The Colors Around Us (Using Color Box Three)

Some of our most favorite materials are those in the Montessori world. I love how they provide beauty and quality to our educational journey.  As much as I appreciate the materials and their worth in their original intent I also like how they lean themselves to extensions that provide another realm of learning for the kids.
Color Boxes are just one of these materials that inspire extensions, specifically Color Box Three! I use this material set to encourage my girls to really see the world around them in COLOR!

Here are a few examples we have utilized this one material to further the knowledge and awareness of nature around them by providing time for observation, discriminating colors, language building and to simply orient the world of colors.

Can you match the colors of these objects of nature? 


Garden Fresh Tomatoes:

Butterflies:

Turtles:

Reptiles:

Frogs:

Seashells:

Flowers:

Fruit:

Birds:

Another way I really like to present these tiles is through our art invitations and work trays. Here are a few we have done that the girls have enjoyed.

Painting Ocean Zones:

Ordering and painting watermelon Colors:

Flags of Countries Around the World:

Painting the colors of a Thunderstorm: