Color Week: Week 22: Monday!

Color Week

Monday

Have your child wear red, blue or red and blue today!

Crafts:

RED:

• Ladybug Pin: Egg carton, markers or paint, cotton balls, poster board, black yarn, safety pin

1. Cut one cup from the egg carton.  Trim it into a ladybug shape.  Color the cup with a red marker or paint.  Draw on a black head, and a line to separate wings.
2. Glue cotton balls to the inside of the cup.  Attach a piece of poster board with glue to the bottom of the cup and cotton balls.  Let the glue dry, then trim around the edges of the poster board with scissors.  Glue legs, made from short pieces of yarn, to the poster board.  Tape or glue a safety pin to the bottom of the ladybug.  
3. Instead of safety pin, glue a piece of magnetic strip to ladybug to make a refrigerator magnet.

• 3-D Apple: Plastic-foam egg carton, paint or markers, string or ribbon

1. On the lid of a plastic-foam egg carton, draw two apples of the same size.  Draw a stem on only one apple.  Cut out the apple shapes.
2. Cut a slit in each shape in the following manner: The shape with the stem should be slit from the bottom to the center of the apple.  Slit the other piece from the top down to the center.  Fit the apple together by sliding the slits into one another.  Spread some glue around the slits.  
3. Color the apple with paint or markers.  Poke a hole in the stem, and attach a loop of string or ribbon for a hanger.  

• Strawberry Necklace: 2 plastic bottle caps, glue, paint(red, black), green flower tape, green ribbon, paintbrushes.

1. Glue both ribbon ends between bottle caps.  Make sure to press tightly until the glue sets so that the ribbon ends remain between the bottle caps.
2. Paint bottle caps red and let dry.
3. Paint black seed spots onto bottle cap strawberries and let dry.
4. Tear 1" strips of green flower tape and glue to the tops of strawberries for leaves.  Make sure you tear these so they look like real leaves!

BLUE:

• Cup 'n Platter Warehouse: Sturdy paper platter, cardboard egg carton, scissors, paint, crayons or markers, ribbon or lace, glue

1. Paint or color the platter. Cut several cup sections from a cardboard egg carton.  Color or paint.  Let dry.  Decorate the rim of the platter.  Lace makes it very pretty.
2. Arrange the cup sections on the platter and carefully glue in place.  Create a hanger and fill the cups with earnings or other small jewelry or toys.  Could also make a workshop organizer for nuts, bolts, and screws or even fishing tackle.

• Money Tube: Cardboard snack tube, large and medium brushes, paint (dark blue, light blue, white, black), sponge(cut-up)

1. Remove the lid of a cardboard snack tube.  Cut a slot in the base; this is now the top of the money tube.  Paint the tube light blue all over and leave to dry.  
2. Paint bright blue waves around the bottom of the tube and use a sponge to dab white paint above the waves as clouds.
3. Paint a few seagulls in between.  
4. Replace the lid on the bottom of the tube.

• Coloring and Trace Pages:  Like strawberries, blueberries, ladybugs, cherries, apples, Little Boy Blue

• Color Worksheets at tlsbooks

Rainbow Craft:  Crayons(rainbow colors), white paper

•  Have your child draw beautiful rainbows on white paper

• Rainbow Song: printable song sheet and activity sheet

Activities: 

• Color Dance: Music of all types, Construction paper (cover with clear self-adhsive paper)

1. Lay squares on the floor in any order.
2. Each child stands on a square.
3. Play music.
4. Children move from square as the music plays.
5. Stop music.
6. Children say the color of the square on which they are standing.
7. Repeat. 
8. You can have the children decide how they will move from square to square(backwards, sideways, hopping, crawling, holding hands, slow, fast).
9. Children can sing songs instead of listening to music as they move, if they want.

• Color Collages: Red and Blue pictures from magazines or newspapers, thin cardboard, glue, glitter(red and blue)

1. Glue all red pictures on a piece of cardboard.
2. Cut out the letters RED out of the newspaper or magazine and glue on top of pictures.  Add a bit of glue over the top to add red glitter.
3. Do the same thing for the Blue pictures.
4. If you want you can just add the red and blue pictures together too.
5. Add yarn to the back for hanging up if you want.

