🔢 Playgroup · Numbers & shapes · Ages 2–3 · about 2 weeks Dates: to

Colours Everywhere

Goal: Match things of the same colour and start naming red, blue, yellow and green.

For parents: Matching comes before naming. If your child can put all the red blocks together but calls them 'blue', they are right on track.

Do together

  1. Colour hunt basket

    You need: A basket or bag

    An adult chooses a few safe, large objects of one colour, such as whole socks and unbreakable cups. Find them together and name the colour with each object. Leave other household items where they are.

  2. Sorting bowls

    You need: Two unbreakable bowls, whole coloured socks and large unbreakable cups

    Stay beside your child. Put an object of each colour beside a bowl and help them group the remaining objects by colour. Choose pieces too large to fit in the mouth. Stop if they begin mouthing them.

  3. Colour of the day

    You need: Clothes and food you already have

    Choose a colour each morning: wear something that colour, find a fruit or vegetable that colour, and look for it on the way to the shop.

Talk about it

  • Can you find something the same colour as this?
  • What colour is a banana? The sky? Grass?
  • Which colour do you like best?

Words to use

  • red
  • blue
  • yellow
  • green
  • same
  • different

Play (optional)

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Every game is free for every family until 20 November 2026.

Your child can…

Ticks are saved on this device only. Move on when most are ticked.

on one A4 page, with space to write

Tick each one when you see it, and write the date. Move on when most are ticked.

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