{"id":3999,"date":"2019-05-28T10:49:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T18:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/babysparks.com\/?p=3999"},"modified":"2022-12-08T10:16:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T18:16:06","slug":"why-learning-shapes-colors-is-so-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/babysparks.com\/2019\/05\/28\/why-learning-shapes-colors-is-so-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Learning Shapes &#038; Colors is So Important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4134 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/babysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20214a-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Why Learning Shapes &amp; Colors is So Important\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/babysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20214a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/babysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20214a-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/babysparks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20214a.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It\u2019s a thrill to witness your little one point to a firetruck and say <em>wed! <\/em>(aka red), or hold a puzzle piece and try to articulate the word \u201ctriangle.\u201d But learning colors and shapes isn\u2019t just exciting (and adorable); it\u2019s a foundation for several important things to come.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b><i>Highlights:\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learning colors and shapes helps your little one:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Understand math and geometric concepts like shape, size, space, and position.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn to sort and categorize, which are essential for problem-solving.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn letters and numbers, because those are made of shapes!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use descriptive vocabulary (I see a yellow flower).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use visual discrimination to associate shapes and colors with familiar objects.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>How Learning Colors and Shapes Lays the Groundwork for Other Skills<\/h2>\n<p>Learning colors and shapes helps your little one:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Understand math. <\/strong>When your little one plays with nesting objects, builds with blocks and works on <a href=\"https:\/\/babysparks.com\/2019\/05\/03\/how-puzzles-benefit-child-development\/\">puzzles<\/a>, she\u2019s doing her first geometry lessons. These and other shape activities teach her about geometric concepts including shape, size, space and position. This learning prepares your little one for school, where she\u2019ll be working on increasingly sophisticated geometrical tasks. In the United States, national education standards for kindergarten include geometry skills such as identifying, describing, analyzing, comparing, creating and composing shapes.<\/p>\n<p>Shape learning also lends itself to early counting as little ones discover that triangles have three sides, squares have four, and so on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sort and categorize. <\/strong>Learning shapes and colors teaches children to think about attributes of objects and make observations about similarities and differences. This is a form of early math, and also helps to develop the logical thinking they\u2019ll need for <a href=\"https:\/\/babysparks.com\/2018\/02\/23\/the-evolution-of-problem-solving\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">problem solving<\/a>, science class and even (eventually) sorting laundry or putting groceries away in the kitchen!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn letters and numbers. <\/strong>What do you see when you look at the letters A, O or W? Or the numbers 0, 3 or 7? That\u2019s right, shapes. When your little one learns about circles, triangles and squares, it sets her up for recognizing letters and numbers in the (not so distant) future. And when she learns to draw shapes, it prepares her for writing them. What\u2019s more, shape games involving patterns help develop pre-reading skills.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Use descriptive vocabulary. <\/strong>Shapes and colors quickly become mainstays in your child\u2019s language toolbox, allowing her to <a href=\"https:\/\/babysparks.com\/2017\/09\/18\/supporting-expressive-language-skills-during-baby-toddler-hood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">express<\/a> what she sees (I see a yellow flower), what she wants (I want the square cookie), and ideas she has (I can put the triangle block on top of the square block). <a href=\"https:\/\/babysparks.com\/2017\/09\/18\/supporting-receptive-language-skills-during-baby-toddler-hood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Receptive language<\/a> skills, like <a href=\"https:\/\/babysparks.com\/2019\/02\/15\/the-evolution-of-following-directions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">following directions<\/a>, also often rely on this vocabulary (please pass me the green crayon).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Use visual discrimination. <\/strong>The world is made up of shapes and colors. Once your child starts associating them with familiar objects, it helps her efficiently scan her environment by filtering out unnecessary information. If she\u2019s looking for a banana in a basket of toy fruits, for example, she can find it quickly by ignoring everything that isn\u2019t yellow.<\/p>\n<p>Now that you\u2019re up to speed on the many merits of this classic learning, you may have a newfound appreciation for the shape sorter, or re-reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Brown-Bear-What-You-See\/dp\/0805047905\">Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?<\/a> for the fourth time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a thrill to witness your little one point to a firetruck and say wed! 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