Does your 2.5-3. year old recognise colours?

[Evasmum12]

Hi, my dd is 3 in December, and I'm not convinced she knows any colours atall. Her vocabulary is very good and she knows most shapes, but if I ask her what colour something is she either says 'green' or 'colour' or says what the object is.

I've tried making a game of it, saying tell me the colours and you get a sticker, but mixed in with questions about shapes and animals so she dosent get funny about it iyswim. She can name all the shapes and animal but with colours she guesses or just says green then names colours till she gets the right one.

Should she know all the basic colours by now? Should she know 'red car' 'blue balloon' etc? She will describe things, but never by colour.

Advice please!

My dd is 3 at Xmas, she knows most of her basic colours but not purple or turquoise etc. We have been working on them along with shapes though. Just started potty training...gulp.

I taught one of mine colours by having 'colour days' ie once a week we would have a day focusing on one colour, ie for that day we would play with red lego blocks, wear red clothes, draw with red crayons, eat red food (where possible) and then the next week we would have a green day etc. for the rest of each week I would point out lots of things the colour of the week.

Colour matching is a good start. Put things of same colour together and name the colour.

I should add, that my boys were all close to three before they knew their colours. When DS2 started pre-school at three he knew purple orange and black but not red green or blue!

Ideally, she should be able to match colours, if not, speak to your specialist

The kids first proper word was "purple" - she has known colours for ever, it seems; she would point to the items of the colour you asked when she was pre-verbal. But then she's only just got the idea that you can climb on things in the park on your own - all kids are different.

I don't think it's at all unusual to be unsure on colours before the age of 5.

If she can tell that they are different colours and group things of the same colour together then not being able to name the colour in itself doesn't really matter.

My DD couldn't at that age but can now (3.5)

I was a bit worried though! One of those things that it seems like they should learn before they do. A anthropologist friend was telling me that learning colours is extremely complicated, which is why it's learnt later.

Dd was 2 in march and knows a lot of colours and can count well but doesn't know shapes. I guess they all know it eventually! She wasnt talking well till she turned 2 but was toilet trained by thwn. She's an awkward child!

ds with sen was very very good with colours (just over 2 ish) but as only just started asking for a drink at almost 4 i agree with the advice on colour matching and grouping colours together also , with ds with his duplo because they where all the same i would say green lego, blue lego, makes it abit easier if the objects are the same just different colours...

Hiya

Just worried that my 3 year old will always be a bit slower than the rest of the class as he is a summer baby. Just want to hear from anyone who has a child born at same time of year (July/August) and found that once they got older say to 7 or 8 that it all balanced out and they did fine at school.

My DS just turned 3 in August and he has started nursery. His speech is a lot clearer and his vocab and sentences have increased lots since he started at the start of September.

He never really attended nursery before now. Although I have read cases where kids have had exactly the same early schooling and show different strengths in different areas for example colour recognition and potty training.

DS in completely potty trained but only recognises blue and white and starting to recognise purple. He kind of can count to 11 but misses out 4 .
I am not too worried but just hope that he can complete his goals for this year before starting Reception next September 2014.

At the nursery (part of the school) they looked at all things blue and this week is will be red.

DD is 2 years 2 months and has known her colours since 20 months but it came VERY suddenly - for months everything was 'green', then all of a sudden she started to announce the colours of everything under the sun! She doesn't know things like turquoise, peach etc but she will say if something is 'light (colour)' or 'dark (colour)'. On the other hand, the only shape she knows is a circle. Every time I ask her to tell me the shape of something that isn't a circle, she gives the colour or names the object and looks at me like I'm daft. She is at full time nursery and her vocabulary is very good, I suspect nursery has helped with that as she is around people speaking all day long. I really wouldn't worry though, I know lots of other mothers from nursery with kids from 18m to 4.5 and the children are all wildly different speech- and language-wise, none known to be colourblind but many kids are older than mine and hardly know any colours but can identify heaps of shapes!

Tears rolling at the finding poo mission! Also loving green and not green.
DS is 26mo and knows black and pink (he has a big sis so lots of pink - not sure why black is important). DD had them all down by 2 except black and white, which she couldn't work out for ages.