Your 3-Year-Old: Learning Colors
Learning Colors
Orange, blue, green, red, purple, yellow … learning colors is fun and easy for most preschoolers. 小馨最喜歡blue，也知道馬麻喜歡purple，基本上她已經可以區分顏色了，不用擔心她有色盲，哈！The trick is lots of practice. Fortunately, color is everywhere, so you can easily drop references to it into conversations, asking your child to bring you the blue socks or remarking that you're serving him green peas on his yellow plate. During a walk, see how many red objects you can find together.
不過這兩天小馨很調皮，昨晚下班帶著她去頂好超市，她竟然在車上時就說要買「香蕉」，然後接著又說要吃「木瓜」...明明知道這兩樣水果都是馬麻不敢吃也不敢碰的東西，竟然會這樣玩弄大人！
Your 3-year-old now
Three-year-olds are beginning to learn colors. They can usually point to a color when asked and may be able to name four or more by midyear. Some fun ways to help them nail this skill:
Weave color references into everyday conversation. "What color shirt do you want to wear today?" "Let's find a white car." When you're reading, ask him to find the red bird on the page, or ask him what color the duck is.
最近幫小馨買了一個桌子，希望她能夠在桌子玩黏土，沒錯！她最近迷上了黏土遊戲，不過她總是將黏土捏的細細碎碎的，地板及桌上常有細碎黏土要收拾，頗為麻煩！
Mix it up. Make clay or cookie dough, and divide it into several bowls. Add a few drops of different food coloring to each and knead it in. Then experiment with mixing the colors together. "What do you think will happen if we mix the yellow and the red?" Another fun idea: Put water in fancy clear bottles and have your child add food coloring. Put the bottles on the windowsill and let the sun shine through.
Sorting play. Most 3-year-olds start the year sorting according to their own whims rather than by color or size. But it's not too early to give him a shot at color coordination: Get some blocks in different colors and ask your child to sort them into piles by color. Or let him help you sort socks by color. It's fun to see the wheels turn in his mind as he solves the problem in his own way.
Make colors appear out of thin air. For a real crowd-pleaser, dangle a prism in the sunlight. (Many gift shops sell inexpensive hanging prisms.) The rainbows dancing on the walls will delight your child, and you can point out the colors that make up a rainbow.
Your life now
What to do with your budding artist's vast body of work? It's impossible (or at least impractical) to save everything. Pick your favorites and toss the rest when your child isn't looking. Do put up a few drawings on the refrigerator and leave them there for a while. Now that he's no longer living in the moment and can better remember what he's done in the past, your artist is able to feel pride and accomplishment in his work: "Hey, look what I can do!"
小馨最近的確會拿著紙筆畫畫，這些畫畫充其量只能說是一些線條，不過她還是很得意畫了「馬麻」或「把拔」，我們也很有禮貌誇讚她，讓她很高興呢！
