7 Hands-On Activities To Teach Your Kids About Colors And Color Words

Are you working on teaching your little ones about colors and color words? If so, the 7 hands-on activities in this blog post are some of my favorites. I absolutely love teaching about colors, and I’m guessing you will too.

Teach Colors and Color Words: Hands-On Activities For Kids

1. Practice color identification with a scavenger hunt.

Get your kids up and moving! Hold up a sign with the color word and count backward from 30.

Have each child find something to hold up that matches the color on the sign your holding. You can easily simplify the activity by writing each color word in colored ink or make it more challenging by using black ink.

This is a great brain break activity for little ones and can be repeated throughout the year.

2. Introduce colors and color words with books.

Books are a great way to explore all sorts of topics. Colors and color words are no exception. Picture books can be great tools for introducing color mixing (affiliate links).

I also like to introduce color words with emergent readers that provide plenty of practice reading each color word.

3. Use art activities to explore all the colors.

Color words are the perfect topic to pair with art projects. Break out the paint or colored dough and let kids explore color mixing. Talk about the colors kids are using.

Wrap up the art with a shared writing activity describing what different colors the kids used and the colors they made.

4. Introduce hues and shades with color-sorting activities.

Color sorting is a great introductory activity. It’s an easy activity to use to introduce independent centers in early kindergarten.

If a child struggles with color sorting, keep in mind that some children have color blindness. That may need to be ruled out.

5. Teach color words with dough stamping.

Buy or make some dough in each color. Have your students use letter stamps to spell each color word.

It’s fun, multi-sensory learning, and it makes a great center or small group activity.

6. Use coloring worksheets to teach color words and build fine motor skills.

Activities like coloring, cut-and-paste pages, and tracing build fine motor strength. Coloring is also an activity many kids enjoy.

Color word worksheets work well for morning work, homework, or independent work. They’re also a calming activity.

Try Color Word Practice Pages To Teach Color Words

7. Add to the fun with color theme days.

Assign a different color each day. Add to the fun by encouraging kids to wear the color of the day. You could even make color crowns with the kids each day.