[Ilaria]

When were your children able to tell colors?

Edited to add: my son is 3 and HAS NO CLUE about colors.
For example, I show him a green car, and he says it's red, a yellow ball and he says it's pink or whatever. He can separate things by color (all yello wballs here, all blue balls there)...so he sees the difference, but cannot label them.
He is otherwise very verbal (and mostly bilingual).

 

[FreeRangeMama]

My ds1 (he is 3) could identify most shapes and colors by pointing to them at around 6 months. Ds2 shows no interest in these things and he is 9 mo. I assume he will be much older when he figures them out

 

[EmmalinesMom]

Em can do most colors now, at almost 3. She still gets mixed up with blue and green sometimes though. The fact that he can see the differences by sorting them should put your mind at ease.

The names/labels will come.

 

[intensity_too]

Joe is 2.5 y/o and says all colors are blue but when asked to find the green crayon (or anything else) he can do it. I think all babies learn this skill at a different rate and things like speech development play a part. Joe has only been "talking" for a year and most of his speech is still hard to understand so maybe he is saying the colors and I just don't know.

 

[FroNuff]

I was just wondering this same thing recently! I have no idea if it's true identifying of colors, or just a lucky guess, but when I ask DD1 to ID colors in one particular book, she gets them right most of the time. It's always with this one book, though, so she may have memorized them.

BTW, DD1 is 20 months (today!).

 

[slightly crunchy]

I read somewhere that many kids can't correctly identify colors consistently until age 4.

Ds is 25 months and the only color he consistently gets all the time is yellow. He gets red, blue and green about half the time, but mixes up among them the rest of the time.

 

[octobersweethearts]

When I was doing developmental screening with children, most of the testing instruments we used wanted children at 3 to be able to match colors....put a blue block on a matching blue block, red on red, etc.

They didn't have to know or point to which one was blue until age 4.

Hope this helps!
Dana

 

[Mama2Ethan]

DS started IDing them at about 15 months. Hes now 2. But let me tell you shapes are another thing. Everything is a triangle (last month it was a circle.)

 

[Daffodil]

Lindy is almost 17 months, and a couple weeks ago it was like something just clicked for her and she "got" colors. She doesn't talk much, so she doesn't say color names except for blue, but when we ask her to pick out a thing of a certain color, she can identify blue, green, red, yellow, orange, and maybe purple and white.

 

[*Erin*]

dd's 21 months and she knows her colors. she gets mixed up with brown, orange and yellow sometimes though! she knows shapes as well. (not the crazy ones, like hexagons and stuff, but the basics! triangle, rect., circle, square...)

 

[FreeRangeMama]

Wow, I am so glad to read this thread. Like I mentioned in my first post ds1 could identify his shapes and colors consistantly at 6 months, but ds2 is 9 months and is no where close to that level. I probably would have been worried if he was not doing it by 18 months. Already dh and I get a little concerned at times. Ds1 is really all I have to go on and he is quite advanced so it is hard to figure out where ds2 should be in these areas. Its so hard to know where he should be developmentally. Now I know he is probably YEARS away from knowing these things

Thanks for sharing all your expertise!!

 

[sleeping queen]

I taught my first dd colors with M&Ms. She caught on real fast when she got to eat the ones she named right.

I don't remember how old she was.

 

[ctdoula]

My dd (just turned 2) knows red, yellow & green (from traffic lights...she also knows red means stop, LOL).

 

[Maggie'sMomma]

We have the book "Goodnight Sweet Butterflies- a color dreamland" and this is where Maggie has learned her colors. She knows yellow, blue, green, purple, orange, pink, red, gold, and white. She also knows red is rojo and blue is azul. A great book if you want to work on colors.

 

[Ilaria]

Thanks, I feel better now!
His old pediatrician did say color knowledge varies GREATLY among kids, but I have a tendency not to believe him so I wnated to ask here!! :LOL

 

[allgirls]

My oldest daughter was around 15mos when it "clicked" and she could label all the colors and would get really confused as to shades...light pink and dark pink she would ask over and over again...like she didn't believe me...

My middle daughter was a little older...I always use colours when I talk to the kids..."look at the purple ball, look at the yellow car" etc and eventually it naturally clicked...