Color Recognition Activity - Create a Color Collage

Create a colorful rainbow of collages to reinforce your preschooler’s color recognition skills. Your preschoolers’ creative juices will flow as they search through magazines to find representations of their favorite color, cut out pictures and glue them to construction paper to create a unique collage of colors. Not only will creating a color collage help your preschooler with color recognition skills, but the cutting process is a great way to work on hand to eye coordination, motor skills and scissor control.

What You Will Need

Magazines

Kid’s Safety Scissors

Glue

Piece of Construction Paper

What to Do

Step 1:

Have your preschooler flip through the pages of the magazine and identify blue objects or whatever single color your preschooler chooses.

Step 2:

After your preschooler identifies a blue object or an object of his/her chosen color, have him/her cut it out. Younger preschoolers may need assistance with cutting.

Step 3:

Once all of the pictures have been cut out, have your preschooler glue them to a piece of construction paper.

Step 4:

Hang your completed color collage on the wall or refrigerator so your preschooler can look at it often, reinforcing his/her color recognition skills.

More Color Collage Activities

*Make a collage for each color of the rainbow. Repeat steps 1 through 4, but this time have your preschooler search for a different color. Make color collages for blue, red, green, orange, yellow, pink and purple too!

*Running out of fridge space to hang your preschooler’s color collage. Staple each color collage together to construct a unique book of colors that your preschooler can read through over and over again to reinforce his/her color recognition skills.

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