As back to school draw near, is your child ready for preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten school? Their are several skills including colors that they should know. If your student is learning their colours, this color matching activity matching pencils and erasers is just what you are looking for! Use this color matching activities for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners as a first day of school activity.

Color Matching Activity
Color recognition is a skill young children often learn by playing. We could provide learning opportunities like these “pencils and erasers” activity for them to consolidate those skills in a fun way! By doing hands-on color activities for preschoolers, children are able to work on matching colors while having fun creating a complete pencil. All you need for this color matching activity are colored crafts sticks, colorful pompoms, and a sharpie markers. If you do this color activity for preschool with your child, you can talk through the colors and even write the colour name on the craft stick pencil to work on learning color names too.
Color Matching Activities for Toddlers
What do you need:
- Colored popsicle/craft sticks
- Pompoms or mini erasers
- Marker
First Day of School Activity
Draw pencil shapes(rectangle with triangle) on your sticks with the marker, leaving a space at the “back” for the eraser.(Our purple stick was a bit too dark to show the lines of the pencil in the images)
PS- you can add the color name too if you’d like the child to start recognizing the names.
First Week of School Activity
Provide a tweezers or tongs together with the pencils and erasers and ask the child to match the colors!
This activity can be placed in a small bag(pencil bag or Ziploc bag) or box and be used as a busy bag during traveling, waiting times or quiet time! Pair it with a color die/dice and make a game out of it with two players- see who can match their erasers first by the luck of the dice!
Learning Colors
This is such a FUN, hands-on activity for learning colors!
Learning Color Names
- Learn color names with this cute craft with our Free Printable Crayon Box Template
- Color Worksheets for young learners
- Free Printable Color Word Puzzles (in color or black and white)
- Learning Colors Printables – color the crayon and trace the color name
- Free The Colors of Fall Printable book
- Pumpkin Color Words Printable
- Fall Color Name Sticker Activity Sheets
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- Learning Colors Fall Games for Kids
- Free Preschool Turkey Coloring Pages
Color Sorting Printables
- Kite Matching Printable – Learning Colors for Toddlers Games
- FREE Printable Color Puzzles
- Color Soring Printable or these Farm Free Color Sorting Printable Mats
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- Spring Soring Activity -free printable colored eggs into baskets
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- Do-a-Dot Color Word Recognition Worksheets
Learning Colors Activity
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Color Printables
- Super cute Color Flashcards
- Free Printable Color Flashcards
- Chameleon Learning Colors Worksheets
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- Free Octopus Printables – color matching activity
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- Free Printable Color Matching Worksheet
- Fruit Loop rainbow printable template
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Color Activities for Kids
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- See all of our color activities for kids
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- Pretty Oil and Water Experiment Worksheet
First Day of School Printables
Get ready for the first day of school with your 1st day signs, a fun game, 1st day of school craft, and these cute coloring pages!
- First Day of School Signs
- Free Printable First Day of Preschool Sign
- Back to School BINGO
- Celebrate by making a cute, free printable First Day of School Preschool Craft
- First Day of School Hat Craft for Kindergartners
- Printable Back to School Coloring Pages
Back to School Printables
We have lots of other fun, clever back to school worksheets to help kids get excited about going back to school! Check out these free resources:
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- Back to School Lego Challenge First Week of School Activities
- Super Cute and Easy Pencil Craft
- Crack the Code Back to School Worksheets – addition and subtraction
- Pencil themed Fraction Puzzles
- Work on phonics and literacy with these adorable Crayon Box CVC Words Activity
- Free Hand Washing Printables
- Lots of clever Back to School Crafts or these Back to School Crafts ideas
- Back to School Pencil Punctuation Activities
- Glue Stick rhyming activities
Back to School Activities
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- Sticky Number Bonds Worksheets
- School Bus Letter Matching Game
- Glue Stick Number Bonds Worksheets
- What Comes Next Back to School Math
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- I Spy Colors Crayon Worksheet
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- I Spy Back to School Worksheets
- School Supplies Tracing Worksheet
- Back to School Color by Number Worksheets
- Cute Back to School Activity Count to 20 Clip Cards
- Pencil themed Counting Puzzles for Preschoolers
- Printable Back to School ABC Games
- Back to School Preschool Number Worksheets 1-10
- Playdough Counting Mat Bus Activities for Preschoolers
- Back to School Printables Bundle
- All About Me Graphic Organizer for the 1st day of school
- Lego All About Me Worksheet
- All About Me Worksheet
- Watermelon All About Me Poster
- Clever All About Me Puzzle
- All About Me Poster Pennants
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