2.10yo doesn't know any colours despite my best efforts. Will she just pick them up eventually?

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She can count to 10 and knows her alphabet. I would her speech is good for her age. She seem to pick everything else up quite quickly.

But she cannot seem to remember any colours. She knows the names of the colours but doesn't match them to the actual colours if that makes sense.

For a long time now I have been using any chance to add colours to the conversation (that's a red car, do you want to wear a pink Tshirt today? etc) and playing games with her that are meant to help her learn her colours.

But all to no avail ...

Is this normal? Will she just pick it up or should I be worried?

She's very little and there are much more important things for her to learn just now like how to enjoy exploring, increasing her vocabulary and how to express her needs and feelings.

Knowing her colours is right at the bottom of the heap.

If she still doesn't know them when she starts school you could ask for her colour vision to be checked. This will make her life easier if she is colour blind because they will understand the reason why she put her coat on the wrong hook or picked the wrong colour apron, etc and not tell her off.

In the meantime teach her about the things which interest her by playing and talking with her. Let her take the lead and show you what she is ready to learn because that's the very best way to support her right now

My mum, who is a speech therapist and also very wise with all things children, says she is baffled by the modern insistence that toys and books etc for very young children emphasise colours. She reckons colours are one of the very last 'basic' things that kids learn. So trying to get a young toddler to know colours before they know, for example, yoghurt or cat or fire engine is (to use the proverbial) pissing against the wind.

FWIW my DD is very bright I know all mums say that but she actually is a bit of a genius and she is only just getting her colours right now on the eve of her 3rd birthday.

ds used to associate his colours to things ie ben ten green, but i wouldnt worry at her age.

I mean this very kindly but for gods sake chill out. Your child is a toddler. Barely more than a baby.

No real advice here, but DD2 'got' colours when they started learning the sign language for them at nursery. Around 2,5 I think. She has no speach or hearing difficulties, it is just an extra thing they do with the whole group. Prior to that she could say the words, but never match them correctly. But this suddenly helped.

I'm at exactly the same stage, 2.6 dd counts, knows a fair amount of the letters but we have a day where everything is green, the next its all red etc. currently visiting mum who ran pre schools for decades and she told me to chill, as long as they are answering a colour they know the concept and the rest will come.

Wouldn't worry about it. As a girl is unlikely to be colour blind and nothing you can do about it except steer her away from being an electrician/ pilot etc. You could play a game where there are identical objects bar colour and then ask for the red one etc but she will probably just come out with it one day. Ds always misses out 15 when he counts, dd1 missed 16- she includes it now.

Thanks. I guess I was just noticing the difference as dd1 knew her colours before she started nursery so I thought that was the norm.

I will chill and just wait for it to click.

Thanks

Dd1 knew her alphabet, upper and lower case before she was 2yo, and was reading and writing quite fluently before she was 3yo. She learnt her colours when she was about 3.6yo. She didn't even seem to have a clue for matching colours.
But when she learnt them she learnt all-like beige and turquoise etc. in about 2 weeks.

Dd2 learnt her colours earlier, but first we had simple colours and she was only learning more complicated than the basics at a similar age.

I think letters (and numbers) are what interested dd1. She didn't see the interest in colours in the way that letters did interest her.