When do toddler know their colors?

My daughter, Rianna will be 2-1/2 years old at the end of March. I kept telling my husband that I think Rianna is color blind because she keep saying the wrong color when I show her pictures, crayons, and etc. My son knows the different colors and say it correctly too. My husband think she doesn't understand color assocated with word at times. When are they expect to know the different color?

Thanks!
RJ

 

One of my girls knew them all at 27 months, and the other around 29 months, although she gets red and green mixed up a lot still.

I was told by our speech therapist through Early Intervention that 30 months is typical.

 

I think every child is different. My dd knew her colors before she was 2. My son just in the past month started getting them right, consistantly and not by guessing. :good: I too wondered if he might be color blind :blush: but I would "test" him out by asking him to match socks... or this color to something of the same color (make sense?) and he could match them it was just that he didn't know the name yet. Then out of no where he started getting them right, all the time. Keep on working on it and she will get it!!

 

Thanks for letting me know

 

It sounds like she knows her colors (as far as saying them) but doesn't put the 2 together. She will in time. It took mine a little bit after they learned the colors to name them correctly. I think that is pretty normal as far as learning goes. Right now we are working on the ABC's and it's pretty much the same thing. They know what an "A" is, but they don't always point it out correctly. In time I know they will.

 

I think it varies a lot. Both of my kids seemed to know all theirs by the age of 2 or so, but there are 3-year-olds in their class now who still mix them up.

 

Mine are definitely struggling with colors, but part of me thinks, this just isn't a topic that interests them right now. Where as Joel, is doing GREAT with his letters, and Bryan only knows O. HOwever, today, Bryan was practically counting into the teens, and Joel could care less about counting. KWIM? I think the letters are what fascinates one, counting interests the other, and they'll have new interests next week. I wouldn't worry right now!

 

Agree that it's all over the board. Nadia knew them all before 22 months (I remember an incident at that age where we discovered she really knew them) -- but Kevan & Karina aren't even close.

 

Ella knows her at just 2 years but Addison still calls eveyrthing "yellow!" I think they say by 3 they should know them.

 

The twins knew thers by 2. M & M's are a very good teaching tool. Cody might be 5 before he knows his.

 

Some of mine knew before 2, but DS2 was Not Interested in colors. My nephew was 4 before his mother even started teaching him colors, and yet he is almost done with 5th grade now and he's fine.

Colorblindness is fairly rare in girls, only one in 200 girls is colorblind. (My DH is colorblind, but he never knew until he was in his 20s and entered the Army.)

 

I'm so glad to hear that it is RARE for girls to be color blind. Now I can relax and just keep practicing with both of them. The next question is when do they need to go see an eye doctor just to be sure?

 

My one daughter knew most of her colors well before the other, although I don't remember exactly when that was. Lily, for a long while, would say everything was yellow. She learned them though, and they both know all their colors now.

 

Our girls knew them around age 2, one before the other. But they were REALLY into colors and one DD is an obsessive at drawing and memorized them by marker color.

I would ask your eye dr. They tested my girls for the first time for colorblindness (the dr said they do see it in girls, though less often) becuase they had to be able to know their numbers ( numbers of one color are hidden in another color) 0-9.

 

I don't remember. BUT I do know that the 3 year old preschool curriculum consisted basically of colors and shapes. Each month was dedicated to learning a different color and shape.

 

Every child is different. I wouldn't worry and just keep working on it with her. My kids are 2.9 years and they know their ABC's, 1-10 (although counting in order is an issue), and some colors and get them mixed up all the time. She'll get the hang of it soon as will mine