Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
Some questions for those with LOs who are almost 2 (20 months+)...
Does your LO know their colors? If you ask them "What color is your shirt?" or "What color is the ball?", do they answer with the correct color?
Also, if you ask "Which block is blue?" or "Can you please give me the red block?" are they able to give you the correct color?
Should I be concerned if my LO is unable to do any of these things and always gives the color "yellow" as an answer?
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Re: Some questions for those with LOs who are almost 2 (20 months+)...
DD doesn't know her colors yet either. We are working on them though. We always used to get the answer yellow but recently she switched her answer to green.
DS does pretty good with his colors. He will tell me the color of his shirt, my shirt, his cup, his bowl...etc...even if I don't ask. That said...
1. They spend a lot of time on it at daycare.
2. He's not right 100% of the time (mixes up Blue & Purple, Red & Pink a lot)
3. A lot of times he knows it because it's the same object he's seen multiple times, so I think he memorizes that this is his red cup. When pointing to something new he's never seen before, his accuracy goes down a lot.
4. That's all happened in the last few weeks. Before that, everything was yellow!
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Ryan knows all of his colors, but verbally calls everything blue. Rarely he'll say purple or green.
But if you ask him to find the red, brown, orange, etc... block he finds the right one. He just likes to say blue!
He's just now getting the concept of counting. We always tell he him he only gets 1 vitamin so he holds up 1 finger. He loves them! Lately he holds up any where from 3 to 5 fingers, indicating he wants more! But he doesn't really get the numbers concept yet.
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Ok, I feel a little better, just from the first few responses. My daughter is pretty verbal and she can say all of the colors, but just doesn't seem interested in identifying the colors. She's totally content with her "yellow" answer, lol! I've been working with her for a little bit every evening (not really pushing her, just playing with her toys and asking lots of color questions) for a couple weeks now and she just doesn't seem to be understanding the color concept.
Answer me this:
Is it weird that since my daughter is advanced in her verbal skills, I worry that I might be overlooking other areas where she is behind? (does that make sense?)
My ds turned 20 months November 12th and he is the same although instead of yellow he says blue. I wouldn't worry at this age at all. Just keep telling lo the correct color and in time lo should get it.
if it's just me and her, she sometimes answers these type of questions correctly, sometimes not. if there are others around out of the norm (beside me and DH), she can answer these types of questions almost always correctly.
honestly, i wouldn't worry about it so much right now. they're still young and learning so much.
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My daughter is 21.5 months now, and really in the last week has seemed to start to actually GET colors. Previously, she'd mostly also answer yellow to anything, and point out yellow things, or purple things. I'd say she was wrong like 50% of the time. In the last week she is actually correct the majority of the time and has been able to identify maybe 8 or so colors pretty well.
She LOVES to color so she talks about colors quite a bit lately, I'm sure that helps.
I would not be concerned at all for quite some time if your kid isn't quite getting it. My neighbor has a 26 month old who is probably about the same as my kid but still isn't 100% getting it.
No, there is no need to be concerned.
My DS knew his colors right around when he turned 2 and I remember his speech therapist saying that was early to know that. My DD doesn't know any colors. I think she attempted to say purple yesterday while pointing my DS eating a grape ice pop, but it wasn't 100% intelligible.
She does know her colors but wasn't interested until about 21 months. Right around that time she started also counting and also picking out letters from the alphabet. "where is the letter O? What sound does O make"
I saw a huge leap between 21 months-24 months. We often play "I see a ____ color car" which helps her language and keeps her from waking up her brother if he is sleeping.
I wouldn't worry if your LO isn't there yet. Each child develops differently. My DD has NO interest in kicking a ball or climbing onto a tricycle.
DS is 23 months and is just now starting to get the hang of colors. Like, within the last week. Previously, *everything* was blue.
He still answers blue quite a bit, but if I ask him again, he often gets it right. He knows green, red, yellow, and purple. And blue, of course.
If I ask him to point to a specific color, sometimes he does, sometimes he doesn't. I'm not concerned. He'll get them eventually.