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12 books about colors for little kids

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I always love using books to teach concepts to my students. I think they are a great visual to help students whom are struggling to grasp whatever is being taught. I LOVE these books about colors. When I am teaching colors to my students at the beginning of the school year, I always start each lesson with one of these books. My students love the books too!  Here are my favorite color books. To see all book lists, click here.I LOVE these books about colors. When I am teaching colors to my students at the beginning of the school year, I always start each lesson with one of these books. My students love them and so do I. Here are my favorite color books.

Mix It Up by Hurve Tullet

I LOVE these books about colors. When I am teaching colors to my students at the beginning of the school year, I always start each lesson with one of these books. My students love them and so do I. Here are my favorite color books.

Simply follow the artist’s instructions and a world of color will appear.

Dog’s Colorful Day: A Messy Story about Colors and Counting by Emma Dodd

I LOVE these books about colors. When I am teaching colors to my students at the beginning of the school year, I always start each lesson with one of these books. My students love them and so do I. Here are my favorite color books.

Wherever Dog goes he runs into colors, from jam to paint to ice-cream!

White Rabbit’s Color Book by Alan Barker

I LOVE these books about colors. When I am teaching colors to my students at the beginning of the school year, I always start each lesson with one of these books. My students love them and so do I. Here are my favorite color books.

Join this inquisitive bunny on a journey about colors and how they mix.

Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh

I LOVE these books about colors. When I am teaching colors to my students at the beginning of the school year, I always start each lesson with one of these books. My students love them and so do I. Here are my favorite color books.

A lesson in colors and counting through the eyes of a charming group of mice.

A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni

I LOVE these books about colors. When I am teaching colors to my students at the beginning of the school year, I always start each lesson with one of these books. My students love them and so do I. Here are my favorite color books.

Every animal has a color of its own…except the chameleon.  A story of colors and friendship.

Monsters Love Colors by Mike Austin

I LOVE these books about colors. When I am teaching colors to my students at the beginning of the school year, I always start each lesson with one of these books. My students love them and so do I. Here are my favorite color books.

A joyful, dance themed exploration of colors, mixing, and shades.

Color Dance by Anna Jonas 

I LOVE these books about colors. When I am teaching colors to my students at the beginning of the school year, I always start each lesson with one of these books. My students love them and so do I. Here are my favorite color books.

A joyful, dance themed exploration of colors, mixing, and shades.

A Day with No Crayons by Elizabeth Rusch

I LOVE these books about colors. When I am teaching colors to my students at the beginning of the school year, I always start each lesson with one of these books. My students love them and so do I. Here are my favorite color books.

When Liza’s crayons are taken away she discovers color and art in the world around her.

Cat’s Colors by Jane Cabrera

I LOVE these books about colors. When I am teaching colors to my students at the beginning of the school year, I always start each lesson with one of these books. My students love them and so do I. Here are my favorite color books.

Join this charming kitten on a hunt for its favorite color.

How Do Dinosaurs Learn Their Colors by Jane Yolen

I LOVE these books about colors. When I am teaching colors to my students at the beginning of the school year, I always start each lesson with one of these books. My students love them and so do I. Here are my favorite color books.

Learn the colors of the rainbow in this fun dinosaur board book.

Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni

I LOVE these books about colors. When I am teaching colors to my students at the beginning of the school year, I always start each lesson with one of these books. My students love them and so do I. Here are my favorite color books.

Come along with little blue and little yellow as they share wonderful, colorful adventures.

Color by Ruth Heller

I LOVE these books about colors. When I am teaching colors to my students at the beginning of the school year, I always start each lesson with one of these books. My students love them and so do I. Here are my favorite color books.

Heller’s book takes readers through each step of producing artwork – from pictures to a printed page.

Do you have any favorite color books that are not on this list?

Are you looking for more ideas, activities, and printables about color to do at home or in the classroom? If so click here.

 

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My name is Jennifer. I'm a former teacher turned stay at home mom who has continued her passion for making learning resources for the littlest of learners.

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