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Teaching colors to kids

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Teaching colors to kids is best done through play and everyday life experiences. Many children easily learn their colors as parents and caregivers point out color attributes on the objects in children’s environment (e.g., “Throw me the green ball” or “Do you want the red shirt or the yellow shirt?”).

The more the parents and caregivers make color a salient attribute, and the more that children’s attention is drawn to focusing on colors, the easier is may be for them to learn their colors. Toward that end, I have done a number of activities with my kids that are appropriate for teaching kids their colors.

Many of these activities had multiple goals, such as matching colors while working on fine motor skills, or naming colors while putting them into rainbow order. All of these activities, however, involve colors. Parents and caregivers can call attention to the colors in order to facilitate children’s learning of colors.

Teaching colors to kids. I love all these fun and hands-on ideas for helping kids learn their colors. The no mess coloring mixing activity looks especially fun! || Gift of Curiosity

Below is a list of activities for teaching colors to kids that have been featured at Gift of Curiosity. Click an image to be taken directly to the post related to each activity.

 

Color Activities for kids

  • Teaching colors through play
  • Materials for teaching colors
  • Color matching around the house
  • Colors in the salt box
  • Ideas for teaching colors
  • Build a 3D rainbow
  • Stringing a rainbow necklace
  • Rainbow do-a-dot printable
  • Learning about colors
  • Easter egg memory game
  • Color the snowman buttons
  • Why learning color and shapes is important
 

Color Mixing Activities for Kids

  • Color mixing with ice cubes
  • Fun with color mixing
  • No mess color mixing fun
  • Color theory activity
  • Exploring colors with Mouse Paint
  • Color mixing rainbow challenge
  • Color mixing science
  • Make your own markers
 

Colors Printables

  • Color cards
  • Rainbow do-a-dot printable
  • Build a 3D rainbow
  • Color the snowman buttons
  • Spanish colors printable
  • Bead stringing control cards
  • Ice cream color grading
  • Easter egg color grading activity
 

For more colors activities, follow my Learning Colors board on Pinterest!

Follow Katie @ Gift of Curiosity’s board Learning Colors on Pinterest.

Comments

  1. Mythili says

    May 11, 2014 at 9:00 am

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  2. Jacqui says

    May 21, 2014 at 12:58 am

    what a wonderful gift for teachers and parents. just love this thank you so much

    Reply
  3. Autumn Shaffer says

    May 31, 2017 at 5:33 am

    I love all the activities you have posted! This site is so helpful for a classroom teacher.

    Reply

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