Colours Name in English and Hindi with pictures
12 words · tap 🔊 to hear each one.
| Picture | English | Hindi | Say it | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red | लाल | Laal | ||
| Yellow | पीला | Peela | ||
| Blue | नीला | Neela | ||
| Green | हरा | Hara | ||
| Orange | नारंगी | Naarangi | ||
| Purple | बैंगनी | Baingani | ||
| Pink | गुलाबी | Gulaabi | ||
| Brown | भूरा | Bhoora | ||
| Black | काला | Kaala | ||
| White | सफ़ेद | Safed | ||
| Grey | स्लेटी | Sleti | ||
| Sky Blue | आसमानी | Aasmaani |
This page teaches colours name in Hindi and English with pictures. Your child taps a colour and hears "Red, लाल", "Yellow, पीला" in clear audio, then finds the colours in a game. There are 12 colours: red, yellow, blue, green, orange, purple, pink, brown, black, white, grey and sky blue. The word list above shows every colour with its Hindi name, English name, pronunciation and a 🔊 button, so it doubles as a colors for kids chart.
What your child learns about colours, by age
Colours feel easy to grown-ups, but they are surprisingly hard for toddlers. A colour is not a thing you can hold; it is a property of many things. That is why a child may call every colour "blue" for months and then, suddenly, get them all. India's NCF for the Foundational Stage expects children aged 3-4 to name the primary colours (red, blue, yellow) and common colours like black, white and brown, and older children to predict mixed colours.
| Age | What is realistic | Try on this page |
|---|---|---|
| 2-3 years | Matches same colours; knows 1 colour name by about 30 months | Listen, then Memory with 3 pairs |
| 3-4 years (nursery) | Names red, blue, yellow, green; sorts toys by colour | Find it with 2-3 choices |
| 4-5 years (LKG) | Names about 8-10 colours, including pink, orange, brown, black and white | Find it with 3 choices; colour hunt at home |
| 5-6 years (UKG, class 1) | Names all 12, knows light and dark shades, predicts colour mixing | Memory with 8 pairs; the mixing table below |
How to use this colours game
Listen
Every colour tile speaks its name. Let a toddler tap around freely; there is nothing to get right or wrong.
Find it
Golu, our glass marble friend, asks "Where is green?" and shows big colour choices. If your child taps another colour, the game never says "wrong". It names the colour they chose, then the right answer glows, and on a third try Golu points to it. Each finished game drops a marble into the Goli Jar. Tap the jar and count the marbles together.
Memory
Colour cards turn face down and your child looks for pairs. Two year olds get 3 pairs; 5-6 year olds get 8.
The अ+A button changes the language order: Hindi then English, English then Hindi, Hindi only or English only. Settings (behind a grown-up check) let you set your child's age and turn on calm motion, calm sound, captions, fewer choices or high contrast.
Colours name in Hindi and English with everyday examples
A child remembers पीला better when it is tied to a banana. Here are the 12 colours with the example this page uses and one more from an Indian home. This makes a handy colours name list for nursery, LKG, UKG and class 1.
| English | Hindi | Example on this page | Try finding |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red | लाल (laal) | Apple | Tomato, sindoor |
| Yellow | पीला (peela) | Banana | Haldi, marigold |
| Blue | नीला (neela) | Peacock's neck | A school uniform, the sea |
| Green | हरा (hara) | Parrot | Chillies, peas, leaves |
| Orange | नारंगी (naarangi) | Orange fruit | Carrot, the top band of the flag |
| Purple | बैंगनी (baingani) | Brinjal | Jamun, grapes |
| Pink | गुलाबी (gulaabi) | Lotus | Rose, strawberry milk |
| Brown | भूरा (bhoora) | Coconut | Chapati, a wooden chair |
| Black | काला (kaala) | Crow | Hair, a tawa |
| White | सफ़ेद (safed) | Milk | Rice, clouds |
| Grey | स्लेटी (sleti) | Elephant | A pigeon, a rain cloud |
| Sky blue | आसमानी (aasmaani) | Sky | A water bottle |
The first 10 colours name in the table are the ones most schools ask for; all 12 together cover what a UKG or class 1 child needs. For colours name 20, add light green, dark blue, gold (सुनहरा), silver (चाँदी), maroon, cream and so on as your child grows, but only after the first ten feel easy.
