How Do You Make Montessori Color Tablets?
Montessori color tablets are used to familiarize primary-aged children with the names and shades of colors. They are part of many lessons that teach comparisons, visual skills and general artistic creativity and appreciation. You can purchase Montessori color tablets or color cards from many school supplies stores, or you can make your own with items that you likely have around your house. These steps will let you make a simple set of color tablets for use with a child as young as 2 years old who is learning colors. You can apply these directions to more complicated sets of tablets later if you wish to expand your child’s color-related home learning. Cut the posterboard into rectangles measuring 3 x 5 inches. You can measure one of these rectangles, then use it as a pattern for the rest of the cards. You will need to make six of them altogether and they need to be as consistent as possible. Cut out two matching squares of red, blue and yellow construction paper. These squares should me
