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FullName: Me Email: abc@aol date:: 4/9/03 Area: Colors Idea: To practice learning colors, I made a huge rainbow about five feet long and painted on purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red stripes. I put it on the floor in our play area and laid out buttons, stickers, small scraps of paper, and pipe cleaners of every color in bowls. Each child got a bowl and they had to match their colored objects with the colors on the rainbow. It was a very good activity for the three and four olds.
ideaFor playing red light green light, I cut out 2 circles about 12" in diameter, one red and one green. I laminated them and then punched 2 holes on the top of each circle. I then tied them together using yarn like a "sandwich board". The child who is "it" wears the red and green circles, with the red circle on front, the green on back. It's a good visual reminder for the game and works on colors too.
11-4-00This is a game we play with our preschoolers: Colors, Give me Colors! We just chant the title and point to something of one color and have the children tell us what color it is. They love it.
10-6-00This is a fun game to help kids learn colors and shapes. Draw and color shapes on paper plates. Put the plates in a circle with the kids on the outside, have one child stand in the middle and point to one as you call it out or walk over to it . Let the other kids participate by taking turns going in the circle calling out one. The school age kids even like this game. For them you name each one real fast and see how fast they can point to it. This works with numbers and letters also, just don't use too many plates at a time.
10-2-00At circle time I have a bag with different shaped items from around the room. Each child gets a turn to pull something out and try and guess what shape it is, this helps them realize shapes are in the environment and not just flat pieces of paper. Also you can start with an empty bag and ask them to go look around the room and find something shaped like a circle, etc. You can then put everything in the bag, close it and see if they can recall what their friends put in. have them take the items back to the correct area in the classroom when they are done.
10-2-00During Circle when I do my colors unit I ask my children to find something of the color in our room. This is really simple but they like searching and then bringing it back to Circle to share.
10-2-00Using the Twister mat (you could make one if you don't have the twister game) I have my children put there hands on a red. Then put a foot on yellow, etc, etc. I only do one body part at a time and the kids love to do it. I will say that I only have 10 kids so with a larger group this might be difficult.
9-17-00For my color lessons I have "Scavenger Hunts". After I introduce the new color to the class I give them a certain amount of time (using my timer) to find things of that color. When the timer goes off, all the children sit down in the circle and we all go over our "color" objects. We had a blast... and they reinforced their color recognition.
9-10-00Hot glue crayons in a pattern to a strip of tag board (or sentence strips). Then provide a second set of crayons and let the children try to match the pattern.
5-18-00When teaching two's I filled the sensory table with objects of the color we were studying. Not only did we learn a color, but there vocabulary was increased and large and small motor skills were used as they explored the materials.
Date: 1-31-00"Color Dig" Practice color matching skills with this activity. Collect two empty egg cartons and 24 small rocks that fit in the eggcups. Choose 12 colors you'd like students to learn. Paint two rocks and two sections of the egg carton with each of the colors. When the rocks have dried, hide them in you sand table. Have students go on a color dig to hunt for rocks and match them to the correct sections of the egg carton.
Date: 11-1-98Color Hokey Pokey - Have colored circle stickers in four colors. Every child gets a sticker on each hand and each foot (they should have one of each color). Play the Hokey Pokey singing, "Put your red dot in, put your red dot out....etc.
Date: 11-1-98Color Dance - Put on music and have the children dance. Stop the music and call out a color(or have a child pull a color swatch from a bag). Anyone wearing that color sits down. Keep going until everyone is seated. Then reverse the game - call out a color and anyone wearing that color gets to start dancing.
Date: 11-1-98Color discovery: Give each child a piece of colored cellophane or colored acetate in either red, blue or yellow. Put on music and have the children dance. When the music stops, they must find a partner, put their colors together (it may help to hold them up to the light) and tell everyone what new color they have made. 10-22-98 Name: Amber 10-21-98 Name: Cheryl
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