Color Sorting Activities for Preschoolers
Is your child starting to learn colors and categorize them? This set of awesome color sorting activities for preschoolers is exactly just what you need!
If you like more preschool activities, check out these Fun Preschool Activities.
We want to maximize their learning while they are having a great time. At their age, getting them involved in activities is important for them to learn. You and your preschoolers will surely enjoy this color-sorting activity as much as we did.
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Color Sorting Activities for Preschoolers
For this set of activities, we used a color mat kit. It is all-inclusive, so all you do is open the package and use it. Let me show you how these tactile activities for preschoolers work.
First, I took the materials out and placed them neatly on a natural wooden tray, as we do for all of our Montessori materials. We love this affordable set of trays that come in different sizes. Once it’s all set up, it will look like the picture below and we are ready to begin.
Recommended Color Books
Here are some coloring books for your preschooler. I have included a water coloring book and a color-by-number book to level up their coloring activities. So bring out your kid’s crayons, pencil crayons, or watercolor because they will be excited to show their creativity!
ABC Coloring Book: Color 100+ Animals, Birds, Vehicles, Fruits, Toys & Alphabets For Boys & GirlsBluey: Big Backyard: A Coloring BookMy First Toddler Coloring Book: Fun with Numbers, Letters, Shapes, Colors, and Animals!YPLUS Paint with Water Books for Toddlers, Watercolor Painting Paper for Kids Ages 1-3, 2-4, Art Craft Gift for Drawing with Brush, AnimalsI Love to Color: Coloring Book for Kids (120 Pages | 8.5 x 11 | Coloring Books for Kids Ages 4-8)Color by Number for Kids: Activity Book
Color Recognition Activity
We will start with a couple of early literacy activities for them. First, we take the color for cards out and have the child place them neatly in two columns in front of them.
One by one, the child will point at the card and say the name of that color. This is easy to do because the colored words correspond to that same color.
The second early literacy activity we did was to go through the alphabet in order and see if any of the color words begin with the letter we just mentioned. If so, we moved that color card to a new column. The point of this activity was to begin to pay attention to beginning letters.
Since black, brown, and blue all begin with the letter “b,” we put them together. I didn’t worry about teaching alphabetical order technicalities at this point (like which one would go first in alphabetical order by looking at second and third letters within the word, etc). That would be an activity you can do with your older kids.
These activities will help them recognize colors and learn the alphabet at the same time.
Color Sorting Activity
This next group of educational activities for preschool is awesome. We used the color mats and the object pictures.
For this activity, the child chooses 4 out of the 10 color mats and places them in front. Then, they take the pile of object cards and can either sort through them by hand or spread them on the table. At this point, the child finds object cards that match any of the color mats and places them in the squares.
Three object cards match each color mat. This was so fun because we would also practice the object names, their colors, and what letter their name begin with.
Once the child is done with all four color mats, they may choose to find the color word card and match it, too, although it isn’t necessary. My child chose to do that on her own.
Put the color cards on the left and the object cards on the right. You can also flip the color cards over. This is way more than a sensory activity for preschoolers. It is an awesome early literacy way to practice penmanship, dexterity, eye-hand coordination, and fine motor skills which are quite important for this age.
The child will now use the color cards to place on top of the color blob on the color card (below the paintbrush). Discuss the color name, the color of the word, and the letter it begins with.
Recommended Color Activity Kits
Here are other fun color sorting and coloring activity kits for your little ones. They can also learn shapes and counting, they can have fun doing rock and dot coloring. Your shelves might be full of your child’s artwork with these!
Jar Melo Mosaic & Diamond Painting, 8PCS Animal Sticker by Number Crafts Kit Paint by StickerJar Melo Washable Dot Markers, 6 Colors Dot Paints with 108 PDF & 10 Physical Activity PapersNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Rock Painting Kit – Arts and Crafts Kit for Kids, Paint & DecorateTINOTEEN Button Art Toy for Toddlers,Toddler Activities Crafts Color Matching Early Learning Educational Mosaic Pegboard 50 Buttons and 18 PicturesKizfarm Wooden Montessori Baby Toys, 8-in-1 Wooden Play Kit Includes Object Permanent Box, Coin Box, Carrot Harvest, Shape Sorting & Stacking – Christmas Birthday Gift for Boys Girls ToddlersGAMENOTE Magnetic Color and Number Maze – Montessori Fine Motor Skills Toys for Boys Girls 3 4 5 Years Old, Wooden Color Matching Learning Counting Toddler Puzzle Board
Tracing Word Colors Activity
For this next activity, your kids will use dry-erase crayons or dry-erase markers to practice writing the color words on the lines on the color mats.
They can use the matching color when they write if they choose to. For example, use the green dry-erase crayon to write the word green. Once all four color cards are done, the child will wipe them clean and put the color cards and mats to the side.
Now your child will choose four more cards to work on. Continue until all color mats have been used. If the child is very young, you may decide to do a few color mats per session.
My four-year-old managed to do all 10 mats easily without a problem. Just observe and determine how much is too much and continue at another time.
Fun Color Activities To Try
If you love doing these, you might also like to check out these other fun color activities that you can do with your kid:
- Colorful Rainbow Activities for Kids
- Color Matching with Wooden Blocks
- Fine Motor Skills for Preschoolers
- Colors with Spielgaben
- Colors Worksheets
- Montessori Sensorial Color Activities for Kids by Natural Homeschool
- Hands-On Activities for Learning Colors by Homeschool Preschool
- Button Sorting: Color & Shape by 3 Dinosaurs
Aren’t these such fun learning activities for preschool? Color sorting skills for kids are great so try these activities for them to be even better. Kids always like to try new things as long as they’re having fun while studying it!