14 Activities for Learning Colours

Here are some ideas I used with my preschoolers to help them learn their colours:

Colour Activity #1:
Mystery Colour Bag

Walk Away the Pounds

I've blogged about the Walk Away the Pounds DVD that I have before. But I wanted to add this new one that I got last summer because I love it!

Learning Colours with a Food Flyers Train

My kids love trains so they really enjoy this project. Each time we learned a new colour, we'd add a new train car to the wall.

My Kids Crack Me Up!

My 3 year old says the funniest things sometimes. Here's some that could go in Reader's Digest's "Laughter is the Best Medicine."

Pretend Kitchen Play

I don't usually let my kids play with my kitchen stuff. But I like to make an exception occasionally.

Best Ever Quinoa Chocolate Cupcakes

These cupcakes are melt-in-your-mouth delicious! They remind me of French Silk Pie; they are so rich! And they are so smooth and fluffy from the whipped egg. It may surprise you that these brownie-like treats have NO FLOUR!

Learning Colours with a Construction Paper Paste

After learning a new colour, reinforce it by doing a Construction Paper Paste.

Canadian Milk?

I've heard lots of things about milk. And lots of it, I think, is probably true- but is it true in Canada?

Learning Colours with Playdough

Playing with colourful playdough is a great way to reinforce the colours.

Homemade Fig Newtons

I was looking for some alternative snacks for my kids that are actually healthy. My husband bought a box of fig newtons (they were either GMO free or organic-or both!) for $8 and I thought, why couldn't I make them? And came across these. Mmmm!

Learning Colours by Making Colourful Caterpillars

This was a fun craft and pretty inexpensive.

Snow Removal

We had some great entertainment out the window yesterday. My kids really enjoyed watching the trucks removing the snow. They have a great view from our apartment balcony. I'm really thankful for a street side view.

Learning Colours with Colouring Pages

Colouring pictures is a great way to learn colours.

Chewy Coconut Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

We tried out this recipe on the blog Baking Bites and the cookies were delicious!

Learning Colours with Frosting

This activity works great as a review after learning all six of these colours. This one is really fun because you learn that the primary colours mix together to make the complementary colours (but maybe not in so many words).

Cinnamon Can Cause Diaper Rash

My 9 month old started getting really bad diaper rashes to the point of bleeding. I used zinc creams and coconut oil, but it wouldn't go away. I thought it was just a result of starting to eat more solids and that he was perhaps eating too much acidic food like tomatoes or berries. But after breakfast one morning I noticed that my older two sons as well as my baby all had redness around their mouths where their oatmeal had come into contact with their skin. It was the cinnamon I put in their oatmeal. 

Learning Colours with Towers

Practice colours by stacking blocks all of one colour. 

How to Make Stovetop Coffee in a Moka Express Bialetti

My husband and I really enjoy our coffee and at home we make it the way we like it, in a Bialetti. This was learned from my husband's Italian grandparents and we make it the same way they did. (Even in the same pot which they passed on to us!)

Learning Colours with the Lollipop Game

I made these lollipops out of construction paper and blunted skewer sticks. The kids loved them!

Gone Fishin' Game

If you are ever looking for a game a 3 year old and 2 year old can play (and play together!), this is a good one. When you switch it on, the fish turn around and around bobbing up and down. When they come up, they open their mouths so you have to get the fish hook in their mouth before they bob down again and close it.

Learning Colours with Books

There are lots of great books about colours. Here are just a couple that we really enjoyed:

Lemons are Not Red by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

4 Ideas for Homemade "Carpet" Roads

My boys love to play with their cars and over time we've made a few different kinds of roads for our kids to play with their cars on. 

Parchment Paper Road

Learning Colours with the Mystery Colour Bag

The Mystery Colour Bag is great for first introducing a colour.

Baby #4: 20 Weeks Pregnant

I'm 20 weeks along today and halfway through the pregnancy!

Sing, Spell, Read & Write Pre-Kindergarten

I would think that the very first academic schooling a child should get is to learn how to read! Once a child knows how to read, he can learn anything else he wants to. It really is a foundation to all other learning, academically anyway. So when I began thinking about homeschooling my kids, the very first thing I went in search of was a good phonics program.