My daughter has never had a popsicle, wait I lie, she’s had a milk popsicle I made for her. She really liked that. I should try to make some homemade health popsicles for her during the summer. So far she’s only been through one summer so this summer I’ll try to make some for her. My daughter is 16 months old and I’m trying my hardest to teach her Chinese. We are a family of 3 and my husband doesn’t speak Chinese. I’m a CBC and not fluent or literate in Chinese. My parents never sang Chinese nursery rhymes to me either, so I didn’t know any. So I’m basically learning along side my daughter. Hopefully she will pick up more Chinese and learn to speak and read a little at least. This is another color sorting activity. You know I’ve done so many color sorting activities and haven’t had any real indication that she’s picked up on the Chinese words for the colors yet. Perhaps she’s too young. I won’t get discouraged, and just keep going. Her Chinese vocabulary is growing and so is her daddy’s. I’m impressed at both of them. This color sorting activity involves popsicle sticks, perfect for those little hands to grab and stick them into pouches. My daughter is 16 months old so this is a toddler friendly activity.
Color Sorting with Popsicle Sticks
Chinese Vocab
- Orange (橙, chang)
- Yellow (黃, wong)
- Blue (藍, lam)
- Green (綠, lok)
- Purple (紫, zhe)
What you need:
This activity was inspired by Chalk Academy with her daughter making popsicles. She had little pouches from foam and painted popsicle sticks. Her daughter would sort them into the correct little pouch, even put hearts on it. There were different variations for a counting or color sorting activity. Since my daughter is so young and not quite as advanced as hers, I just created little pouches for my daughter to sort the sticks in. I cut shapes out of the foam and glued the sides together. Used a heavy weight to keep the sides down so the sides would glue together. I didn’t have paint (need to get some), so I glued foam
sheets to the popsicle sticks with the different colors. I made 4 different color pouches and used large and small popsicle sticks and attached different colors to them. I also wrote the chinese words for the colors on the popsicle sticks and the foam pouches with a black sharpie. Object of the game of course to put the right color popsicle stick into the corresponding colored pouch. Or if you are a toddler, to have fun.
Result
My daughter had fun trying to conquer the task. I would ask interact with her in Chinese and say things like “This is blue pouch, what color is this stick?” “Does this pouch look like the same color as this stick?” This stick goes inside this pouch”. “What else is blue here? What color is this pouch?” She had fun sticking the popsicle sticks in the pouch. At one point she was trying to stick the sticks in her mouth too. The game activity lasted for about 5-10 minutes. In the future when she gets a little older she’ll have more fun actually doing the craft work herself. She was correctly putting the sticks into the correct colored pouches some of the time. The results were not 100%. Will try again in the future and see how she progresses.
Mommy Dragon
