Why Shapes & Colors

The power of Shapes & Colors is undisputed. These very noticeable and recognizable characteristics encourage children from a young age to define and organize the diverse world around them.

• Of all the forms of non-verbal communication, Color is the most instantaneous method of conveying messages and meanings.
• Color is the most powerful stimulus for the brain. It opens up areas of the brain and allows greater and easier learning and remembering.
• Shapes & Colors can connect and create in a way that allow a subject or movement to become so much easier and allow learning to be faster and memory to go deeper.
• Color stimulates and works synergistically with all of our senses.
• Color helps concepts become more logical.
• Shapes & Colors foster creativity.
• Since the beginning of time, Colors have been symbols of abstract ideas.
• Infants learn to communicate through Colors before their language skills are developed.
• Color, more than any other thing, draws on both symbolic and cognitive powers to affect learning.
• The brain recognizes Shapes & Colors more easily and it provides visual clues in addition to verbal instructions.
• The brain remembers Colors first, and then the Colors activate the memory!
• Shapes & Colors have a big impact on our decision making process.
• Shapes & Colors are two very noticeable attributes of the world around us.
• Shapes & Colors are ways children observe and categorize what they see. These very recognizable characteristics encourage children to define and organize the diverse world around them.
• Understanding Shapes & Colors is a tool for learning many skills in all curriculum areas, from math and science to language and reading.
• Color is one of the first ways kids make distinctions among things they see; Color words are some of the first words they use to describe these things.
• We all use Shapes as a way of identifying and organizing visual information. Very early, children begin to make a connection between familiar objects and their Shapes.
• When children explore different Shapes, they are using one of the most basic educational processes: the observation of same and different.
• Shapes are also symbols. Not surprisingly, the early recognition of Shapes relate to children’s ability to read symbols, otherwise known as letters and numbers.
• The power of Shapes & Colors is undisputed.