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pitterpatter129

Do your Dec. babies know their colors? My kiddo can sort by color, like put all the red things together and all the blue together, etc., so I know he can see the colors.  For awhile I wondered if he were colorblind!  However, if I were to hold up a red and blue block and ask him to pick the red one, he has no clue.  He can't actually identify colors. (He doesn't have a huge vocabulary, so color words aren't on his radar at all when it comes to speaking.)  We've been working on it today.  Are colors a skill set for this age group even?  If your kid does know them, did you do anything fun to teach them that you would like to share?

(I wish the bump would let me make a clicky poll!! Argh.)

OhSewCrafty

Charlie has his colors down, but only if there isn't another characteristic to distract him. Like, if we hold up a yellow letter A, he'll tell us the letter, but not the color. Or if we showed him a yellow duck, he'd tell us it was a duck, but not that

Tb2331

M is really good with colors. We had a lot of books with colors and she picked them up from there. Elmo was a big help in the learning process.

kaceekc7

Paige knows her colors. She picks up crayons and tells us the color, identifies things by their color, ie, yellow bus. We just talked about them in regular conversation, like when I would tell her about the food she was eating, color was one of the things

Cheekers2010

I found this article extremely interesting.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=whyjohnnynamecolors

Apparently it's fairly common to think your toddler is colorblind and for them to have difficulty picking up colors.

OhSewCrafty

Cheekers2010:

I found this article extremely interesting. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=whyjohnnynamecol

jnicolen1

They pick up most and remember what is at the end if the sentence. I think That is also why it's best to tell your child what you want then to do instead of what you want them to stop doing.

One idea that we do in therapy for colors is to ha

lrn327

C definitely knows all of his colors  (DC has a color of the month so that helped a lot) but he doesn't sort like you mentioned, at all!

enjoylife

A knows his colors but doesn't sort by color. His favorite game? Red light green light a la backseat driver. Not the running game as I drive when we come up to lights he tells me if it is red or green then yells "stop" or "go". He gets very confused at ri

bosha711

Yes, he's known his colors since summer. What helped mostly was probably a book about colors that also has colored buttons to press & say the color. Other than that, just daily repetition using anything & everything around the house...this cup

Smores730

Mine says everything is either blue or red, all letters are either A or O, and all numbers are 1, 2 or 3. I'm so not in the least bit worried!

--halo--

Jack knows the names of a lot of colors, but struggles with the ones he doesn't see a lot.  Like pink. lol  He can sort colors really well, though.  He will also use them to describe things to me like, "Blue truck, mommy!"

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ChicagoBroad26

lrn327:

C definitely knows all of his colors  (DC has a color of the month so that helped a lot) but he doesn't sort like

stephy1221

A is really good with her colors now but I have to credit daycare, they have been doing an activity with a new color scheme each week. One week was yellow/orange, Green for St. Patricks etc.

She had an argument with my Mom yesterday about if her

mamaholmes2010

enjoylife:

A knows his colors but doesn't sort by color. His favorite game? Red light green light a la backseat driver. Not th

kj07

Nate's in a new daycare, right?  Check with them to see if they do a color of the week/month.  Then you guys can do some of the activities suggested here to reinforce that same color.

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Sonadora

Yep. She has had her colors down since right before her 2 year old appointment. I recall because our pedi asked her "What color is that chair?" and pointed to the little kid's blue chair, and then again with the yellow one. She seemed surprised that B

GrayGhost13

No, we go over them all the time, but DS doesn't seem to have any interest in identifying colors and he certainly can't say any of the color words.

I am always amazed at how advanced the kids on this board are. Definitely nothing like my experien

kat81again2

DS knows his colors and has for a while, but I think it's something they sort of focused on in school (basically we discovered one day he just knew them!) Also, he's been confusing red and yellow for the longest time. I know how colorblindness works an

pitterpatter129

kj07:

Nate's in a new daycare, right?  Check with them to see if they do a color of the week/month.  Then you guys c

pitterpatter129

GrayGhost13:

No, we go over them all the time, but DS doesn't seem to have any interest in identifying colors and he certainly

GrayGhost13

pitterpatter129:

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