6 ways to learn with toy cars

Most of the children adore playing with toy cars. Just push them around the room will become dead boring very soon. So why not play and learn something new? In this post, I'm sharing our favourite activities with little toy cars such as hot wheels, matchbox, and majorette.

1. Learn letters.

 We started learning ABC with the letters of Tony's name. I put the pieces of sticky paper on the cars and the parking spaces. The task is to park the cars in the spaces with corresponding letters. 

2. Learn colours.

For smaller cars, I cut and pasted squares of different colours and for bigger vehicles, I used coloured cardboard sheets. For kids under 2, it's better to start with 4 basic colours: red, yellow, green and blue.

3. Learn sizes: big-medium-small

Prepare vehicles of different sizes. For younger children big and small will be enough. Then sort cars by colours. Sorting helps to develop logical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Another way to compare and contrast means of transport is to range from big to small.

4. Learn shapes.

  Offer your child to make different shapes using cars.: a triangle, a circle, a square, a rectangle and a diamond.

5. Develop abstract thinking.

 Choose 7-10 images of vehicles and 7-10 toy cars corresponding to the pictures. A child should match objects to pictures. This task helps to improve vocabulary. If this task is challenging, help with guiding questions: (pointing to the picture) Is a bus or a trolley bus? Does it have horns?

6. Improve memory.

Put 3-5 cars before your child and let him look at them for 10-15 seconds. Then he closes his eyes and you hide one of the vehicles in your hand. Ask: What is missing? If you need to give a hint, just uncover a part of the car and encourage your child to guess.

When the context is engaging for kids, they are motivated and learn much better. I hope your car lovers will enjoy these activities!