Sit down with your child at the kitchen table or at a similar work surface. Place a large sheet of thick paper or poster board in front of your child. Explain that you're going to be making a project that will work with shapes and colors. Talk about the colors and shapes around you. Use a black marker to draw the following shapes: circle, square, triangle, rectangle, diamond, star and oval.
Point to one of the shapes you drew. Ask your child if she knows what the shape is called, helping her by saying the shape's name if need be. Use the marker to write the name underneath the shape. Repeat this activity for each shape on the poster board.
Get out the crayons or markers, and help your child choose the following colors: blue, yellow, green, purple, orange, red and brown, leaving out black and white. Do this to cover seven colors, using the black marker as black and the white paper as white. Let your child use the crayons or markers to color in all of the shapes on the paper, using a different color for each shape.
Use the black marker to write the name of the color above each shape.
Turn the finished poster board over so it is facedown. Press a 1-inch long piece of double-sided sticky tape on each corner of the paper. Hang the shapes-and-colors project where your child will see it often so she will benefit from it. Use the project as an aid in teaching your child shapes and colors, along with introducing the skill of identifying shape and color words. Ask your child to find shapes or which shape is which color.