Colours?

[Liz79]

dh and I were just wondering about what age do children start to recognise and understand simple colours, eg red, blue, green, yellow. We were playing with mega blocks and at first dd who is 2.3 seemt to be passing us the correct bricks when we asked but then it went to pot and we thought it was maybe just coincidence. What age is it reasonable to expect them to know basic colours?

Don't know what's normal, but DD (21 months) knows that red, blue, green etc are colours and if you say "what colour is that car / flower / dress" etc she will respond with a colour, just not always the right one! Think she might know red, but she probably only gets colours right about 30% of the time, so it's probably coincidence at the mo!

Ds (2y5m) knows pretty much all his colours correctly but this has happened since attending nursery...

My ds who is 2.3 responds "blue" to pretty much most colour questions. I've only really focused on talking about colours in the last month or so. However, if pressed can answer correctly some of the time.

DD1 has just turned 2, has known her colours well for maybe 6 months.

From what you describe it sounds like he does know his colours but after a while he got mixed up.

As I say, DD is very comfortable with colours e.g. will announce "that's a purple circle" (or whatever) but sometimes if she gets mixed up she will start saying things are the wrong colours and get all confused and I have to step in and help her by telling her one colour. Once she is certain of one all the others seem to come back to her, iykwim?

I know that makes it sound like I'm mental and spend my whole time asking her about colours, but really I don't. She just likes groups of things e.g. colours, shapes, numbers and likes to know what all the things in a group of things are. She is also a total chatterbox.

ds knew his colours early on but also knew whe he was fed up of things like the colour game. when he had had enough he just stopped doing as asked. give space it will happen and if it is right next time you try then they are probably learnt and it is cba rather then dont know. kids are tricky like this. take them to see the hv for a check up and they'll do everything you say they can and nothing you say they can. they just know

DD is 24 months.

She can get orange (she loves oranges) and can get yellow (we have a yellow car and she likes bananas).

But she often says 'pink' when asked what colour something is.

my ds 23 months has known his colours for a while ,playing with playdough really helped him get to know them

Ha ha! My DD, just 2, is hilarious, everything is yellow at the moment. However, she has been able to recognise circle, oval, square, rectangle, star, moon, diamond and triangle since being 18 months; maybe she is going to be a colour-blind mathematician when shes older!

lovecheese- My DD is the same.
She is 20mths and can count and recognise numbers up to 10, knows her shapes, including hexagon. But colours shes finding harder to get.
Sometimes she gets them right but not sure if its coincendence of not. Most things are either Red or Pink!

DS knows colours (loves colours!), a couple of shapes and recognises numbers 1-9 (but can't really count, obviously) and he is 23 months.

my DD, 24 months, has known her colours for a few months now. I think it's down to her obsession with drawing and colouring!