Early learning goal
Explore colour... in two and three dimensions (Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage, p120)
Give your creative activities a new look by planning for children to learn about colour in exciting ways. Since sighted children are exposed to a multi-coloured environment from birth, it is surprising how narrowly their focus may be channelled if they are offered only strong primary colours for creative activities. This may be due to the long-held assumption that young children need bright contrasting colours to see objects clearly and that their level of language prohibits them from learning vocabulary to describe subtler shades of colour.
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