When will a child acquire the concept of colors? How to teach colors to one year old?

Question

When will a child acquire the concept of colors? How to teach colors to one year old?

Answer 1

The best way to teach a one year old about colors is to wait until he's a little older. Give him a little time just to be a baby.

Answer 2

My son started to really show color recognition when he was about 2.5 years old. He's now 3 years old and really does a great job with colors.

We have been playing color games from the time he was 1 year old. I ask,

"What color is my shirt?"

"What color is this banana?"

"What color is the leaf?"

Repetition helps a great deal.

Answer 3

By age 2 children can start to recognize colors but may not always be able to communicate that with you verbally. The easiest way to teach colors is to include it in your daily communication with the baby/child. For instance, "do you want the blue ball?" "look at the green grass" "that puppy is white"... It feels funny at first but the concepts sink in and you will find your child pointing out colors to you. My 3 yr old knows his colors and has had a favorite since around age 2.

Books and videos are helpful but the best way to teach is one on one. Just make it natural and the learning comes easy.

All the best!

Answer 4

One year olds are capable of seeing and recognizing color, but they rarely have reason to pay attention to it. If, say, their favorite food was in the blue tupperware while their least favorite was in the yellow tupperware, then presumably they could learn to differentiate, but it normally is a non-issue to them except that bright, saturated colors are pretty.

Answer 5

I used to be a teacher in a 3 yr old classroom at a daycare center. Generally, children start "learning" their colors in the 2yr old classroom, but they understand them and recognize and perfect their skills in the 3 and 4yr old classroom. However, some children are ready at an earlier age - you know if your child is ready or not. At 1 yrs old, unless your child is  talking in complete sentences, and you feel like she could learn them, then don't bother. However, if she is ready you can teacher her colors in a variety of ways - flashcards, colored blocks, toys, etc.

Answer 6

Teach the basic ones first.....red, blue and yellow. Then after a few days, give some examples to him/her. After a month, teach new colors. But don't mix colors YET like blue green and somethin' like that. Teach him/her about it when he/she gets older.

Answer 7

My little boy is 2 and has little to no concept of the different colors.  He just turned two and is just picking up on  words and putting a couple of words together.  We do have a book that has the different colors, and we read it almost daily and I think that one of these days he'll just kind of catch on.  I know several 3 year olds that know their colors.  To me - it would make sense that talking and colors go together.  

If you want to associate something with a specific color, I suggest being very consistent.

Answer 8

Just use day to day stuff to point out colors to your child. But don't expect him/her to aquire a good concept of them for a while. Generally they will begin around age 2 to zero in on the basic colors.

Answer 9

Just be descriptive with your language, always mentioning the colors of things. Instead of bring me your truck say bring me your big, blue truck. Also get some chunky crayons and let them scribble, it's a good time to point out colors when they are actually manipulating a crayon. Don't make it a lesson, make it part of normal life. If you do this in about a years time he/she will know basic colors. Very young children need repeated experiences with objects to understand their meaning, just another reason why you read them the same book 20 times a day : ). 2 is a good age to work with colors and shapes more formally.