Ideas to help a 3 year old learn her colours?

[babylady4]

You might want to check and see if she if she is color blind if she cannot correctly pin her colors after you try some of the ideas mentioned here. My brother is color blind and he ended up learning them by reading the wrapper of the crayon........

 

[saddina]

Color buddies....

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We used this when doing preschool, there's a color mascot each week, and a few things to color. Example:

Red:
Rosie red (color mascot)
-coloring page
- flower craft
- color an apple red
- make a red snack out of apples and cherry juice
- make a red picture (we'd look at paining done in all one color, like picasso's blue period, and see how many kinds of a color to find, navy, turquoise, baby blue, blue grey, etc.) then pull out all the red crayons/markers/paints and they could draw whatever in that color using different shades.

do 1 color a week, and she'll have them all. Remeber colors are abjectives so use them as one... "Sara would you bring me your red ball?" (not asking her to pick out the red ball in a bunch of balls, but rather the only ball is red). "Today we're using a blue cup"

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

While I think that doing some of the things that are mentioned makes sense, and I certainly think that having her vision checked for her ability to see in colour, I don't think that following a formal program with a 3 year old (older or younger 3?) is necessary.

Better to spread out your attention and engage her in observing and learning from the environment. Certainly colours are a part of that, but pointing out stop signs as you encounter them and asking her to identify and point them out, or people wearing hats, or trees with flowers or fruit or people walknig dogs are as much a part. Get colour/number/rhyming picture books from the library or bookstore and read several daily. Watch Sesame Street on TV or DVD/video. If she likes workbooks, get a general one for preschoolers that covers a number of subjects and let her do a page or two now and again.

edited to add, far more boys than girls are colour blind, and there are different types of colourblindedness.

 

[mamaKate]

Can she recognize numbers? The color blindness tests are usually based on picking a number in a pattern of colored dots. 3 of my five kids are color blind and my 3 yr old grandaughter is having the same problems you described. You might want to ease up a bit till you're sure. My guys managed better as they grew up. Try not to make an issue of it. If you don't care, she won't either. It's just a difference, not a real handicap.