Kindergarten Color Word Activity
Hands-on color word activity to reinforce color words to kindergarteners.
Materials
- White Paper Roll
- Markers
- Race Cars
Instructions
- Tape down the white paper to the table.
- Draw a long squiggle line on the paper.
- Add rectangles with color words written in black. Variation for younger children, write the color words in the color for a sorting activity.
- Place a race car for each letter to the left of the paper.
- Invite your child to move the cars into the matching color word parking spot.
Notes
Keep in mind:
When children memorize words, they memorize the shape. Memorizing the shape of a word does not help children when they come across a word they have never seen before. If they are taught to memorize words, they have no idea what to do as they come across the new text.
We must teach children how to decode words; phonemic awareness is one part of this puzzle. As your child finds the matching color word, look at the beginning, middle, and ending sounds.
