When I talk about toddlers I usually mean ages 18mths – 3 years. The following activities and games can be adjusted to suit these ages easily, and extended out for preschoolers ie by including more unusual colours.

Colours

For young toddlers I would stick to the primary colours, red, yellow and blue. For the older toddlers I would include green, orange, purple and pink.

Art & Craft

Rainbow Picture – Get a huge piece of paper, plain wallpaper works well, draw a rainbow and paint with correct colours.

Make a Kite – Cut a diamond shape from card, divide into four with a marker and then paint. Tape some ribbon to the bottom.

Colour Collage – Take a piece of card for each of the colours and find things to stick down in the correct colour – paper scraps, wool, sweet wrappers, material cut offs.

Cooking

Iced Biscuits – Colour icing with colouring and ice biscuits or fairy cakes.

Fruit Jellys – Take lemon jelly and add chopped strawberries, or green jelly with peaches. Make a traffic light jelly with red, yellow and green jelly layered in a transparent plastic cup.

Books

Elmer’s Colours by David McKee is one of a series of stories about an elephant. The books are quite original and come in dual language form.

Internet

Teletubbies Colour Story