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50+ Color Recognition Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers

July 31, 2021
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by Nadia

Whether you are working on color recognition, color mixing, learning color names, or just like bright, cheery, colorful activities – you will love this HUGE list of over 50 colour recognition activities These color activities for toddlers, pre-k, toddler, kindergarten, and first grade students are a great way to learn colors in a fun way. We have color activities for preschool including color sorting, rainbow slime, color science, gross motor color activities and so much more!

Whether you are working on color recognition, color mixing, learning color names, or just like bright, cheery, colorful activities - you will love this HUGE list of over 50 color recognition activities. These color activities for preschool, toddler, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students. We have color sorting, rainbow slime, color science, gross motor color activities and so much more!

Color activities for preschool

Make learning colors fun with these super cute and fun color recognition activities. We have found so many clever color recognition activities for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and grade 1 students! When you are looking for color activities for kids -these are truly the BEST color activities on pinterest! From hands-on color sorting, colorful art activities, color crafts, color science experiments, and more colour recognition activities, these really are the best ideas for exploring colors with kids. And if you still want more (gasp) you can see all of our color activities for kids!  Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will love adding these color activitiy ideas to your day!

Color activities for toddlers

Check out these super clever and FUN color activities for toddlers:

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Color recognition activities for toddlers

Use colors to teach science or STEM concepts like color mixing with ice or color mixing with shaving cream , color changing milk, walking colors, frozen rainbow eruptions, and even make your own rainbow paper with these preschool color activities.

Work on those fine motor skills by Feeding the monster or pushing colored popsicle sticks through slits in a can. Play a game of sorting rainbow pompoms or Stack-a-Rainbow with colored stones, clever!

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Colour recognition activities for toddlers

You can incorporate the sensory aspect to these color activities so that your child can have multi-sensory experiences in terms of learning about colors and remember better too. Try to make this pretty awesome rainbow slime, rainbow painting with cards, color sorting sensory bag with buttons, color sensory bottle or rainbow jello

or make colorful, edible sand! You can even color rice and sand too!

Color Activty for Kids

Preschool color activities

Let the children experience colors by using a whole body approach, that is gross motor activities. Make your own DIY Ring Toss or Color Toss or Color Skee Ball. Frugal fun! Play this gross motor color game, Color Hop and preschool color game the kids will love!

And if you want to have a colorful snack, try these easy to make rainbow toast.

Practice matching colors with this “pencil & erase” matching activity perfect for back to school.

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Colour recognition activities

So many bright and cheery color activity ideas to develop your children’s color recognition skills and all look like such fun! Which one will you try first?

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Learning Color Names

  Young children will have fun learning eleven different colors with these fun and free Color Puzzles.This colors printables is a fun way for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners to learn color names and work on color discrimination. This color matching game is perfect for early learners. SImply download pdf file with color activity for toddlers and you are ready to play and learn.  Looking for a fun and hands-on farm activity? Check out this sorting colors activity with a fun farm theme. Use these On the Farm Color Sorting Mats  to keep your toddler, preschool, pre-k and kindergarten students engaged and learning at the same time. Simply print farm printables for this coloru sorting activities.  dinosaur activities

Color Sorting Printables

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Learning Colors Activity

free printable color flashcards  Free Octopus Color Matching Pearl Color Matching Activity Young children will have fun learning eleven different colors with these fun and free Color Matching Worksheets. These color printables for preschool are a fun way for toddler, pre-k, and kindergarten age kids to work on color recognition with lack, blue, pink, red, orange, purple, green, yellow, brown, white, and gray. Simply print pdf file with Colour Matching Worksheets and you are ready to learn and play.

Color Printables

rainbow color matching game  If your child is learning their colors, they will love these free printable preschool painting worksheets. Grab these colors printables and color by code to work on color recognition with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students. You can use paint, crayons, markers, bingo daubers, or any other material your child enjoys to complete these preschool color worksheets. Simply print pdf file with these Colors Worksheets and you are ready to play and learn! Help toddler, preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten age children work on color recognition with this color activity for preschoolers. This colors printable is such a fun way for kids to learn basic colors and color names too. These printable color puzzles are a preschool color activities free. Simply print pdf file with learning colors printables, print, and put together the puzzles to learn preschool colors of red, yellow, orange, pink, white, brown, black, green, and purple. This free pirate printables can be combiled into a mini book to teach colours name for kids. Each page focuses on a different color to helping learning colors for kids in preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade learn all about eleven different colors while practicing their handwriting skills and working on their fine motor skills. Simply print the Learning colors printables and you are ready to play and learn with this no-prep activity.

