Does your toddler know their colors?

Mrsdj06

I noticed a couple of the kids in DD's class know their colors.  Anytime I ask DD what a color is she responds "color".  LOL 

If they know them how did you teach them?  I want to start working with her on her colors.  She already knows most of her shapes so I'm figuring colors are next. 

bridesrighthand

Kellen knows most of them.  He still gets a tad confused with green & blue, but I think that's normal.  We taught him by saying the color of EVERYTHING.  We'd point to trucks on the road, "that's a yellow truck", or a cup..."your cup is red".  It took a bit to get t hem down, but it evetually stuck.

Emmasmom30

She knows all the names and she sometimes gets them right but not always.

abpdjs

yep, he knows his colors.

JulieandBen

Jack knew his colors shortly after he was two. He didn't talk a lot before he turned two.

mrshutch

DD learned her colors mostly in school and I reinforced what she was learning. I feel like she really started naming things by color, i.e. "blue car" at about 26 months. Until then, she tended to get a little confused about which color was which.

TheMalleys

She knows red and blue, that is it. Generally when you ask her what color, everything is "blue".

gisellems

the only one he says is "blue" and sometimes "green"but he doesnt know more than that..  we are still working on it!

momofolivia

I am focusing on her colors right now.  Mostly everything is blue, but she will throw in a yellow or purple or black sometimes.

Just like evrything, we just repeat, repeat, repeat!  I ask her what color things are all the time.

punkfiction

yeah. her faves are blue, purple, and pink lol everything is one of those first and then she laughs and says the right color.

shawns_bride

she's getting better with them, just in the last few weeks.

tunanuna

Yes, he knows all of them and has for awhile now.  We taught him by every time he picked something up or we talked about something we always him the color.

triplea1819

DS does not talk, so he does not say his colors.

 

 but if you say pick up the blue block, he gets it right about 80-90% of the time. 

we also do that with treats for potty training.  M&Ms.  We say, you can have the red M&M.  and work on colors that way as well.  again, he gets it most of the time, but not all yet. 

MrsAmers

We started just before her second birthday.  At her 2 year check-up she was only right about 50% of the time.  Now, at 2 1/2, she knows her colors.

We talk about colors when we read books, when we go to the zoo, when we use crayons, etc.  We just say what colors things are and ask her what colors things are.

Read2Me

Eva knows her colors. ?We never taught them to her in a structured way but she picked it up from books we read and through conversations we've had about her toys and things around her.

jnksmom

Yes DS  knows his colors. He gets black and brown confused sometimes but he knows the basic colors and purple and pink and white. He has known the basic colors for few months. We just called objects by their color all the time and still do...the blue block or you are wearing a red shirt, etc.

marriedchick06

If every color is "blue" then dd does! lol. We have tried and tried and every time I ask what color is somehing, she replies with blue". :::Sigh::: I am still holding out that she will end up with her daddy's brains and not mine!

SymphonyGirl

Yes, DS does.  We talk about the colors of things we see and we have books with color names and things like that. 

So Long Astoria

Yes, she does.

annak23

Most days yes, but some days no. I think she tries to see if I will correct her or not.

MamaNikki

Most of them.  He gets black and white mixed up sometimes, and will forget pink occasionally.

He loves to color, so using those we talked about different colors.  Especially his bath markers/crayons.  As we handed them to him in the tub, we'd say what color it was.  Then we would just ask him what colors they were as we played with them.  Same method with other toys.  Asking him (or telling him) what colors things were that we played with or read.

JARbaby

Yes but I have been identifying colors, shapes, numbers and letters from the time she could sit up, everywhere we go.

When you are out talk about everything you see!

MrsBNDO

Yes.