Colors and Pom Poms

Matching and Movement: Color Game

Age: 18 months-Kindergarten

Supplies: 
A bag of pom poms
Cardstock in coordinating colors

Benefits: 
Movement, learning colors, motor skills, language, matching, counting, sorting, shapes.

Activity: 
Cut out squares from cardstock (mine ended up being 8X8)

Spread the squares out on the floor.
Place the pom poms in a bucket or just in a pile on the floor.

First, I showed the little girl (18m) how to do it.

I picked up a pom pom.
I said the name of the color.
I placed the pom pom on the square.

She did it next. She liked the feel of the pom poms and she was very careful about how she placed them on the paper.

It doesn't hold her attention for a super long time, but she enjoys it. Sometimes she hands me the pom poms one at a time and I put them on the paper, but we still talk about the names of the colors.

Modifications:

• Differentiate the sizes of the pom pom, "That is a big blue pom pom, can you find a small blue pom pom?"
• Name the color they should pick up next: "Can you find a yellow pom pom? Place it on the yellow square."
• Instead of cutting out just squares- cut out different shapes too. "Can you put a blue pom pom on the blue circle?" 
• Place the papers far apart or in different places around the house where they aren't in direct sight. This would incorporate memory too. "Where is the blue square?"
• Assign numbers to the colors. "Can you put 3 blue pom poms on the blue square? Can you put 1 big yellow pom pom on the yellow square?" 
• Add styles of movement, "Can you hop this blue pom pom to the blue square?"