Introducing colours to your Munchkin.
When children are born, they do not see in colour, which is why it is recommended to show them images in black and white. Slowly they develop their senses and start seeing in colour. They observe it around them in various forms, but, we should try and give them the opportunity to look at each colour (primary, secondary and tertiary) individually.
The colour sensory bottles are a great way for your Munchkin to explore colours. It is also extremely easy to make at home. All you need it some small bottles, water and food colouring. It is recommended to use bottles of the same kind so the only difference seen is in the colour.
Take off the labels from the bottles and wash them well. Fill it with water and add food colouring to it – red in one bottle, blue in another and so on. I chose to do only five colours (as seen in the image) – red, blue, yellow, green and orange.
Make sure you close the lids tight so that they do not open (you can even glue it if you want). Put the bottles in a basket and give them to your Munchkin to explore and play with.
Avoid teaching the names of the colours at this point. All we want for now is that they take in the colour. When playing with them you can always casually mention, “Pass me the red colour bottle” or “Take the green colour bottle” but avoid statements like “This is yellow colour”.
You can read about my munchkin using it here.
Age: You can give this around 6-7 months or when your baby is able to sit. Basically they need to be able to hold the bottle in their hands and pick up and put down whichever ones they want.
Purpose: This helps in developing their hand muscles, hand-eye coordination, sensory development (visual) for colour.
Hope you are able to use this DIY for your Munchkin – mine definitely loved it and still plays with it at 15 months.