Friday, July 20, 2012

{printable} colour cards




Currently, Chloe absolutely loves colours and is always asking me what colour things are. 
So a little while ago, I decided to make these colour cards for her.



I made it super easy for myself - and just made them into 6x4 photo sized jpg's that I could print at Big W. Yep - no cutting them out :o}


I did however round the corners. Why not. Since I am so behind in project life currently - I was itching to round the corners on something ... 

I then laminated all the cards using some 6x4 laminating pouches I bought from Kmart. I love them! Again, no cutting!
I also hole punched them at the top and added two metal rings to make the cards into a little flip book.

We sit on the couch and go through her little colour flip book together - she loves it!

 And because we punched them and put them on those metal rings, we can take which ever colour cards we want out to use for other things, like this colour sorting activity. This has been a favourite activity around here for a few weeks now. 

 Easy, educational, fun and very useful! 

 You can download the zip file with all the jpgs here - just bring them to your photo printing place and print them as 6x4's :o}

For those that would prefer to print at home using A4 paper - I have included a zip file with pdf's of the colour cards as well - they will be smaller than a 6x4 photo though, but would work just as well :o} You can download those here.

They are zip files - hopefully they work. Please let me know if there are any problemos!

I would love to see any other uses you have for these cards if you make them for your kiddos! :o}


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19 comments:

  1. Great idea Bianca! Can I ask a silly question? You say you bought the laminating pouches from Kmart but I assume they still have to be used in a laminating machine? A laminator would be so useful with kids I really should invest in one!

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    1. Hi Kerri! Yes sorry, you still pop them through the laminating machine :) I absolutely would not be without mine now - $40 from Kmart about 5 years ago and still going strong :) xx

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  2. Gorgeous Bianca, thank you!! I didn't have any trouble with the jpeg files either. Will share on my page xo

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    1. Thank you so much Kristen! And thank you so much for popping by :) I am off to explore your blog x

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  3. Love these Bianca - totally going to do these for my bubs!!! b Thanks for sharing :)

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  4. These are great Bianca and very clever making them 6x4 (I must look into how to do that for things I make to make printing easier. My little girl has been talking about how various items 'match' lately too in terms of colour so these will be perfect. Have you seen the Montessori colour strip peg matching activity? I'm about to make one for my daughter using paint sample cards and wooden pegs and I bet your little girl would love it too...

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    1. Yes Amanda I have seen those! They would be a lot of fun, thank you for reminding me about them x

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  5. The cards are a great idea. My kids would love the colour sorting game. Where did you find the little coloured toys?

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    1. hi there! they are maths counters - I bought them in a tub of 100 - you can usually find them online or at education supply stores but I bought ours from Amazon

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  6. Great idea and pretty too - perfect! Thank you for sharing. x

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  7. silly question: do i just have to save the file on a flash drive, take to big w and then plug it in to the photo machine? Is that what you mean by them being that size?

    Thanks for the link - they look great.

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    1. Yep Peta - if you want to print them at big w you just save the jpg files to a flash drive and bring that in to print at the photo machines. Otherwise you can download the A4 size version to print with your printer at home :)

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    2. I printed at big w, laminated them and my son loves them! Thank you. The latest colour sorting activity involves his matchbox cars ....


      thanks so much.

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  8. Hi Bianca, love this!!....could you tell me where you got ur kiddies table and chairs from....have been looking for a nice set...thnx

    Mel

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  9. wow!! Great idea! Thank you so much for sharing! I can't wait to print out and play with my 2 yo.

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  10. I love your site!! I would love to download this for my first graders for a center. Maybe they can learn to spell the colors:)

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  11. Thanks, love it..! Great idea to teach the colors in preschool. =)

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  12. Hi, I love this idea. Will print them off for my almost 2 year old son. New to your blog and I love it. Bec

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  13. Great idea. I'm new to your blog and enjoying going through all your past entries. Bec

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