Here’s a collection of 20 simple, fun and playful colour themed activities for preschoolers to enjoy! 
From learning about colour mixing to going on a scavenger hunt for coloured objects, this collection of ideas covers lots of different activity types and use of materials. Some can be pulled out and set up immediately with no planning required and most require very simple items from around the home, so they’re all easy to do! Choose your favourites to try this week and pin the rest for future reference.
Exploring Coloured Lights in the Dark
Edible Fingerpaints Sensory Play
Whisking Coloured Sensory Soap
Writing and Drawing in Coloured Salt
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You always share so many meaningful and fun ideas for the children. What an awesome resource! Thank you. 🙂
Thank you Mary Catherine! What a lovely comment x
What great ideas and beautiful photos. What is being used in the first picture? I can’t tell if it’s paint or also something else.
Many thanks!
It’s ordinary paints Lisa! I will add a link to that post as that was lots of fun too!
These are lovely ideas and there are some things here that i have yet to try.. Love the egg carton sorting and also the color mixing…just last week when my 2 1/2 yr old mixed two colors…blue and yellow – he got an interesting green…but he was most perplexed and asked me where the blue had gone.
Also love your other ideas – am planning to try the play dough with jello tomorrow! Sounds lovely!
Isn’t colour mixing magical the first ever time! Lovely Gauri
I love what you’ve done with the color matching. It lets children see there many subtle shades of those common color names they first learned.
Gwynn
The Creativity Institute
We did the egg carton colour sorting this afternoon and it was a hit! Big sister had fun painting the egg carton and gathering small toys/objects from around the house. When little brother woke up from his nap, she had a great time showing him how to play. We’ll definitely be using this one again.
Wow i’m most definitely going to use this to become a lot closer as a father to my child, He’s not old enough for sports yet he’s two so this is going to help me create a good strong bond before creating the next Lionel Messi in the future. Well done and thank you ever so much! xx
heyyy, just saw the wonderful things u did , wod love 2 try some of them at my school
I love the way you’ve gotten really out of the box with colored shadows. It opens kids’ imaginations to a whole new medium. Great ideas!
Gwynn
The Creativity Institute