Color Week: Week 22: Saturday!

Color Week: 

Saturday!

Crafts:

Brown:

• Brown Furry Bear: Cardboard tubes, cardboard, scissors, glue, brown furry felt, pink felt, pink and brown pom pom, gogglie eyes, small plastic lid

1. For legs, cut four tubes of equal lengths. 3" to 4" long is good.  Decorate them with the brown furry felt, set aside to dry.
2. Cut a cardboard square for body.  About 4" x 4" is good.  Decorate it with brown with furry felt.
3. To make the head, cover a small plastic lid with brown furry felt.  
4. Assemble your bear.  First glue the legs to the body, and let the glue set.  All four legs touch.  Glue on the head.
5. Glue brown pompom on for the tail.
6. Glue pink pom pom on the face for the nose and the eyes on the head.
7. Cut two small felt pieces for the ears and bend them in half so that they are all fur, glue in place.  In the middle place cut pieces of pink felt on.  Cut a small triangle for the mouth and glue into place.

• Brown Bear Mask: Paper plate, scissors, TP tube, Paint(light and dark brown), yarn or elastic, stapler, pencil

1. Cut eyes and mouth out of the paper plate.  Keep these pieces for the ears.
2. Staple ears on the top of plate.
3. Cut a TP roll into half or one-fourth and glue on the front for the nose.  Let dry.
4. Paint the face and ears dark brown, let dry.
5. Then paint the middle of the ears light brown.  Also, paint light brown around the eyes, nose and mouth.  Paint the nose light brown too.
6. Attach the yarn or elastic to the sides of the mask, just below the eye level.

Purple:

• Compact Binoculars: Plastic-foam egg carton, yarn, hole punch, construction paper, marker, purple paint, toothpaste cap, purple plastic wrap, glue

1. Cut the end from an egg carton, so that you have a two-cup piece and the lid above it.  
2. Cut eyeholes from the bottom of the egg cups.  In the lid directly opposite these holes, cut holes of the same size.  
3. Cut a piece of purple plastic wrap and glue it onto the inside of the lid section.  You're doing this so when you look through the binoculars everything will look purple.
4. With a hole punch, make a hole on each side of the binoculars.  Tie a piece of yarn to the holes to make a strap.
5. Glue the lid portion and the cup portion shut.  Glue a piece of yarn around the seam.
6. Glue on a piece of purple paper to cover the bottom of the binoculars.  
7. Paint the binoculars purple.  Let dry.
8. Glue a painted toothpaste cap to the top.
9. With a marker, trace around the holes.

• Purple Flowers: Egg carton cups, purple paint, green pipe cleaners, ribbon, glue, paintbrushes, pencil, tissue paper

1. Cut each egg cup to resemble a flower.
2. Paint each egg-cup flower purple.
3. After the paint dries, use the pencil to poke two small holes about 1/2 inch apart in the bottom of each flower.
4. To make a stem, bend a pipe cleaner in half. Thread it through the holes in the bottom of the flower; then gently twist the ends together.
5. Glue a crumpled piece of tissue paper in the center of each flower.
6. To make a bouquet, tie the flower stems together with ribbon.
7. If desired, cut out green construction paper leaves for each flower.  Poke a hole in each leaf and then thread it onto the stem before twisting the pipe cleaners together.  Then twist the stem together to hold the leaves in place.

• Color Collages: Purple and Brown pictures from magazines or newspapers, thin cardboard, glue, glitter(Purple and Brown)

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

RAINBOW:

• Color-Matching Worm Puzzle: White paper, scissors, rainbow crayon colors(red, blue, yellow, orange, purple, green), pencil

1. Draw a large curvy worm on a piece of paper. Cut out the worm.  Then cut the worm into seven equal sections, but keep him lined up in the proper order.
2. On each side of the first cut, color a large red dot.  On each side of the next cut, color a large blue dot.  On each side of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth cuts, color in yellow, green, orange and purple dots.
3. Now mix up the pieces. Put the worm puzzle back together again by matching the colors to each other.