Colours name kaise likhate hain? In English, write the word under a coloured dot: red, blue, green. In Hindi, रंगों के नाम हिंदी में are written the same way: लाल, नीला, हरा. If your child is learning रंगों के नाम इंग्लिश में, say the Hindi word first and then the English one, which is exactly what the Hindi-then-English setting does.
How to teach colours name to kids in 5-10 minutes a day
How to introduce colors to toddlers? Pick one colour for a whole week and live in it. Red week means red socks, red tomatoes, red car, red bindi, and saying "red, लाल" each time. Then add a second colour and play "which one is red?" with two objects. That is also how you introduce colours to preschoolers: few at a time, with real things.
- Kitchen sort. Put out green peas, yellow dal and red rajma in small bowls. Your child sorts a mixed spoonful into the right bowls.
- Colour of the day. At breakfast, choose a colour. Everyone points to that colour whenever they see it, all day.
- Market game. At the fruit stall, ask "Can you find something purple?" Brinjal, grapes and jamun are all fair answers.
- Park walk. Collect one green leaf, one brown stick, one yellow flower. Lay them on a white paper at home and name them.
- Clothes line. When folding laundry, your child makes a pile of every blue thing.
For how to teach colors to kids in English when you speak Hindi at home, keep the Hindi word and add the English one after it. Children in bilingual homes learn both, and nobody gets confused. Pair colours with shapes too ("a red circle, a yellow star") on our shapes name for kids page, since shapes and colors together are the classic first maths pair.
Rainbow colours and colour mixing for kids
How to learn rainbow colours for kids? The rainbow has seven: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. In Hindi, many children learn it as बैं नी आ ह पी ना ला (बैंगनी, नीला, आसमानी, हरा, पीला, नारंगी, लाल), read from violet to red. For a young child, just point at a real rainbow after rain, or at the colours a glass of water throws on the wall in the sun.
A 5 year old is ready for this simple colour mixing for kids chart. Try it with poster paint or with food colour in water.
| Mix | You get | Hindi |
|---|---|---|
| Blue + yellow | Green | नीला + पीला = हरा |
| Red + yellow | Orange | लाल + पीला = नारंगी |
| Red + blue | Purple | लाल + नीला = बैंगनी |
| Red + white | Pink | लाल + सफ़ेद = गुलाबी |
| Black + white | Grey | काला + सफ़ेद = स्लेटी |
Colours for kids drawing, painting and worksheets
Painting is the most natural colours name activity for kids. Give only two or three colours at a time so the page does not turn brown, and name each colour as your child uses it. Our colouring pages for kids let your child tap a colour and fill a picture, which is an easy start for 2 and 3 year olds before crayons.
There is no PDF download on this site. For a colors for kids worksheet, print this page from your browser: the word list prints as a clean colours chart with pictures and Hindi and English names. Cut out the tiles to make colors for kids flashcards, or cover one language and ask your child to say it.
Colours in Indian festivals and around the world
India is a wonderful place to learn colours. Holi is the obvious one: before you play, name each gulal colour together, and choose skin-safe colours for kids. Diwali brings yellow diyas and colourful rangoli, Pongal and Onam bring flower carpets, and the national flag teaches saffron, white and green with a navy blue wheel. Our flowers name in Hindi and fruits name in Hindi and English pages are full of colour too. Around the world, children learn the same basic colours first; only the spelling changes, "colours" in India and the UK and "colors" in the US.
Gentle tips for every child
- Praise the looking. "You found the green one by looking carefully" builds patience.
- If your child keeps mixing up blue and green, that is normal until about 4. Put the two side by side often and name them.
- If your child gets frustrated, switch to Listen, or stop and sort real toys by colour instead.
- Speech delay: accept pointing and let your child hand you "the red one". Say the word for them. Talk to your paediatrician if you are worried.
- Autism: many autistic children enjoy sorting by colour. Use calm sound, fewer choices and the same short routine each day.
- Colour vision: if your child reliably confuses red and green after age 5, mention it at the next eye check. It is common in boys and easy to work around.
About screens: children under 2 learn colours far better from a grown-up and real objects than from any screen. For ages 2 to 5, WHO and the Indian Academy of Paediatrics suggest up to an hour a day, with you playing alongside. A 5-10 minute round here, then a colour hunt in the room, is plenty.
