Recognizing color words is an important skill for young students. Colors are everywhere and the words for the colors are used in texts, stories, and songs over and over again. But it’s not just learning the words that’s important. While our students are learning to differentiate color words they are also learning letter recognition, sight words, and other higher-level sorting skills. These skills are absolutely necessary for the higher-level reading and comprehension that they will run into in higher grades. Like any other skill, making learning fun makes it easier on everyone! I have some other ideas in this earlier blog post.
Games to teach color words
Games make learning just about everything more fun!
- One game that gets kids up and moving around the room is I Spy. You can use this game to teach color words by asking students to read a color word on a flashcard and then find something in the classroom that shows that color. You can simply have them point to or say the object, but you can also have the kids get up and walk to the object.
- Here’s a free online game that approaches teaching sight words in two different ways. First, it shows a color word and then several colored blocks below. Students click on the correctly colored box. In the second part of the game, a colored square is shown with several words underneath it. Kids click on the correct word.
- Of course, classic puzzles are always a hit. There are lots of free sources online for word search puzzles and color by number activities.
Try this free interactive powerpoint game
Use these 3 free Interactive PowerPoint Games in centers and for your more visual learners. Great for memory skills too! There are 2 color memory match games, with and without words. The third game is Read and Color and comes with a worksheet.
You might also like to look at these resources:
- Posters | Playdough Mats | Labels
- Worksheets | Activities for Learning Colors
- Centers | Activities for Learning Colors
- Color Words Bundle
Do you have a favorite way to teach color words? Let us know in the comments.
