My soon to be 3yr old son, keeps confusing green with orange and vice versa...?

My kids have confused colors before too. My son would mix up pink and purple. And my daughter would mix up black and brown. There is a really fun activity you can do with your son and it helps teach colors in a way that's really fun. You use those paper paint swatches to go on a nature walk with your child and find things that match your swatch. If that doesn't make sense, the website for it is http://www.toddler-tips-and-tricks.com/toddler-act...

Use the fruit/veggie thing when you can and every time you get M&Ms or Sprees, always have him eat them by color.

"You can have a green one now."

If he consistently gets it wrong when it is CANDY, it might actually be an eyesight thing. However, blue and yellow are the most commonly confused on color blindness.

As soon as he can grasp it, start playing UNO with him. There's no orange cards, but there are green ones.

The Simon electronic game uses red, yellow, blue, and green in it. That would also strengthen recognition of green and also sequences and tones. It's educational, but don't tell kids that.

Does your son still do this? It's not always an age thing. I am 26 and often confuse orange and green. I see green but the word green comes out. There are plenty of other people that have the exact same problem. Specifically with green and orange.

I'm not colourblind at all but I've always got these two mixed up when I say them. I know that green is green and see it correctly and know it's not orange but when I go to say the colour I will say Orange not green and vice versa. It only ever happens with these two colours, apparently I'm not alone in this. I don't know any name for it but I'd guess it's a verbal aphasia.

He may just be color blind. My son knew all of his colors when he was 3 but by age 4 he was calling orange green and purple blue. My father was color blind so I knew that there was a possibility that my son would be color blind also, but was confused about it because he knew all of his colors at age 3. The doctor told me that the cones in the eye are fine when the child is born, but because they are damaged by the bad gene, they eventually die off.. that explained why he could see his colors, then couldn't. An ophthalmologist is probably not warranted if his eyesight is good otherwise, you pediatrician should be able to tell you if he is color blind or not, although it is a little early for him to be tested.

Hi, I'm a Child Skills Tutor for kids under the age of 5

My advice would be, use fruit or vegetables to encourage him. Like a green apple and an orange. Just say what colour is the GREEN apple? put emphasis on GREEN and ORANGE

Or try a carrot and celery or something along those lines

Hope this helps. :-)

Can he sort by colour? If so, it's not an eyesight thing.

It's _extremely_ common for a 2-3 year old to be confused by the concept that suddenly this object isn't called "car", it's called "red".

Completely normal at his age. An ophthamologist won't even evaluate color-blindness until the kid is 5 or 6, because many kids don't really learn the names for all colors until kindergarten.

There's a tiny chance that he's red-green colorblind, but I certainly wouldn't worry about it yet. Just keep working with him and spending time with him, and, if he can see the difference, he'll learn the words for them soon enough. :)

It could quite simply be an issue of him getting the words mixed up - and that orange things are called green, and green things are called orange,

He might be colour blind . One tenth of boys are, but it is very rare in girls. When you take him to an opthalmologist, mention this.

Colour vision is carried on the X chromesome. Boys get an X from mum, and Y from dad. So if they get a colour blind gene from mum, they do not get a corresponding normal colour gene from dad to counteract it. If your father, or any males on your mother's side of the family are/ were colour blind, then the chances are your son might be.

Girls get an X chromesome from both parents. So if they get a colour blind gene, they will be carriers, but to be colour blind themselves, dad would have it, and m either have it to, or be a carrier.