• Color Puzzles: Thin cardboard (cereal box), crayons or construction paper for all colors, markers for all colors (red, blue, green , yellow, black, white, brown, purple) glue, scissors, pencil

1. Down the cardboard piece, divide into sections with marker.  
2. Then down the middle of the cardboard, divide it using simple different shapes like a puzzle.  Make sure you will have 8 pieces all together.
3. Cut out the pieces.  
4. Take the pieces and use as tracers for each color.  So you should have 2 pieces for each color puzzle.  
5. Then glue the paper onto the cardboard piece.  Let dry.
6. Then on one half of each color puzzle right the name of the color in their color.  Like on the blue pieces, right blue on the right side with a blue marker.  Make sure to keep all the names on either the left or right side.  

Snacks: 

• Strawberries, tomatoes, apple, cherries, red jello
• Blueberries, blueberry pancakes or muffins

Education: 

Letters and Words:

• Word of the day:  Index cards, pen

1. IN
2. Practice this word with your child.
3. Show them what the word means.  Going in and out of things, like doors, indoors and outdoors.

• Word Charades: Paper, Pen, Box

1. Write words on pieces of paper that you can act out like: Dog, Cat, Chicken, Tree, Robot, Violin, Baseball.  Place words in box.
2. Divide into teams.  Let each group select a slip.
3. Have each group act out their selection for the other group.

Numbers:

• Pretty Paper Orchard: Colored tissue paper, pencil with eraser, crayons, assorted colors, glue

1. Draw 5 trees on your paper using crayons.
2. Now think of a fruit you like to eat.
3. Tear the tissue paper into small squares.  Then hold down your eraser on each square and twist the eraser wrinkling up the paper to make fruit for your trees. 
4. Glue one fruit to the fruit tree, two to the second tree, and so on, until you have a tree with 5 fruits. 
5. Write the number of fruit pieces each tree has on its trunk.

• Use different colors of tissue paper for a single silly tree with 5 different kinds of fruit!
• The next time you visit the grocery store, look at all the different fruits.   Count 5 fruits that you like, 6 that have smooth skins, 7 that are round, and 8 that are red. 

Music:

• Guitar Craft: Cardboard gift wrap tube, construction paper, pencil, plastic string or long rubber band, ruler, scissors, shoebox or facial tissue box, transparent tape, glue, paint

1. Measure a 6" long oval on the lid of the shoebox and carefully cut out.  If you are using a tissue box, this will not be necessary, as the hole is already cut out for you.
2. Cover the box with construction paper.
3. Using the end of the cardboard tube as your guide, trace and cut a hole in the end of the box.
4. Insert the cardboard tube all the way into the box, pushing it down as far as it will go.
5. Add a bit of glue to the hole in the end of the cardboard box to secure the cardboard tube into place.
6. Decorate guitar with additional construction paper embellishments or paint, as desired.
7. Tape the string or rubber band to the base of the guitar and pull up the front of the tube.  If you are using a rubber band, remember to cut it so that it is one long string instead of circular.
8. Secure the string at the top of the tube with tape. 

Songs:

RED (Sung to: "The Farmer in the Dell")
R-E-D spells red.
R-E-D spells red.
Apples and tomato juice R-E-D spells red.

B-l-u-e spells blue
B-l-u-e spells blue
hi ho did you know B-l-u-e spells blue

BLUE (Sung to: "Are You Sleeping?")
B-L-U-E, B-L-U-E, that spells blue, that spells blue.
The color of the sky, the color of the sky.
B-L-U-E, B-L-U-E.

• Color Songs were found on perpetual preschool

Nursery Rhyme:

• Little Boy Blue: History and Rhyme
• Little Red Robin Breast: History and Rhyme

White Bunny, White Bunny

White bunny, white bunny 

What do you see?

I  see an orange carrot

Waiting for me.

Orange carrot, orange carrot

What do you see?

I see yellow sun 

Shining on me.

Yellow sun, yellow sun,

What do you see?

I see a gray cloud

Moving toward me.

Gray cloud, gray cloud.

What do you see?

I see a little blue raindrop 

Falling from me.

Blue raindrop, blue raindrop,

What do you see?

I see pink flowers

Growing, because of me.

Pink flower, pink flower,

What do you see?

I see lots of white bunnies

Hopping around me.

The poem could be used as an action rhyme--hopping for the rabbit, standing straight and tall for the carrot, arms raised above the head for the sun, arms lowered and child bent over for the cloud, fingers trickling down the rain, squatting and opening up arms for the flower, hopping around for the bunnies.

Reading:

• Red Rhino by Alan Rogers
• Red Bear by Bodel Rikys
• Little Red Riding Hood
• Little Red Hen
• Is it Red? Is It Yellow? Is it Blue? by Tana Hoban
• Blue Bug's Book of Colors by Virginia Poulet

Color Week: Week 22: Monday!