She can recite the colors, when will she know them?

[sapphire_chan]

Thanks to the ever so glorious Signing Time, Lina has started singing "red, orange, yellow, green, purple, and bluuuu-uuu-uu-oooo *clap clap clap clap*"

She sometimes seems to know which are which. But mostly not.

So when does actually knowing colors come?

[FnkyGreenMama]

I think it has just started in the past few weeks with almost 23 month old DS. He used to get them right 50/50, and now he is getting red and blue right every time. Green, almost every time. He's still working on the others. I sometimes wonder if different shades of colors confuse things a bit.

[sparklett]

We found that DS was able to recognize colors quicker when we started using analogies. For example, we would say "that's yellow like a banana" or "green like grass" or "red like Lightning McQueen" (yeah, he likes Cars ). After we started doing that, we would ask him if a color was brown like dirt or yellow like a banana. For some reason, that really helped him identify colors.

[foodymama]

Originally Posted by sparklett

We found that DS was able to recognize colors quicker when we started using analogies. For example, we would say "that's yellow like a banana" or "green like grass" or "red like Lightning McQueen" (yeah, he likes Cars ). After we started doing that, we would ask him if a color was brown like dirt or yellow like a banana. For some reason, that really helped him identify colors.

I agree. DD is 23mo. and she has known her colors for a month or two but what also helped her was that she had bath crayons and we draw with her while she is in the tub and that really enforced getting the colors "right". And we ask her while doing everyday activities what colors things are. We really had fun with colors while decorating Easter eggs!

[ellemenope]

Originally Posted by sapphire_chan

Thanks to the ever so glorious Signing Time, Lina has started singing "red, orange, yellow, green, purple, and bluuuu-uuu-uu-oooo *clap clap clap clap*"

That sounds so cute. It sounds like your DD has a real aptitude for singing. I am so jealous. Mine never sings real songs, and when she sings her own little ditties she has been mistaken for a sick cat. (I am not joking)

DD knew her colors before she could say them. At 18 months she would sometimes get them all right when we asked. But, then sometimes she would not listen. At 19 months she started really talking. Those first 10 colors were among her first hundred words. So, as soon as she said them, we knew she really knew them because she started lableing everything in her speach.

I have heard of 6 month olds knowing colors. I have heard of 3 year olds not knowing colors. All normal. I think the average is around their second birthday. I don't think it is something you can teach. It is something that will just click. I like the PP suggestions, though. That couldn't hurt. I think we did a lot of that. But, if the child is not ready, you could do that till the cows come home...

[sapphire_chan]

I'll definitely try the "yellow like a banana" idea. It's not that I particularly care, she's just been asking for that song over and over lately and asking "color?" as she hands me stuff sometimes. So she seems to have an interest, y'know?

[InMediasRes]

Yeah, I noticed that DS was into colors when he started saying everything was green. For a while he thought the answer to the color question was always green. We just gently corrected, along with telling him the color of eeeevvvveeerrryyythiiiiingggg for a while. Then one day, around 21 mo, it just clicked.

[InMediasRes]

Originally Posted by ellemenope

That sounds so cute. It sounds like your DD has a real aptitude for singing. I am so jealous. Mine never sings real songs, and when she sings her own little ditties she has been mistaken for a sick cat. (I am not joking)

Yeah, my DS is 3 and still doesn't sing any songs that I sing for him. Most of the time he asks me to stop singing (and my voice is professionally trained, so I know it's not me). When he does break into song, he sounds like a dying cow. It's this awful moaning with no words. But he's dancing, so I know he's trying to sing.