How to Teach Kids Color & Shapes

Series Summary

Kindergarten is the first step in a child's journey of learning. Usually attended between the ages of 3-6 years old, it is where they learn to play, communicate and interact with others for the first time. It serves the purpose of training the child to be away from the parents as well as enforces ideas of friendship and camaraderie. It also allows the parents to return to their jobs during the day while their children are at school.

In these free video clips you will learn several useful tips and techniques on how to help your child with kindergarten math. This will include many addition and subtraction games, counting numbers, coins and dots as well as learning about shapes and colors which are an important part of the visual aspect of mathematics. Be there for your child and ready to help them when they feel they need it with these free videos.

Video Transcript

"The first thing that you want to teach when you begin with your child, assuming they know nothing about math up until this point and you can start this as early practically as they can talk or walk is to teach shape identification and color identification. Now start with very basic shapes, don't worry about prisms or parallelograms, or whatever. The ones that I think that are most important to start with are the square, the rectangle, the circle, the oval, the triangle and the diamond. You can set them up on one piece of paper like this, no big deal. Don't add any color to them yet because you want to isolate the difference between shape and color. And that's basically it. We're not learning how to read these of course, we're just learning how to say them. Look around your house and have your child show you different squares and rectangles and circles that they see using everyday items. There's our shapes. Here are our colors. The basic colors I like to start with. The 11 basic colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, brown, black, white, and grey. Those are the most basic colors that you find all throughout everyday life. Again, go through your house and have your child show you examples of these different colors. "