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Conceptualization requires rich and intimate experience with a variety of objects through the various sense mobilizers. Since the basic ingredients of concept formation are sensory impressions, we should provide plenty of objects, materials and experiences involving different senses. No single experience is enough to build a reliable concept. A child must have repeated experiences with various materials.
Concept of experiences
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Color
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Children’s clothes, objects in class room pictures on the bulletin board, appropriate songs/rhymes
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Size
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Blocks, chairs, tables, glasses, object etc
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Shapes
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Objects in the class/play room
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Volume
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Hollow blocks, water play
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Texture
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Nylon, silk, wool, cotton, coir and velvet shells etc
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Consistency
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Clay, sand, finger paint, food items etc
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Smell
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Perfumes, phenyl, spices and flowers
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Taste
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Salt, sugar, lemon, items in lunch
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Quantity
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Clay balls, dough balls, food at lunch, dinner etc
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Solubility
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Water play-wood, sand, sugar, soap etc
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Time
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Time for various activities clock, wrist watch
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Number
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Counting blocks, beads and various objects, rhymes
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Spatial relationship
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Distances of familiar places, positions through songs, furniture in a room
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Sound
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Musical instruments, tins with different sounds etc
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Participants