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How to Teach a Toddler Colors with 20+ Fun Activities

February 20, 2019 by Sheryl Cooper

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Inside: It’s easy to teach a toddler colors while they explore! This collection includes over 20 easy and fun activities that invite young children to learn about colors in a hands-on way.

Around the age of two, toddlers begin to grasp the names of some colors and begin to excitedly point out which names they know.

A great way to encourage this color learning is to incorporate hands-on activities into your classroom and home.

Through fine motor, large motor, and sensory activities, your preschoolers will enjoy interacting with these color learning activities!

How to Teach Toddlers Colors with Fun Activities

 

How to Teach a Toddler Colors with 20+ Fun Activities

Sorting

Bear Sorting – Sort colorful bears into their matching dens made out of painted paper bowls.

Button Sorting Cups – Cut slits into the tops of colorful cups for toddlers to sort large buttons into the correct color. (About Family Crafts)

Sticker Sorting – For a fine motor activity, place colored paper on the walls and have toddlers peel and stick the same color stickers on the paper. (Busy Toddler)

Magnetic Color Sorting – Create magnets of colorful objects such as grapes, flowers, and trees and have toddlers organize them into the correct color. (The Activity Mom)

Stamp Sorting – Toddlers will sort the velcro stamps onto the envelope with the matching color. (Look! We’re Learning)

Sensory Bin

Color Cube Sorting – Sort cubes by color and put into matching bowls. Strengthens fine motor, too!

Rainbow Fish Water Bin – Catch fish with nets and learn their colors.

Gear Color Match – If you’ve got gear toys, add them to a sensory bin for some fun color recognition. (Moments Enriched)

Sensory Bin Color – To teach specific colors, create a sensory bin involving only objects in that color for toddlers to interact with. (Everyday Chaos and Calm)

Literacy

DIY Color Book – Gather paint swatches of different shades and bind them to create books of colors for preschoolers to flip through. (Craftulate)

Alphabet Color Sorting  – Grab those colorful letters and invite your toddler to sort them by color! (Busy Toddler)

Large Motor

Lego Hunt – Go on a hunt for Lego pieces and sort by color.

Color Hunt – Pick one color and hide objects of that color around the room for toddlers to go on a color hunt. (Busy Toddler)

Color Hop – For a large motor activity, draw large circles in various colors outside and have toddlers hop on the color that you say. (Learn Play Imagine)

Outdoor Scavenger Hunt – Go on a nature walk with color bags, finding one object that matches each color on the bag. (I Heart Crafty Things)

Science

Color Viewers – Use tinted sandwich bags or plastic to make ‘color viewers’, allowing toddlers to see everything around them in that color. (Preschool Toolkit)

Color Mixing Cubes – Freeze ice cubes with food coloring and have two colors melt together to see what color it turns into. (Gift of Curiosity)

Color Mixing Bottles – Create sensory bottles with two different colors for toddlers to shake them up and mix the colors together. (Preschool Inspirations)

Art

Yellow Sun Collage – Download the free printable sun and find small yellow pieces to glue on top.

Spin a Rainbow – Dust off that salad spinner and learn about color mixing.

Object Rainbow – For a group activity, preschoolers will glue colorful objects onto the matching color line on the rainbow. (Teach Pre K)

Outdoors

Leaf Hunt – Collect leaves on a walk and create a sorting chart to put them on. (Hands On As We Grow)

Fine Motor

Rainbow Suncatchers – Use the fingers to press colored tissue onto sticky paper.

Color Mixing Bags – Fill a bag with 2 colors of paint and press on top to make a 3rd color.

Pom Pom Sticks – For an easy color matching activity, draw colorful dots onto large popsicle sticks and have preschoolers sort matching pom poms onto them. (Natural Beach Living)

 

 

How to Teach Toddlers Colors with Fun Activities

 

More color activities:

Preschool Color Mixing Activity

Making Rainbow Crayons

Classroom Rainbow Theme

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About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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