Color Each Picture Its Real Color

The graduation page for the color series. After a page each for red, blue, yellow, green, orange and pink, this sheet mixes one picture from each family — and this time nothing on the page says which color to use.

Choosing the color is the whole exercise. The child has to recall that apples are red, whales are blue and flamingos are pink, then find the matching crayon among six. That recall-and-select loop is a genuinely harder task than anything on the single-color pages.

If a picture stalls, resist naming the color; ask "what color is a frog, really?" instead. The answer coming from the child is the point of the page.