specialist. Author of the book “170 Art Therapy Techniques: Expressive Modalities for Various Areas”.
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