When did your little ones learn colors?

Both Sam and Emily can identify the colors green (geen), yellow (lellow), red (reh), blue (bleh), pink (this one is pronounced correctly) purple (purpuh) and orange (owenge). They can get them right about 4 times out of 5. I have to give most of the credit to their daycare (I really love thier school) because I was blown away when they started correctly answering my questioning of what color is that. They will now spontaneously identify the color of things, like this morning when DH walked into their room with a red shirt on and Em started pointing at him saying "reh shirr daddy, reh shirr" Sam pointed out a "lellow cool bus" on the way home from daycare the other day. I about had to pull the car over and give him a hug I was so proud and amazed!

Okay, so I turned this into a bit of a brag, but when I ask other friends about their kids, most of them said that their's didn't pick up their colors before 2, so I was just wondering...

 

Seamus knows red, blue, green and purple. Nicholas does not know any.

 

no colors here yet. Your kids are doing great!

 

My girls learned them pretty early, I think around 18-20 months. I know it's unusual and I am so not the type to brag. I totally give the credit to Signing Time. Volume 6 has "Colors of the Rainbow" and it is by far their favorite ST.

 

QUOTE(Snittens @ May 11 2008, 08:32 PM) [snapback]767866[/snapback]
My girls learned them pretty early, I think around 18-20 months. I know it's unusual and I am so not the type to brag. I totally give the credit to Signing Time. Volume 6 has "Colors of the Rainbow" and it is by far their favorite ST.



Same here. We love Signing Time! I think that is how they learned their letters too.

-Kimberly

 

Jessica had them down pat about a year ago-so 18 months. Katelyn was a couple months later and just not as interested. My mom says I could identify them by age one and both my brothers were around 2.

 

My boys were sort of clueless with respect to colors when I attempted it around 18/20m. I sort of gave up trying and then, out of nowhere, doing NOTHING, they knew them all suddenly around 23m. They are still not sure about things like grey and pink.

I felt like we went through the same thing for letter and number recognition. I really tried around 18/20m with letters and numbers/counting with no success. At 25m, they say the whole alphabet and can count to 20.

 

I'd have to go back and check but my guess would also be 18-20 months. I also think my girls are very visual and very into color, so if that's early that could explain it. (Or they are just little geniuses ;0 ).

 

My girls have a hard time with colors still. They can identify pink and purple no problem (wonder why, ha ha), but they mix up some of the other ones. They are WAY more interested in the shapes of things than what colors they are (weird?) They know the signs of the colors though We LOVE signing time.

 

Three of mine had colors at 18 months. The other one, DS2, was Not Interested in learning that sort of thing. I finally forced him to learn colors and shapes at 2.5 (this sounds bad, but isn't: I made a chart that had shapes in rows and colors in columns and we reviewed it horizontally and vertically once a day until he got it) because they can't fetch if they can't understand the description of an item.

My nephew had no colors at age 4, but I think that's because no one bothered to introduce the concept to him. I tend to be one of those, "Oh a car, a red car, see the pretty red car?" moms.

eta: wrote "numbers" instead of "colors"--it's too early!

 

We have been working with our girls as well. Colors we are still working hard on. We work with them everyday, but they just can't keep those straight. They can get pink and orange, but other than that I think they just guess. They do much better with numbers and alphabet.

 

Grace had most of them down by age 2, but Lily thinks everything is yellow. Seriously, if you ask her what color something is, she always says yellow (it is cute!).

 

A few months ago for mine, probably shorty after they turned two where they actually got it right, before that lots of things were blue or green.

 

I think they started getting the concept of color around 15-18 months. But for a long time, everything was "red" or "blue" or whatever their favorite color word happened to be at the moment. I'd say by 2 years, they could identify most of the major colors accurately.

My girls learn a lot of that stuff in daycare, so I can't take any credit for it!

 

DS isn't bothered yet...but DD knows purple and red (can say them too!), blue and orange...has a bit of trouble with green and yellow.

 

QUOTE(fourznuff @ May 11 2008, 11:49 PM) [snapback]767891[/snapback]
Same here. We love Signing Time! I think that is how they learned their letters too.

-Kimberly

Count us in too! Signing Time really help to get their letters, numbers, and colors too.

Today, I was playing w/Rianna with her piggy bank. She drop in a coin and said 1, and I said 2, and then she said 3, and then I said 4, and then she said 5 like she was trying to finish after each number in that order. They both know Red, Blue, Yellow, and Green (Orange, Black, White, and Purple are the hardest for them but they do know what color goes with it).

 

I think we picked them up around 18 months. I think shapes probably came next around 18-20 months and now we're singing the ABCs at 2. Yes a bit of a brag but I'm so proud of my big boy.

 

my 2 have known their alphabet by sight since about 20 mos (DS will actually grab a book and start reading letters off!) and they can count to 14 but everything is green for DD and puhpuh (purple) for DS :laughing: I credit the letters and numbers completely to Sesame Street though - they LOVE it!