I’ve been having fun creating color activities for my 18-month-old granddaughter because of her interest in matching colors.
I started with a simple activity of placing Zoey’s beloved yarn balls in matching DIY colored gift bags. (See “Montessori Monday – Montessori-Inspired Color Activities for Toddlers {Free Printables}”). She fell in love with the idea of matching colored yarn balls to the colored bags.
So I decided to prepare today’s Montessori-inspired color scavenger hunt using the Montessori Print Shop Toddler Color Books from the MPS Toddler Bundle.
Disclosure: I was given a copy of the toddler bundle. All opinions are honest and my own. This post also contains Amazon affiliate links (at no cost to you).
Montessori-Inspired Color Scavenger Hunt for Toddlers and Preschoolers
We had fun putting together this video with my daughter, Christina, and Zoey (Christina’s niece).
In the video, Christina followed Zoey’s lead in staying with the wooden ball matching. Usually, the activity would consist of finding a variety of objects in the colors chosen for the activity. I was happy that Christina followed Zoey’s lead because of the importance of repetition and concentration in Montessori education.
Montessori-Inspired Color Scavenger Hunt for Toddlers and Preschoolers
At Zoey’s age, learning the names of colors isn’t important. Zoey is very interested in colors, though, and I put interest above age in priority.
(Note: I typically organize the materials on a tray from left to right as an indirect preparation for reading and writing. In this case, we changed the order of the presentation during videotaping. The tray was already videotaped, so it ended up being in right-left order. If you present this activity as it is in the video, I recommend placing the basket of books to the left of the craft foam sheets.)
Related YouTube Video:
Related post: Matching Colored Bags and Yarn Balls for Toddlers
Resources
- Montessori Print Shop Toddler Color Books
- Montessori Print Shop Toddler Bundle
- Multicraft Imports 5-Piece Paintable Wooden Trays with Handles
- Montessori Services Rug
- Craft Foam Sheets
- Binder Rings (one way to attach book pages)
- Photo Cubes (Photo Stacking Blocks … not essential for the activity but useful for a variety of activities and a variety of ages. For this activity, I printed out the color book pages at 76% so they’d fit in the photo cubes.)
- Melissa and Doug Deluxe Pound and Roll Tower (Not essential for the activity. This is a toy we have that Zoey loves.)
- Scotch Laminator
- Laminating Pouches
- DIY Montessori Color Tablets (blog post with DIY color tablet tutorials and presentation ideas for color tablets. These activities are wonderful for reinforcing color matching and using traditional Montessori lessons to introduce color names.)
Does your child have a favorite color-matching activity?
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