The kid is interested in colours. He's asking, often, 'Colour it?', but so far he identifies everything as yellow. I wanted to find an easy game with him to play with colours and came up with these (click the thumbnails for full-size pdf to print out yourself).
I printed out two pages each of the colour blocks and of the wallpaper background, and stuck down (blocks backing onto wallpaper) to both sides of a piece of card. I used spray adhesive because it's easy for repositioning, but I imagine you could print out directly onto the card if you had the right printer/card combination.
I cut them out to end up with two sets of 8 cards. The first game we played was pretty successful - I scattered one set of cards face up on the table, and from the other set said 'I have red! Can you find red?' etc. Allowing for the usual two-year-old chaos, it went pretty well. After a few minutes playing that, he wanted to practice picking up all the cards and laying them out again saying 'yellow... yellow... yellow...' I guess we will be able to use the cards to play Pairs (Pelmanism) when he's a little older.
For a 5 minute project, I'm already pleased with how much play these have had.
(Many thanks to Spoongraphics for the free wallpaper pattern.)
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