Flower Colors we can Find
by Eric Gonzalez-Payne

One card, one colour, one match. Do not use a set of six, which is a mistake we made and which produces a confused child.
The matching itself is standard toddler work. Doing it against living things that are not perfectly the colour on the card is what makes it interesting, because the child has to decide whether close enough counts. At two, they decide it does, loudly.
Red and yellow work best in tropical gardens. Blue is nearly impossible to find outside butterfly pea, which is worth planting for exactly this reason.
The page has the card colours, the plants that reliably provide each, and a note on the moment where the child brings you something wrong. Accept it. The willingness to try is what you are growing at this age, not the accuracy.
Eric Gonzalez-Payne
Founder and curriculum author
Ed.M. in Educational Leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Published by Empathy Global LLC
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