Activities:

• Pinecone Bird Feeder: Peanut butter, birdseed, large pinecones, yarn, scissors, table knife, wax paper

1. Cut a length of string 1 to 2 feet long.
2. Tie the string around a pinecone near the top, so the cone hangs down.
3. Spread out a sheet of wax paper.  Hold the cone down on the wax paper.  Spread peanut butter all over the cone.
4. Sprinkle birdseed over the cone.
5. Roll the cone in birdseed on the wax paper.  Repeat with the rest of the cones.
6. Tie the cones to tree branches.

• Color Cards: Index Cards, Rainbow crayons(blue, red, green, purple, orange, yellow), paper, pencil

1. Write the name of the color on each index card, in that color.  For example, with a blue crayon write the color blue.  
2. Make a little blue dot, square, heart or anything you wish.
3. Practice the cards with your child.  
4. Have them write out each color.

• Bake/Cook/Make Day Saturday

Snacks:

• Brownies, pretzels, peanut butter, brown rice, meatloaf, hot dogs and buns, purple grapes, eggplant, plums, grape juice

Education:

• Word of the day: Review the words of the week: In, Is You, That

1. Does your child remember how to spell these words?  How about last week's words.
2. Have them right out each word, say it out loud, and spell it.

• Post-It Note Word Game: Post-it notes, marker, white paper, scissors, bowl

1. Write each letter of the word onto its own post-it note. Remember to include last weeks words and any other words they may know how to spell.
2. Place the letters around the house.
3. Then write each word on a piece of paper.  Cut out each word and fold it up and place in bowl.
4. Next, have your child grab a piece of paper and look at the word.  Have them say the word and spell it out.  Now, your child must find their word around the house.  They can only grab the letters in their word. For example, if their word is THAT, then they have to find the letters T, H, A, T.  They must leave all the other letters be.  When they find all the letters, they can come back and the next child goes or your child can go again until all the words are found.

Numbers:

• Card Swap:  Playing cards (minus the aces, jokers, and face cards)

1. Take the cards 2 through 10 out of the deck and mix them up.
2. Place 4 cards face up in front of you and 4 cards in front of a friend.
3. Put the rest of the cards face up in the "draw" pile.
4. Have your child ask the other player, "Please give me your threes," or any number that you want.
5. Make sure they say "Thank you" when the other player passes them the cards.
6. If they have the same number to match it with, take both cards and put them in their match pile.  If they don't have the same number, set it down beside the draw pile.
7. If the other player doesn't have the card they asked for, take the top card from the draw pile.  If they don't have the same number, set it down beside the draw pile.
8. Take turns asking for cards and swapping them.  The game is over when all the cards in the draw pile have been picked up.

Another learning card game is you and your child each flip a card from the stack and whoever has the higher number keeps both cards.  When you've finished the stack, count how many cards each of you have.  

Nursery Rhyme:

Little Jack Horner

Little Jack Horner sat in the corner

Eating his Christmas pie,

He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum

And said "What a good boy am I!"

TEDDY BEAR, TEDDY BEAR

Teddy bear, Teddy bear,
Touch the ground.
Teddy bear, Teddy bear,
Turn around.
Teddy bear, Teddy bear,
Show your shoe.
Teddy bear, Teddy bear,
That will do.
Teddy bear, Teddy bear,
Run upstairs.
Teddy bear, Teddy bear,
Say your prayers.
Teddy bear, Teddy bear,
Blow out the light.
Teddy bear, Teddy bear,
Say good night.

Music:

The bear went over the moutain

The bear went over the mountain,
The bear went over the mountain,
The bear went over the mountain,
To see what he could see
To see what he could see,
To see what he could see
The other side of the mountain,
The other side of the mountain,
The other side of the mountain,
Was all that he could see
Was all that he could see,
Was all that he could see,
The other side of the mountain,
Was all that he could see!

Reading:

• We're going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury
• Purplelicious by Victoria Kann
• We're going on a Book Hunt by Pat Miller
• If kissed we're colors by Janet Lawler
• A color of his own by Leo Lionni

Color Week: Week 22: Saturday!