Today’s activity focuses on colour recognition, fine motor ability and language skills. This colour matching game is an easy project to create that can benefit children’s visual discrimination, using their hand muscles in complex ways and learn new words through conversing with adults. 

What You will Need 

Process 

Engaging with Your Child 

This activity will give your child an opportunity to recognize and distinguish between colours while refining their fine motor skills. Invite your child to play by saying “Can you match the pins to their colours on the sheet?”. Enrich this activity by naming the colours your child is holding. If your child knows their colours, ask them questions like “Where is red?” and wait for your child to find it. If your child is not familiar with their colours yet, narrate the colours they choose like “I see you have the colour blue”. You can enrich this activity further through conversing about each colour. For example, “I love the colour green. What can you think of that is green?” or “What can you find around us that is the colour green”. Give your child the time they need to match the colours to their spots. Remember, something as simple as squeezing the clothespins may be easy for us, but is much more difficult for young children to do. Be supportive and patient with your child as they begin to strengthen their fine motor skills. Encourage their efforts and have loads of fun! 
 

Tip: Extend this activity by taking it outdoors. You can take the coloured clothespins and ask your child to go on a scavenger hunt during your outdoor time to match the pins to things they see.