Books about colour for toddlers & preschoolers
Or I was just given the wrong information.
In any case, here are some of my picks for books about colour:
I LOVE this one! In this book, a baby bear is sleeping in his dark den with his mama when spring arrives. Suddenly Baby Bear is introduced to a new world of spring colours. With the sun glowing in his cave baby bear sees yellow, he sees the blue of the jays and the orange of the butterflies tickling his nose.
What did we learn?
With each page, George loves to yell out the new colour baby bear sees and then looks to find something the same colour in our house. I found this particular book the best for George in getting his colours correct.
Why I like it:
Gently, lyrical language introducing colour and nature. Plus the ending when Baby Bear snuggles back into his mummy and falls asleep: Baby Bear sees black. So sweet.
In this bright and simple book, the androgenous protagonist explores all the colours in the rainbow but loves the colour yellow best. Each page is devoted to one colour so it’s easy for a toddler or preschooler to see the separate colours. I think when learning colours it’s a tough to understand when there are other colours in the way.
What did we learn?
Then the little guy/gal goes back to saying their favorite colour is yellow. Again, it’s hard concept to ask your child ‘what is your favorite?’ when they don’t know what that means yet. This book asks: “What color do you love most? Which color could you eat on toast?” which my toddler giggled at and yelled ‘blue’. It hadn’t dawned on me to phrase ‘favorite’ in different ways so that George could understand what I was asking him.
Why I like it:
A great of way of showcasing colour and asking kids to choose what colour they like best in a simplistic and silly way.
This is a fun book showing how mixing primary colours together creates new colours. White Rabbit finds three pots: red, yellow and blue. By taking dips in each colour on their own and then mixing two, he goes from white to red to orange to purple to brown. George wanted to read it again and again and each time was thrilled that the rabbit could become a whole new colour after taking a second colour dip.
What did we learn?
We learned that when mixed, primary colours become new colours.
Why I like it:
For the above stated reason. Without having to actually get messy (and let’s face it: when kids mix paint colours it always turns into that gross brown non-colour colour), this book explains how putting two colours together creates a new colour.
This is a really sweet little book about a girl named Esther and her quest to see a rainbow after spotting one briefly under her chair. She may not see a rainbow again, but she spots all the colours of the rainbow in various things & places: her mother’s opal ring, the blue of the pool, the green of the traffic light.
What did we learn?
We not only learned about the colours of the rainbow and the many ways and places we can find them, but we also learn about the days of the week.
Why I like it:
I absolutely adore this story because of the way Kane explores colour. She looks for colour in the way you feel or the way something smells – which is exactly what colour is. “She smelled green in mint, crushed between her fingertips . . .” or “She tasted yellow in the pears warm from the sun . . .” As soon as I read that aloud to my kids, I can actually taste warm pears and yes, they taste yellow!
There are a plethora of books about colour out there for you to read but hopefully these four will get your started.
Happy Reading,
Curious in Wonderland
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