Color Wheel Fidget Spinner Activity for Learning Color Names

If you have a toddler, or pre-k kindergarten, or preschool learning colors, you will love this clever color wheel fidget. Children will use their fidget spinner to point to a color, lift the paper plate flap, and learn color names! This outrageously FUN learning colors for kids craft project is sure to provide hours and hours of educational enjoyment playing a color game for kids.

Color wheel fidget

This outrageously EASY and CLEVER color wheel fidget activity is sure to be a hit in your house! You will use a fidget spinner and markers with this paper plate project to help kids learn color names. Use this color activity on it’s own as a learning colors for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners idea or as a fun color game. Whetner you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will love this colours for kindergarten activity.

make color recognition activity with two paper plates, markers and fidget spinner

Color Game for kids

What you need to make the color wheel:

2x paper plates
Markers/crayons/paint(a variety of colors)
Spinner
Glue
Scissors

color recognition activity for toddler, preschool, prek, and kindergarten age kids

Preschool learning colors

Add the circles of colors around the one plate. I *tried* spacing it out without much planning. You can measure it out and let the older kids figure it out as part of a lesson too.

Learning colors for kids

Then, add the color names to the other plate. Cut the flaps as shown below and glue the two plates together so that the corresponding color is atop of the color name.

Draw a spinner shape in the middle of the plate where the spinner should be placed. Add a tiny arrow from paper, cardboard or craft foam to the spinner. Ready to play!

fidget spinner color activities for kids

Learn color names

Color scavenger hunt: Find a blue object, for example, first player back get the point!

Touch a color: touch a certain color in the room, first player that touches correct color gets a point!
Do you wear *color* today? Get a point for each color.
Spell the colors name: everyone gets a point for correct spelling of color name.

These games can be played informally or by keeping scores. My eldest liked the challenge of keeping score and that was incidental Maths work for her too! My youngest was in charge of the spinner;)