Here’s an easy way to teach your child to recognize different colors.

What You Need to Do Beforehand

Take a couple of dozen plain white sheets, and stack them up evenly one on top of another. Draw a simple tree shape with a thick trunk and a bushy top on the topmost sheet of paper. Use a sharp paper cutter to cut out the shape of the tree, so you have a couple of dozen cut out paper trees.

Take a single tree cutout. Pour different colors of paint - red, green yellow, and orange - in separate bowls. Cut up a piece of sponge into small 1/2 inch circles, and oval shapes. You can draw these shapes on the sponge, so you get the required shapes.

Tell your child to use a tweezer or clothespin to pick up a piece of sponge, dip in color and create apples on the tree, by dabbing in the appropriate bowl of color. Once she’s done with apples, give her another tree cutout and this time, tell her to add pineapples or oranges or melons to the tree. For each fruit, she’ll need to figure out which color is to be used, and dip the sponge in that color.

This will not only help her with color differentiation, but will also help her learn the names of fruits and vegetables. You don’t really have to supervise, and the only thing you need to help with is making stacks of paper tree cutouts. Easy!