Color Word Matching

Sawyer is becoming more and more interested in reading. He really wants to read and it is so cute to watch him try and sound out words. I made up a little activity to help him learn his color words. It was very simple.

I just cut out strips of colored paper and strips of white paper. On the white paper I wrote the color words in the corresponding color. I first had Sawyer match these to the color strips. He did this very easily.

Next I wrote the color words in gray and had him match them to the color words. He actually had to look at the letters in the words and figure out what color it was. He did really well with this too. After he masters this I will just put out the gray words and the color strips.

Lately if he can't do something perfectly he just quits, so I am trying not to push him. At the same time I want to encourage him and challenge him to try new things.