Find the Colour asks for a colour by name and shows four blobs of paint to choose from. It is one of the simplest games on the site, and a good first one for the very young.
What your child is learning
Colour names seem to come naturally, but they take longer than most parents expect. A child has to grasp that "red" is not a thing but a quality that many different things share. The apple is red, the bus is red, and so is that blob.
Ten colours are used: red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, pink, brown, black and white.
How to help
Read the instruction aloud. The colour word is written in yellow chalk whatever colour it names, so that the answer cannot be read off the writing.
Name the colours your child taps, right or wrong. "That one is orange. We are looking for red."
Start with what they know. Most children are sure of red, blue and yellow first. Pink and purple, and orange and red, are often confused for longer.
Link colours to familiar things: yellow like a banana, green like grass.
If colours seem unusually hard
Most children can match colours long before they can name them, so slow naming at three or four is not a worry.
Some children, more often boys, have difficulty telling certain colours apart, usually red from green or brown. If your child is confident with shapes and letters but regularly mixes up particular colours well past the age of five, it may be worth mentioning to a health visitor, doctor or optician.
Taking it further
Sort toys or buttons by colour. Play "find me something blue" around the room.
Among HTML5 games for under-fives, this one needs the least explaining.