Please remind me -- what age do children learn to name colours?

[frogs]

Three children on, and I can't remember...

[janeybops]

Would like to say that although both of my lo are good talkers there motor skills aren't quite so good in case anyone thought I was getting boastful

[LIZS]

Anytime from 18 months , primary colours - 3/4 for others.

[hoxtonchick]

hooray for miniest-frogs . you do realise there's a fimbles link?!

[Seona1973]

according to the babycentre website, it is an advanced skill for a child to name one colour at the age of 29-30 months. DD has just turned 2 and knows several colours, but her speech has been really good and now she just wont shut up...lol

milestone chart 25-30 months

[Elibean]

18 months (when she really first started using words) DD started with yellow, silver, blue, and purple. Red is hard to say in French but it came next, then green and pink. Now 23 months and has brown, black, white. My brother (who has two incredibly early walkers/talkers) thinks thats average - our mothers help thinks its early: I think there are such huge ranges of 'normal' for just about everything that early/late is meaningless!

[frogs]

hc -- of course there's a fimbles link! She watches telly for her educational advancement, not because her evil mother wants to cook the supper in peace.

Am saving the Fimbles for her birthday, though! Many thanks.

[hoxtonchick]

i'm pleased baby pom is going to be much loved . and from humble beginnings in ethel austin....

[magnolia1]

Katie is 2.5 and knows the basic colours although sometimes she just says any colour to get me to stop asking

She definately loves pink though, how typical!!

[HappyMumof2]

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[jellyjelly]

ALMOST 2 and i was told that he was advanced with it.

[tortoiseshell]

They're all different - dd knew all the colours in the felt tip pen packet (including things like purple,pink,black,white, orange) by just under 2, ds was more like 2.5.

[clary]

ds2 (2.6) knows most colours tho notvery clear. Yellow was his first (!) at about 20 mo?
Recall HV telling me that ds1 whose speech was a concern was doing very well to name any at 2.6.
Also recall that for a long time he used to say dd's name for anything pink (so it would go, "green, blue, yellow, DD, purple, red") as it was the only time he had seen the colour I guess (tho she did wear other colours too...)
She was born when he was just 2 so I guess this would be an age 2.6 memory too.
Sounds as if yr dd is doing well frogs!