Words & stories
Color hunt
- Builds: Color words
- 10 min
- Ages 2–4
- Energetic
- No mess
From the house
- A basket or box
How to play
- Ask, “Can you find something red?”
- They run to find it and drop it in the basket.
- Next color: blue, yellow, green.
- Sort everything into color piles at the end.
Fit it to your child
- Easier: Hunt for one color only, and hold up a sample so they can match it.
- Harder: Play I spy: “I spy something blue and soft.” They guess, then it’s their turn to spy.
Words to use
- red
- blue
- yellow
- green
- find
Why it helps
Color names are slow to learn, and a hunt has them hearing and saying each one again and again.