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Original poster

When are kids able to start naming COLOURS???

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drosophila · 10/04/2007 19:04

Just wondering.

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OrvilleRedenbacher · 11/04/2007 08:50

naming colorus i like a trick htough
once learned pretty pointless

unless you are a paint coloru mixer in ba dn q

FillyjonkIsMilitantAboutFruit · 11/04/2007 08:55

lol

still impressed though

dd is 21 months, i know she can do it bu i have naff all idea when she learnt

there is probably not much point trying to out-lax-parent me, i warn you.

PinkTulips · 11/04/2007 08:57

dd is 2 and has been doing it since she was about 20/222 months.... getting them right is another matter though!

IdrisTheDragon · 11/04/2007 08:57

I have no idea when DS did. He's 3.4 and has been for well over a year. So around 2 or so maybe?

Bucketsofdynomite · 11/04/2007 08:58

DH said yellow appropriately at 24m but that's about his only word (apart from "Ooooh noooo!")

AspartameGoddessOfCatAstrophe · 11/04/2007 09:24

DD could sort colours from about 15 months (she used to sort the pegs while I hung out the washing), but started to say the colours at about 22 months and had them down by about 2 years and a couple of months. She still confuses gold and silver, and is now interested in light green/ark greenetc (shes 2.10)

SANA · 11/04/2007 09:53

My DS 2.2 cant name colours, just not interested but he can do jigsaws with 24bits mostly on his own. They r all diff & it depends on what u teach them & what they want to do

fennel · 11/04/2007 09:59

dd3 is nearly 3 and it's only in the last couple of months that she's getting her colours right.

Tinker · 11/04/2007 10:02

Oh, I don't see it as sign of anything, just what she's learnt recently. She can "count" to about 15 as well but that's just a rhyme she's learnt.

Fimbo · 11/04/2007 10:03

By OrvilleRedenbacher on Wed 11-Apr-07 08:50:04
naming colorus i like a trick htough
once learned pretty pointless

unless you are a paint coloru mixer in ba dn q

Dear god, that made my spray all over the keyboard. Definately quote of the week methinks!

singersgirl · 11/04/2007 18:30

I only remember because of events coinciding with what they did - eg DS1 was sorting by colour on his first birthday, because he was given a stacking toy with different coloured rings on different posts and he put them all on correctly, and my SIL commented on it. I remember it was Easter when he started using colour names. He also showed us that Easter holiday that he was reading numbers (off houses, buses etc).

For DS2 I remember he started telling me the colours of the traffic lights when we were driving to hospital for him to be admitted with severe asthma. So I can date that.

There are lots of things I don't remember though - eg how long potty training took.

PeachyChocolateEClair · 11/04/2007 18:39

On DS3's abseline assessment at nrsery, namig colours is aprt of the thing for 205 years, the fact that he can't now (he's 4 in July) is one of the issues raised- mndyou he couldnt ask the way to the loo either, and does have SN

Pinkchampagne · 11/04/2007 18:43

Can't really remember when mine mastered their colours. I know that DS2 knew his colours when he had his two year check at 2.5.

nallydoolally · 11/04/2007 18:51

dd1 (now 5) was about 2 and a half, ds (now 3) was just under 2. some children i know at 3 can't name all of their colours, just maybe 3 or 4.
i think that some are more interested and pick things up more easily because of it. ds started telling me the colours of things when we were having bedtime stories. just pointing at books and saying things like "look mummy, a pink 3!" dd1 was more interested in drawing, painting, making up stories and pretending she was a fairy (still is)!

fennel · 11/04/2007 18:54

Just been testing dd3, 3 next week. She got pink right but green wrong. Can't really say it's because she's so advanced in any other area instead.

I guess we won't be gracing the G&T threads just yet

but she is utterly charming, surely that's more important than colours.

nallydoolally · 11/04/2007 19:40

absolutely fennel

MummyTL · 11/04/2007 23:17

My DS (not quite 3) told me recently that he was going to sit on "the blonde toilet".

Peridot30 · 11/04/2007 23:29

Ds picked up colours really easily early on but dd is now 3.6 and is still stuck at some colours. THink it just depends on your child. Each to their own.

ILoveDolly · 12/04/2007 14:10

dd (14months)has started saying 'ellow' and pointing at yellow things but has no interest in naming any other colours or even pointing to them so i think she just has learnt her favourite. like she ignores all animals apart from 'dogh'.

MellowMa · 12/04/2007 14:12

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dejags · 12/04/2007 14:15

DS's knew them all (except gold and silver) by 2.5ish.

maisiemog · 21/04/2007 11:04

I just wanted to add that I had one of those 'Your 29 month Old' emails from Babycentre and they reckoned that knowing one colour at 29 months is advanced.
I'm not sure how they test, 'pass me the red train' or something and see which train they get? [shrugs]
My DS is 29 months and now I can point at things and ask him the colour and he knows quite a few - haven't actually recorded how many, but I know other mums with children of around the same age whose toddlers can't tell you the colour of things reliably at this age, but can speak better than my DS.
He does seem quite interested in numbers, letters and colours, but isn't the most advanced of speakers.
Is this a 'brain side' thing, pattern recognition or sorting or something???

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