When should they know their colors?

momtoRaegan041008 · September 2010

What is the age for this milestone?

Ciconrad · September 2010

I read that most kids know the basic colors by 3. I think many know them before that but there is no concern if they don't. DS is 2 years 4 months and still only gets red and blue right 50% of the time. I say colors all day long but he's so absorbed in everyhting else, he doesn't care. Now he name 49 different types of vehicles and 15 Thomas trains but he can't tell me Percy is green. Drives me crazy....

momtoRaegan041008 · September 2010

Ciconrad:
I read that most kids know the basic colors by 3. I think many know them before that but there is no concern if they don't. DS is 2 years 4 months and still only gets red and blue right 50% of the time. I say colors all day long but he's so absorbed in everyhting else, he doesn't care. Now he name 49 different types of vehicles and 15 Thomas trains but he can't tell me Percy is green. Drives me crazy....

I thought it was around 3, but I couldn't remember. Thank you. Yeah, my daughter is not showing any interest. She knows names of colors, but she has only gotten a couple right. She wants everything to be blue!

KathrynMD · September 2010

My daughter is pretty good w/ pink and she can pick out blue or green sometimes - but otherwise. . .yeah, nowhere near. She does know what colors are though and so I figure that's pretty impressive.

Renee070806 · September 2010

at our 2yr check up nicholas was pointing out colors in our peds office and he said he was impressed..that he wouldnt expect that until 3.
he took a while with his big motor skills...but has known colors, shapes, letters, numbers since he was 2
i think its all in what they focus on

DoughGirl · September 2010

DS LOVES to color, so he was about 21 months when he could identify most colors.

My son is very similar to what Renee070806 described. DS has known the alphabet since 18 months and could count to 10 shortly thereafter. He was a very late crawler and a very late walker. I thought he was going to cruise forever!

regenab · September 2010

3. My girls had a language assessment at age 2 to qualify for services and part of the testing did ask them their colors, but she said they don't expect them to know that at 2. She said those questions were for 3 year olds but it is part of the testing so they ask them the colors.

LukeAndAmanda · September 2010

DD can rattle off her colors pretty quickly (red, blue, green, yellow, purple, white, brown, black) and her pedi said he didn't expect for her to know them until her 3 year appointment.

LaLaSweets · September 2010

Olivia was basically able to say all colors by 18 months. She can count to 12 and will say 17 and 19. She now knows about 5 shapes. I owe it to her great pre school which has things like color of the day , shape of the month etc and I would practice with her like at the supermarket even when driving

stromtobe · September 2010

My 25 month old knows what colors are, can sort out a pile of blocks into the piles of red, blue, green, and yellow but he says everything is Blue if I ask him what color things are.

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