Kids

The extent to which shapes and colors affect children

Hello to all dear visitors to my child’s world, let all parents know that the first thing a child learns at the beginning of his or her educational and formative life are shapes and colors. Geometric shapes help build memory and cognitive skills for children when they begin to associate the shapes of the surrounding world with them.

The importance of teaching children geometric shapes:

1. Simple geometric shapes: square, rectangle, triangle, and circle.

2. Through continuous repetition, he distinguishes between the shapes and names of geometric shapes..

3. Identify the number of geometric shapes he has learned.

4. Knows the number of sides of some geometric shapes.

5. Distinguish between geometric shapes in terms of shape and number of sides.

6. Develops the child’s high intelligence ability.

7. He develops the movement of his hands and fingertips when drawing shapes.

8. Cutting out geometric shapes forms shapes of inanimate animals or plants.

9. He is creative in choosing colors from geometric shapes when drawing.

10. Develop his focus on composing or coloring geometric shapes

Here are the ideas with simple and fun materials and new and simple activities.

When we give shapes to a child, we start with just one shape, for example a circle, and connect it to the surrounding world (cake - sun disk). We must not confuse him with shapes so as not to distract him and ensure his concentration, and so on. When we are sure that he has memorized it and after he has mastered the first shape, we take the next shape.

The effect of colors on the child’s psyche:

Many studies have proven that colors have a significant impact on the psyche, and that the preferred color is even related to the personality type.

It has been shown that it has an effect on adults and children alike, and perhaps its effect on children in education is clear. Colors also have a magical effect on the child’s psyche, and these colors can be used to calm the child, motivate him to study, stimulate his appetite for food, modify his behavior, raise him, or train him. On a specific matter or drawing his attention to a specific matter, and the benefits are long.

There were many classifications that explain the psychological dimension of some colors. There are those that divide colors in general into four main colors: (red, blue, green, and yellow).
The color blue represents reason, reason, intelligence, and wisdom.

The yellow color also expresses emotions, feelings, creativity, confidence, and self-esteem, while the red color expresses physical dimensions, strength, courage, and boldness, while the green color expresses the interaction and balance between all previous colors, comfort, and renewal.