Preschoolers LOVE songs and I believe it is very important to bring music into the preschool classroom or home preschool. I have shared these 10 preschool transitions, but today I am getting more specific and sharing 10 Preschool Songs About Color. At the end of this post is a free printable for the PDF versions of these songs. I hope these songs will be helpful to you!
The Color Song — This song is a great song to start out your preschool day! It also has a lot of words that rhyme, which is an important skill for preschoolers to practice.
Pass the Color — This song is also a game. While you sing the song, sit in a circle and pass the crayon around until the song stops. Once the song stops, have the that child tell you what the color is.
What Color Are You Wearing? — This song helps identify which colors a child is wearing. You can vary the colors with this song and have children transition out after their color is called.
We Love Color! — This is just a fun song for reciting the different color names.
A Color Chorus — This song is used for helping children identify colors. Simply place crayons in front of them and have them pick out the color that you sing about.
Color of Your Clothes — This is another song on identifying the colors a child is wearing. It also gets kids moving and is interactive.
Rainbow Song — A fun song about the rainbow!
Oh, Rainbow! — Another colorful rainbow song!
Five Little Crayons — This is actually a chant and a cute story about 5 crayons!
Color Chant — I really love this chant! Whenever we sing it, it gets stuck in my head! Kids will really get into this one, too!
It was so fun to compile this list of color songs! Which one is your favorite? Do you have another color song to share? Please tell me in the comments!
To download a PDF version of these songs, click here —> Color Songs
If you are looking to save time and make your life easier as a teacher, check out Songs and Rhymes for Transitions Times. This book will share 150 transition ideas for every part of the school day! Read more about it here.
These are wonderful! I loved your Transition songs, and know we will love these too!! Thanks Angela 🙂 Hope you’re feeling well!!
Thank you, Amy!! 🙂 I love your preschool songs and chants, too!
Thank You very much.Really beautiful.
Lovely songs – I will teach them to all our 53 teachers in our 18 centres in under-resourced areas in Gauteng South Africa (will translate them into Zulu, Xhosa and Twana…
Here is another color song that is great for matching rhymes. You just need a box of crayons.
(Sung to the song 5 Little Ducks)
Teacher:
“So many crayons in my box for you,
Red ones, yellow ones, blue ones two
But the one little crayong that I like best
Rhymes with the word….. Burple..”
Children shout: “Purple!!”
Repeat with various colors
Red and yellow and pink and green
Purple and orange and blue
I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow … sing a rainbow too
Listen with your eyes and hear everything you see
I can sing rainbow, sing a rainbow … sing a rainbow too
Hi Dyanne,
when my grand-daughters sang this song they had just learnt at school it made me mad.Why are children being taught the wrong colours in the wrong order for the rainbow? My research showed that this song was written for a film & not intended to teach at all. I couldn’t find a rainbow song I liked to teach my grand-children so I wrote one. I’m happy now they have adopted it in their school. I guess sometimes being mad is a good motivator.
The song link is on this page.
I teach pre-k at a little school at church, and several years ago I wrote a rainbow song, with the colors in the right order. (There’s a similar song above.) In our class we sing, to the tune of “twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”:
“Red, orange, yellow, green, and blue,
Purple’s in the rainbow, too.
God puts rainbows in the sky,
When the rainstorms pass us by.
Red, orange, yellow, green and blue,
Purple’s in the rainbow,too.
THANK YOU, GOD, FOR RAINBOWS!”
Oh I LOVE that! Thank you for sharing, Annie!
It is a cambridge english song.
How cool! I am 39 & can remember this song clear as day as it was our kindergarten song 😊
Hi Angela,
please have a listen to my rainbow song. “The Rainbow Song, peace & love”
All the colour names are the correct ones & in the right order.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvNprVe2-hQ
Many thanks,
Lynda
Great list of songs. Love the site.
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Our four 4 year-old children are taking an enrichment class and were assigned your rainbow song to memorize this week. It is a fun song. Thank you!
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Thanks so much for the great list! My preschoolers will love all of these! The only reason for my comment is that I noticed in the chant/fingerplay 5 little crayons there is not a verse for the color red. It goes right from orange to green. Is that the way this song really goes or was the ‘red finger’ just skipped? Thanks!
I love your website! It’s full of great information, ideas, songs, and other activities! I teach kindergarten students and I love your songs! Is there anyway you could create a link to music files for each song?
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Loved the songs Thank you. I work in a french school in Africa called Arc en Ciel which means rainbow, so these are great.
Hello,I would like to thank you for all these wonderful songs,but what really i need is how to find a suitable music to match along with those songs,do you have any suggestion or idea
Thank you
Omg! I love these! Thanks a million for sharing! I’m definitely using them! <3
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thank you so very much for your Website,Im in school taking up Early Child Hood,and Im praying to open up my very own small Day care . I thank God that I came across your site,
You are a blessing, Thanks May God Bless Cheri Jackson
Sorry, I can’t find the exactly songs. Where can I listen to it?
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I’m sorry I don’t have any audio versions of the song. The songs are sung to familiar tunes (the names of the tunes are on each song page, such as Row, Row, Row Your Boat). Maybe in the future I’ll add some audio versions for y’all!
these are great. we used in homeschool when she was 2. she learned colors so we are on to other things. but great songs to help them learn!
Dear friends,
Are these music books for sale please? If so, would you kindly guide me on how to purchase them and any other item please?
Kind regards,
Sr. Michaela
I’m sorry, but I don’t have any music books for sale at this time.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SONGS!
I AM A NURSERY TEACHER AND MY KIDS LOVE THEM! 🙂
CONGRATULATIONS
Thank you so much for the list of songs…they are great!
I was wondering about Color Chant…is this a rhythmic chant or is there a tune for it?
This is a great resource. I just put a link to this page on my blog!
Thanks! I am an elementary art teacher, and we do rotations with students. I was searching for some fun songs my kindergarteners can sing on the rug while I collect the paintings from the last group and reset the tables. Thanks for making me the list – this will be an awesome start!!
Great! Glad to hear they will be helpful!
How cool are these songs that you have selected, the kids love to sing, so they learn singing quickly about the colors
I’m supposed to teach a lesson in a nursery school. I think I’ve just found my topic for the day.
Thank you, I love these songs and will use them in my Wednesday Wiggler Program in the Library.
Here’s a traditionally older one I have used before:
“”Mary” wore her “red” shirt(or dress, or pants)
Red shirt,red shirt. Mary wore her red shirt all day long.”
The song continues using all the friends in the circle with the different colored clothes they are wearing that day.