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2-20-01I teach 2's and 3's. Every month in the 2's class we do a color. This month is purple. I turn my room into Purpleville. I cover the door in purple, and put up a sign saying "Welcome to Purpleville". I hang up purple streamers, purple balloons and purple borders on the bulletin boards. The children make lots of purple pictures such as collages, finger-paint pictures and purple painting on the easels to add more purple to purpleville. By the middle of the month everything is coming up purple. The children love it and it is very catchy.
1-13-01My classes make a "color" book for each color of our rainbow. We simply call it "Our red book", or "Our blue book." etc. When doing a particular color, I provide only that color to draw on white paper what their favorite thing is for that color. It is fun to gather markers, crayons,. colored pencils, paint markers, etc. to add dimension to the book. I then gather the papers and staple them together with the same color of construction paper for the cover. We then read the book at circle time. The kids always love it.
1-13-01I work with young toddlers, and I have found that they like to get messy. We were talking about colors, they weren't many yellow things in our room, so I made yellow Jell-O and let them play with it (and eat it!) in the sensory table, they loved it!
10-16-00Bring something familiar into your classroom to teach colors...Sesame Street characters. Cut paper plates into the shapes of Bert's, Ernie's, Elmo's heads, etc. and have them finger paint with appropriate color. (Can also mix colors to show red + yellow = orange). Pre-cut facial features and glue when dry. Very easy & very popular with kids. Can also use with multicultural theme "Friends come in many different colors!"
9-15-00Take some shaving cream and put it in a bag. Then put paint in it and seal it up. Let the child mix up the colors with the shaving cream and they can see how it feels.
9-11-00When studying colors, have the children bring in an item from home of that color. For example, on "red" day, a child can bring in a red puzzle piece. Then post the items on a large paper to make a class collage. The items should be small, lightweight, and invaluable. This activity extends their learning into the home and also gets their parents involved.
7-15-00Learning colors is made more meaningful and fun, this way: younger children (3 yr. olds) easily learn colors by wearing them. We point out where the color is on their clothing, shirt, button, barrette, etc. The older children enjoy learning and reinforcing colors by eating them. Each day is a different color and each child is to bring in a food of that color to be shared with the class.
6-15-00Take the wrapper off of new crayons and replace with a plain white piece of paper. Have the children think of how crayon colors are named (there is also a book on how crayons are made which is neat). Give them each a crayon and have them use their imagination to "name" the color.
Date: 2-29-00Color Collage Precut magazine pictures that demonstrate the color you are teaching. Put them in a pile in the center of the table and let the children choose a few each. Give each child a piece of construction paper and help them glue the pictures on. This is a great project for a family day care where there are different ages of children!
2-16-00In our dramatic play we have a shelf which we furnish with props to go with our theme. For colors the theme was interior decorating. We put out paint color strips, wallpaper and fabric books, paint cans and paint brushes, decorating magazine etc. We also redecorated some areas of the room by painting " wallpaper for the different areas. We used some cheap wallpaper in some areas and butcher paper in others. Color decisions were made as a group making sure everyone's favorite color was included somewhere. Painting with sponges, plastic bags, or table prints all produced different looks and we even made a section of footprints.
Date: 1-12-00When "thinkin'" about a color, we make that color playdough and use it for about two weeks. Example: red playdough. Then we might think about yellow and make yellow playdough, while saving the red. Our next color is orange of course and we "make" it ourselves by mixing the red and yellow playdough together! Date: 1-9-00I did a color theme for a week. For my bulletin board I cut strips of construction paper in rainbow colors and put around the board in the right order. I then put up the title a rainbow of colors or a world of rainbows. I had my pre-k kids color rainbows in the right order and placed on the board. It really brightened up our room. And the kids learned their colors (which they already knew) but also learned the order of a rainbow, and how a rainbow is made. |
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