Tonight, I added food coloring to several glasses. I put the glasses of colored water on a cookie sheet with an eye dropper, liquid syringe, spoons, etc. Having everything on a cookie sheet kept the mess down to nothing. I put the tray next to the sink so I could bathe him while he played.

At first, the eyedropper was his favorite. But, once he discovered the liquid syringe, it was all over. I had also cut up scraps of white rags so that he could do a little tie-dye thing, but he wasn’t into it.

As he played, we talked about the colors and what happened when you mixed colors together. Towards the end, he was explaining what he was doing out loud. “Some blue…Some red…”

Food coloring…$.99
Eye dropper…Free
A toddler happily learning his colors in the bath…Priceless

Talk about cheap toddler educational toys…

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Help your toddler practice their colors with a color scavenger hunt.

How to do this Toddler Activity…

1. Print out the free color scavenger hunt cards on to heavy paper.
2. Cut out the cards.
3. Make sure that there is something in the child’s environment for each color. If, for example, you do not see something purple, either find something and place it in the room or remove the card.
4. Explain the activity to your toddler. “Are you ready for a color scavenger hunt? I am going to show you a card with a color. Let’s see if we can find something in this room that is that color!”
5. Show your toddler a card and say the color as they look around the room. “Can you find something that is blue? I see something in that corner that is blue.”

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