If your kids love slime - they are going to flip over making Rainbow Slime! Use this rainbow activity for kids as part of your next rainbow theme for spring or summer. This colorful slime recipe is also a really fun St Patricks day activity, a weather activity, or a color theme too!   Toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade and 4th grade students will love this rainbow art ideas. Just follow our simple rainbow slime recipe and we will show you how to make rainbow slime. pretty rainbow craft for spring Kids are going to love this really fun Frozen Rainbow Eruptions science activity where kids will make beautiful rainbows as they create a chemical reaction! This baking soda and vinegar experiment! This rainbow activities for preschoolers usese a couple simple materials for a mesmerizing, colorful preschool summer activity! Use this rainbow science with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders. Have you ever tried making a Rainbow in a Jar project? If you haven't tried this classic density experiment, I'm going to show you how easy it is to make with a few common household items! This rainbow science experiment is so pretty and will amaze your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade students. Try this rainbow experiment as part of a weather theme, St Patricks Day activity, a rainbow theme or a spring activity for kids. 

Color Activities for Kids

capillary-action-science-experiment-for-kids You will love this outrageously fun painting with cars activity where kids will make a cheery rainbow painting using hotwheel vehicles. This rainbow painting for kids is a silly rainbow painting ideas that your kids will LOVE! Use this for a rainbow theme, car theme, spring theme, or just a fun play ativity with kids. Try this car activities for kids with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students.  edible sand for toddlers Kids are going to be wowed and amazed as they learn how to make rainbow crystals in this fun rainbow activity for kids! You can quickly and easily grow your own crystals with these fun spring activities for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade students.  This borax crystals science project is perfect for celebrating spring, as a St Patricks day activity, or a rainbow activity for preschoolers.

Rainbow Activities for Kids

A to Z Letter Find Worksheets  Kids love to play with playdough! Combine playdough and learning letters with these super cute alphabet playdough mats. While using these playdough letter mats children will be encouraged to create play dough letters and finish the pictures while learning their ABCs and the sounds they make. This free alphabet printable is such a FUN alphabet activity to use with play doh and markers or crayons! Use these alphabet playdoh mats with your toddler, preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten age child. Simply print the letter mats pdf file and you are ready to play and learn with this alphabet activity.  Looking for a fun abc printable to help kids learn their alphabet letters, learn vocabulary, and work on phonemic awareness. These hugely popular alphabet hats are a great way to introduce students to the letters in the alphabet from A to Z. There is a different hat to make for each letter - perfect to go with a letter of the week program for toddlers, preschoolers, pre k, and kindergartners. Kids need lots of practice tracing letters to improve handwriting! These super cute,  free printable alphabet worksheets are a handy tool for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, or first grade students. With these alphabet worksheets children will get the practice writing alphabet letters they need to write letters A to Z. Simply print pdf file with free alphabet worksheets and you are ready to practice upper and lowercase tracing letters.

FREE Alphabet Printables

Looking for more abc printables for kids? You have tons of free alphabet printables

alphabet coloring pages free-printable-alphabet-worksheets-1 Printable alphabet crafts Have fun learning you’re ABCs with this super fun, free printable pirate worksheets. This pirate alphabet learning activity is a great for your toddler, preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten age  students to learn their alphabet letters. On each of the pirate theme abc worksheets is a treasure map to find and color the clipart with the beginning sound featured on the alphabet workheet, alphabet tracing by the pirtae skull and crossbone flag, and find the letter by the treasure chest. This alphabet activity is such a fun, no prep way to learn letters from A to Z. Simply print the pdf file for this preschool pirate theme printables that requires no prep work whatsoever. 

Alphabet Activities for Kids

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Nadia

Nadia is South African mom to two littlies, a former preschool teacher and currently working as a reading therapist at a remedial school. She blogs over at teach-me-mommy.com about easy and playful activities inspiring you to be your child's first teacher.

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