Color Activities For Kids

Check out these fun and exciting color activities for kids. Toddlers, preschool and kindergarten children can use these activities and the color worksheets for kids of all ages to learn colors and perfect this important learning skill. Plus recommended reading books that help kids learn the different colors.

With activities, worksheets and reading fun, toddlers and preschoolers can vary their learning colors fun.

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Kids Activities for Learning Colors

Color Collage

color activity for kids collage art work

Create a collage based on a specific color theme. You can use craft supplies like ribbon, yarn, paper, glitter glue and more. Plus add some fun items like buttons, sticks, leaves, feathers and anything you can find that fits your color scheme.

For spring, try a yellow color collage with flowers. Spring brings all kinds of new colors so make several collages with a different color for each theme.

Summer time is great for the color green. With all the new green grass, green bushes and trees, it's the perfect time to go green with your collage.

For Autumn, the colors red, orange, brown and even deep purple are great with all the leaves changing. Orange is of course the perfect color theme around Halloween. For Winter, try cool blue or white themed collages for this color activities idea. Around Christmas time you can make a red and green themed collage bringing all the bright colors of Christmas to your color activity project.

Tie Dyed Art Projects Color Activities

Creating a tie dyed art project is great for learning colors. Here are two ideas to create your colorful art work.

Tie Dyed Paper Towels

This will get a bit messy so make sure to protect your clothes and work space. Dampen a paper towel and lay it flat on your work surface. Using a straw or eye dropper, place a few drops of one color using food coloring.

Repeat this with the next color overlapping just a bit with the first color. If you used two primary colors (blue, yellow or red) you will create a new color when the two colors come together on the wet paper towel.

Keep repeating droppping food coloring on your paper towel until you have the tie dyed look you want. Let this masterpiece dry and then pin it up on the fridge to show off your color activity.

Tie Dyed Coffee Filter Snowflakes

This is similar to the above color actvities but using a coffee filter. Fold your filter several times. Then cut out some triangle shapes and other shapes to create a snowflake. Unfold the filter and dampen it with water.

Use the same method as with the paper towel placing several drops of food coloring until you have the look you want.

Let it dry and then hang it up and enjoy the colorful snowflake decoration. These make great Christmas craft ideas or winter crafts projects.

Color Beads

Beads make a great color activities for kids of all ages. Get some different colored craft beads, some plastic string or fishing line and thread the beads on to make some fun and unique jewelery, book markers or anything you can think of. You can also use craft foam and cut into fun shapes. Then punch a hole in the middle of your cut out and string them on to make some interesting items.

Color Worksheets for kids

Use these color worksheets to help reinforce their learning colors fun. These worksheets are great for toddlers, preschool or kindergarten kids. These are PDF files and will open in a new window/tab. Simply print them off and have your kids do these activities.

Color by number activity
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Color by letter activity
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Counting and Color Activitiy
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Matching Colors to Animals Activity

You can also use these flash cards for helping kids learn colors. There are two of each color so they can also use them to play the memory game. This file has 5 pages and includes the following colors; red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, brown, pink, black and white. There are two colors (4 flash cards) per page. The flash cards are different pictures for each color. For example, there is an orange basketball, brown horse, etc.

For even more color activities for learning colors be sure to check out the color crafts for kids.

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Learning Colors Reading List

Your kids will love reading and learning about colors with these fun books.

Buy this book online	The Color Box Written by Dayle Ann Dodds Illustrated by Giles Laroche Alexander the monkey discovers different colors as he climbs through his color box. As he climbs through the black box, everything around him is black except for a small hole which is yellow. As he enters the world of yellow, he spots an opening with the color orange. The spots and colors change in size, location and shape to keep it fun for the kids.
Buy this book online	Tell me a Season Written Mary McKenna Siddals Illustrated by Petra Mathers Kids learn all about the different colors of the seasons. This book describes the colors of a spring morning, a summer day, a fall evening and a winter night. So you toddler or preschooler will learn all about colors and the changing seasons.
Buy this book online	How Do Dinosaurs Learn Their Colors? Witten by Jane Yolen Kids will love learning colors with these dinosaurs. Colors are introduced by the objects around the dinosaurs like a red truck under the bed, a purple towel left on the floor and a green sign taped to the closet door.
Buy this DVD Online	Colors, Shapes & Counting (DVD-ROM) By Richard Caudle & Brad Caudle Toddlers and preschoolers will "rock out" as they learn their colors, shapes and counting. With fun pop music, sound effects and humor they will not only learn but have a great time while learning some basics like colors, shapes and counting.

Learning Colors
Be sure to read this article and learn all about primary, secondary and tertiary colors.

Online Coloring Game
This is a fun coloring page kids do online. They get to pick their colors from the palette and make their picture as unique as they are. This online coloring game is too cute. The eyes move as your kids color.

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