Visual Sense: Color

Color Tablets
Materials First Color Box (or Primary Color Tablet Box): A box with a lid
containing 3 pairs of color tablets: red, blue, yellow.

Second Color Box: A box with a lid containing 11 pairs of tablets:

red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, black, white, gray, brown and
the 11th pair is either pink or maroon.

Third Color Box: A box with a lid, divided into 9 compartments

containing 7 color tablets each or 8 compartment with 8 color tablets
each. Each compartment contains a gradation of one color from dark
to light. The colors are red, blue, yellow, green, purple, gray, brown,
pink or maroon, and the 9th color is orange.

Purposes To give the keys to the world of color

To develop the chromatic sense

Age Color Boxes 1 and 2: 3 to 3.5

Color Box 3: 3.5 – 4.5

Presentation: 1. Invite child to work.

Color Box 1 2. Ask child to retrieve table mat for work while guide gets a chair for
themselves.
3. Walk back to color boxes with child – “These are the color boxes.”
4. Ask child to carry Box 1 to table mat (note: child should already
know how to carry a tray by time of this presentation.)
5. Flip open lid of box, remove color tablets, handling by their edges,
in matching pairs from box and scatter them around table mat.
6. Select one color tablet and set it down with intentionally away from
other tablets.
7. Let child know you are looking for that tablet’s match.
8. Once match is found, place next to initial tablet, reforming pair. Set
this pair to upper left corner.
9. Repeat steps 6-8 with remaining tablet pairs, being careful not to
interrupt child or stop them from taking over.
10. Invite child to keep using tablets if desired, fade and observe.
11. Otherwise, return tablets to box in pairs, and replace lid of box.
12. Return and assist by offering to carry box back to shelf or table mat
back to basket.
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Presentation: 1. Repeat steps 1-5 of Box 1 presentation. Box 2 holds more colors
Color Box 2 than Box 1, but tablets are still in colored pairs.
2. Carry box of color tablets to rug or table and place in upper right
corner of work area.
3. Remove tablets from box by their edges and scatter randomly
around work area.
4. Remove one tablet intentionally away from other tablets (top left
corner).
5. Indicate that you are actively searching for a matching tablet.
6. When one is found, place it next to the initial tablet, reforming pair.
7. Repeat steps 6-8 with remaining tablet pairs, creating a column
beneath initial matched pair. Once left side of work area is covered
in tablets, start a new column to right. Be careful not to interrupt
child or stop them from taking over.
8. Invite child to keep using tablets if desired, fade and observe.
9. Otherwise, return tablets to box in pairs, and replace lid of box.
10. Return and assist by offering to carry box back to shelf or table mat
back to basket.

Presentation: 1. Repeat steps 1-5 of Box 1 presentation, scattering even more tablets
Color Box 3 –these ones are not pairs, but instead 7 graded sets (each set forms a
7-color gradient) for each color of tablet.
2. Look for both the darkest and lightest hued tablets for a particular
color. Set both tablets in front of child and guide, (darkest on left)
indicating difference between them.
3. Indicate that you are searching for the next-darkest color tablet.
Once the desired tablet is found, place it to right of darkest tablet.
4. Continue locating next-darkest tablets and set, left to right, until all
seven are arranged.
5. Place completed gradient set in upper left corner of mat.
6. Repeat steps 2-5 for remaining color tablets, graduallt letting child
take over throughout lesson.
7. Invite child to keep using tablets if desired, fade and observe.
8. Otherwise, return tablets to box in gradient sets (by mixing them up
within the context of their own color), and replace lid of box.
9. Return and assist by offering to carry box back to shelf or table mat
back to basket.

Extension of 1. When child is successful with the initial lesson, invite them to
Color Box 3 choose two colors and mix together randomly on the rug. Sort first
by color, then grade one color at a time.
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2. When successful with first extension, invite the child to take three
gradations at a time and mix, sort and grade.
3. Finally, using two rugs, take out all nine gradations, mix them up,
sort them and grade them.

Control of Error Color Box 1 and 2: The last two tablets don’t match
Color Box 3: Visual Disharmony

Following 1. Color Box 3: Invite the child to take an object and put in the center
Exercises of the rug. Take all of the tablets out of Box 3, mix, sort, grade by
taking the darkest of each gradation in a circle around your object.
The child will then make nine rays out from the centers.

Language Color Box 1: No language, because it is given with Box 2

Color Box 2: Red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, black, white,
gray, brown, pink or maroon
Color Box 3: Light (color), Dark (color): Superlatives and
Comparatives

Sensorial Games Color Box 1 and 2: 1,2,3

Color Box 3: 1,2,3,4

Pedagogical  The three boxes of color tablets nicely illustrate the progression that
Notes leads to abstractions; Box 1 is used for awakening the sense, as it
contains the extremes of the set. Box 2 is pairing with more
variables and Box 3 is discrimination of difference with pairing.
 If the child cannot catch the notion of grading with all seven tablets
with Box 3, remove a few of the intermediate tablets.
 The work with the color tablets is best done in natural light.
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Color Tablets