Spring color printables for preschool that make learning colors bloom! These 8 spring color activities are perfect for your preschool classroom and a great fit for your spring theme or spring learning centers.

Flowers, kites, umbrellas, rain boots and birds give children plenty of color practice all season long. Kids clip, sort, spin, match, squish play dough and make their own bird mini book while they work on color recognition, fine motor skills, beginning writing skills, sorting and classification skills and many other preschool skills.

With these spring color printables, you get

• 8 spring color activities in one pack
• Practice with 12 colors, including primary and secondary colors
• Color recognition, sorting and matching games
• Fine motor work with clip cards, spinners and play dough
• Early literacy practice with color words in a mini book

Print, laminate and your spring color centers are ready to go!

What's Included

• Spring Color Clip Cards (Flowers): Color clip cards with a spring flower theme.
• Kite-Themed Spring Color Clip Cards: A second set of clip cards with a kite theme.
• Spring Colors Sorting Mats (Primary Colors): Sort spring pictures into primary color groups.
• Spring Colors Sorting Mats (Secondary Colors): Sort spring pictures into secondary color groups. For each sorting activity, a second sorting mat is included without color prompting for more advanced students.
• Spring Colors Matching Game (Umbrellas and Rain Boots): A color matching game with umbrellas and rain boots.
• Colors Spin & Cover Matching Games for Spring: Spinner games for matching and covering colors.
• Spring Colors Play Dough Mats (Flowers): Use the matching color of play dough to fill or decorate each flower.
• Birds Mini Book about Spring Colors: Children color the birds to match the words on each page and trace the color words.

12 Colors Included

• Red
• Blue
• Yellow
• Orange
• Green
• Purple
• Pink
• Brown
• Gray
• Black
• White
• Light Blue

Why Teachers Love It

• A different activity for each day: Eight activities keep color practice fresh through your whole spring unit.
• Self-checking clip cards: Put a colored dot on the back by each correct answer so children can check their own work.
• Built-in levels: Sorting mats with and without color prompts make it easy to raise the challenge.
• Easy to adjust: Make the matching game simple or more difficult by changing the number of cards you use.
• Math, literacy and fine motor in one pack: Children sort and classify, trace color words and build hand strength along the way.
• Made to last: Laminated activities can be used many times over the course of multiple years.

Skills Students Practice

Primary Academic Skills

• Color recognition: Every activity asks children to find, name or match colors.
• Sorting and classification: Sorting mats ask children to group spring pictures by primary and secondary colors.
• Matching: The umbrella and rain boot matching game and the spin and cover games build color matching skills.
• Fine motor skills: Clipping, spinning, coloring and play dough play build hand strength and control.
• Beginning writing skills: Tracing color words in the bird mini book builds early writing control.
• Early literacy: Reading the color words in the mini book connects each color to its printed word.

Secondary Life & Learning Skills

• Following directions
• Taking turns
• Maintaining attention
• Communicating choices
• Working independently
• Building confidence

How to Use It

Step 1: Print the color activities and then cut apart any pieces that need it. We suggest that you laminate the activities so the printables can be used many times over the course of multiple years (without little hands accidentally damaging them).

Step 2: Introduce one activity at a time. To make the clip cards self-checking, put a colored dot on the back by each correct answer. Choose the sorting mats with or without color prompting for each child.

Step 3: Set the activities out in your math centers or small groups. Select the colors you want for the spring bird mini book and have children color the birds to match the words on each page and trace the color words.

Easy Differentiation

Young children are at many different places with colors. These spring activities make it easy to meet each child right where they are.

For Children Who Need More Support

• Start with the sorting mats that show color prompts
• Use fewer cards in the umbrella and rain boot matching game
• Work with two or three colors at a time
• Name each color aloud together before children sort or clip

For On-Level Practice

• Use the flower and kite clip cards in centers
• Sort pictures into primary and secondary color groups
• Play the spin and cover games with a partner

For an Extra Challenge

• Use the second sorting mats without color prompting
• Play the matching game with all of the cards
• Trace and read every color word in the bird mini book
• Have children name other spring things that are the same color

For Speech, OT, ELL or Special Education Support

• Practice color words and spring vocabulary such as flower, kite, umbrella and rain boot
• Use clip cards and play dough mats to build pinching and hand strength
• Let children point to their answer if speaking is hard
• Reduce the number of choices and give extra processing time

Perfect For

• Preschool and pre-K math centers
• Spring theme units
• Small group instruction
• One-on-one practice
• Speech therapy and ELL groups
• Occupational therapy sessions
• Special education classrooms
• Homeschool

Standards

These spring color activities support the 2022 Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines and Virginia's Early Learning and Development Standards (2021), and they build toward kindergarten skills in Common Core, the TEKS and the Virginia Math SOL (2023):

Common Core State Standards

• CCSS K.MD.B.3: Classify objects into categories and count how many are in each. Children sort spring pictures by color and count each group.
• CCSS L.K.5.a: Sort common objects into categories to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.

Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines

• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.V.E.1: Sort objects that are the same and different, such as pictures on the spring color sorting mats.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.II.D.1: Use a wide variety of words to label and describe, including color words.
• Texas Pre-K Guidelines PK4.IX.B.1: Show control in tasks that take small-muscle strength, such as squeezing clothespins and shaping play dough.

Texas TEKS

• TEKS Math K.8.A: Collect, sort and organize objects into two or three categories, such as the color columns on a sorting mat.
• TEKS ELAR K.3.C: Identify and use words that name categories such as colors.

Virginia Early Learning and Development Standards

• Virginia ELDS CD3.4: Sort and classify pictures by color.
• Virginia ELDS HPD3.2: Develop small muscle control while clipping, coloring and working with play dough.
• Virginia ELDS CLLD3.3: Handle writing tools while tracing color words in the bird mini book.

Virginia SOL

• VA SOL Math K.PS.1.a: Sort and classify objects by one attribute, such as color.

Grab the Spring Color Printables and have 8 ready-to-go preschool color activities for your spring centers. Print, laminate and watch your little learners clip, sort, match and trace their way to strong color skills. Add it to your cart today!

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