les couleurs

You can use mega block type toys to introduce colours in French.

les couleurs:

bleu      rouge      vert         jaune         orange      violet       rose       marron        noir             blanc     

A brick in French is une brique (pronounced ‘breek’) and you can build towers using just the red bricks (les briques rouges) or the yellow bricks (les briques jaunes) etc. 

You can play with one brick of each colour and  build a tower in a particular order: bleu, rouge, vert, jaune, orange, etc. 

You can hide the bricks and then find them où est la brique rouge? (where is the red brick?).

 You can ask c’est de quelle couleur? (What colour is it?)  - C’est jaune (it’s yellow)

5 minutes of this within your normal building play and your little one will be soaking up the French vocabulary like a little sponge.  Even if they don’t yet speak English, you are helping to make your child more receptive to language learning by introducing different language sounds.  

All this from a simple toy that I bet you play with every day - and imagine how great you will feel when one day they start repeating the French back to you – Go on, give it a try, you’ll be amazed how quickly that happens!!