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Show Flowers Help Children Understand Colors Blooming flowers and greenery are perfect to help a child develop an understanding understand-ing of color. By simply referring refer-ring to the green blades of grass, or the orchid-colored flower, you are promoting color col-or consciousness and color discrimination in your child. TREES are interesting in themselves and inspire the imagination. im-agination. Tell your small child to imagine the lanky boughs as a tall boy walking in the breeze. A child has a direct, intimate, inti-mate, personal relationship with nature. He will love the objects of nature, such as a grasshopper, an earthworm, a butterfly, oradandelion. much more than the most expensive toy you can give him. A CHILD is enriched merely by looking out the window. The commonest thing intrigues intri-gues a questioning child: a fly buzzing against a window pane or particles of dust floating in the fringe of the sunlight. "I See" is a game that stimulates stimu-lates sight perception. "I see something purple," for example, exam-ple, and watch his little eyes dance from object to object until un-til he discovers the purple violet plant on your window sill, gaining your approval as his only reward. |