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Lego Colour Matching & Patterning

October 12, 2015 by Nadia van Zyl 1 Comment

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Use your Legos for more than just building! Use it for colour matching and patterning!

  
I added an ice cube tray to the Lego box and let my 2.5 year old copy the colour Legos. I placed a colour on the top row, and he had to match it and also say the colour. 

  colour matching  
This skill is called visual discrimination: where a child can identify a specific colour between other colours. A child need this skill for reading one day: identifying and differentiating between different letters. While working on this skill, we also rehearsed the colours he knows and learned new ones too!

An older child can use this method for colour patterning with the ice cube tray and Legos. 

  patterning  
Patterning is a skill that help children make sense of mathematical concepts as well as logical thinking: what comes next. Start with a simple 2 colour patterning, then 3 etc. You can add more ice cube trays too. 

If you want to, you could use one colour and let your child sort according to properties: long blocks, round blocks, arched blocks etc.

  sorting properties  
A fun learning activity that uses the material you already have in the house, that gives you fun AND frugal!

  matching and patterning  



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