Color Week: Week 22: Thursday!

Color Week:

Thursday

Have your child wear Pink and/or Orange Today!

Pink:

• Butterfly Magnet: pink paint, craft stick, pink foam craft, 2 gogglie eyes, pink pom pom, little pom poms(any light colors), glue, magnetic strip, pink pipe cleaner, pink glitter

1. Paint craft stick pink add glitter. Let dry.
2. Cut a butterfly shape(wings) from pink foam craft.
3. Glue wings on back of craft stick.
4. Glue pink pom pom at top of craft stick for the head.
5. Glue eyes onto pink pom pom.
6. Cut pink cleaner to make the antennae.  Bend into a V and glue on the back of the craft stick.
7. Glue little pom poms onto the wings.
8. Place magnetic strip to back of craft stick.

• Eggcup Pig: Cardboard egg carton, pink and black paint, pink pipe cleaner, stapler, glue, 2 gogglie eyes, cardboard, pink construction paper, scissors

1. Cut out a two-cup section from a cardboard egg carton.  Bend the cups toward each other, rim to rim.  Staple them together to form a body. 
2. Paint the body pink and let dry.
3. Make legs from cardboard and glue them to the body.  
4. To make the tail, wrap a pipe cleaner half around your finger and put glue on one end and push into back of pig.
5. Cut pig ears out of construction paper and glue them onto pig.
6. Glue on eyes. 
7. Paint on nostrils with black paint.

Pink and Orange:

• Rope-It-In Basket: Balloon, small bowls, newspaper, pink and orange yarn, scissors, glue, straight pin

1. Inflate balloon and place it in a bowl to keep it from rolling around while you work.
2. This project is messy to do, so put newspaper down before starting.  Cut strips of yarn and soak in a bowl of white glue.
3. Remove a piece of yarn from the bowl, squeezing the excess glue back into a bowl.
4. Drape the yarn over the inflated balloon.  Drape more lengths of yarn over the ballon, layering pieces over one another and leaving the bottom ( a few inches around the tied end) bare.
5. Set aside to dry completely.  When dry,  pop the balloon with a straight pin and carefully remove. 

• Beaded Pipe Cleaner Bracelet: Pink and orange pipe cleaners, pink and orange beads

1. Twist pink and orange pipe cleaners together, white twisting them add beads in between the twists.  
2. Then twist both ends together.

RAINBOW Craft:

• Crafty Crayon Container: Box of new crayons, glue, small can, tape

1. Add tape around the edges of the can, to protect against any sharp edges.
2. Glue crayons, with wrappers taken off, around the can.   Let dry.

Activities:

• Paddle Game: Cardboard egg carton, pink and orange feathers, masking tape, pink and orange markers, two small paper plates, pink and orange crayons, paper towel tube

1. To make the shuttlecock, cut out one egg-carton cup and glue feathers around the outside edge. After the glue dries, cover the bottom of the feathers with masking tape.  Use markers to color the masking tape and egg cup.
2. To make the paddles, color the two plates with crayons or markers.  Cut two 1-inch rings from the tube, and glue one to the back of each plate for handles.
3. To play with a friend, use the paddles to tap the shuttlecock back and forth.  To play alone, tap alone, tape the shuttlecock up the air with your paddles.
4. You can make four or five paddles and play with a group of friends standing in a circle.

• Marshmallow Painting: Marshmallows(Different Sizes), pink and orange paint, construction paper, toothpicks

1. Place toothpicks into the marshmallows. 
2. Dip the marshmallows into the paint and press onto paper.
3. Make all sorts of different designs.
4. You can have rainbow paint too and make a nice marshmallow print rainbow.

• Color Collages: Pink and Orange pictures from magazines or newspapers, thin cardboard, glue, glitter(Pink and orange)

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

• Yellow, Pink and Orange: Yellow, orange, and pink construction paper, glue, scissors, 3 popsicle sticks

1. Using construction paper circles glued to popsicle sticks, tell your children that when you hold up the yellow circle they are to clap their hands.  When you hold up the orange circle they are to stand up and when you hold up the pink circle they are to sit down.  Start out slowly and gradually increase the speed.  To calm the children, reduce the speed and to end the game hold up the pink circle.  If you want you can have your kids give it a try with the circle paddles.

Snacks:

• Carrots, oranges, pink lemonade, strawberry milk, orange jello, pink pudding, pink grapefruit, tangerines, carrot cake

Education:

Letters/Words:

• Word of the day:

1. You
2. Use the word you in sentences today. You are a good girl/boy.  You are doing such a great job!  Are you having fun?  
3. Have fun with your child coming up with different sentences using you.

• Rhyming Game:

1. Think of words that rhyme with each other.  Like red-bed, blue-shoe, tan-man, brown-crown, dog-hog, cat-hat.
2. How many rhymes can you come up with.  If you want you can write the rhymes down on a piece of paper and see what ones get the most rhymes.
3. You can make up sentences with your rhyming words too.

• What Does It Start With?:

1. Say a word, like dog, and have your child guess what letter is starts with.
2. Have them sound out the word, stress the first letter.
3. Ask them what other words start with that letter, like down, dirt, diego
4. If you want you can write down the words that you child says that go with the letter D, and see how many they can come up with.

Numbers: 

• Climbing The Mountain: Piece of paper, crayons

1. Have your child draw a mountain scene.
2. Then have your child pretend to climb the mountain as they say, " I climbed the mountain and I took 1 (something)."
3. Then have another child or yourself say the same thing except take 2 of something different.
4. Now your child says the same thing only this time take 3 of something.  Keep on taking turns with each other until you get to 10. 

• If you were really climbing a mountain, what 6 things might you smell? What 7 things would you hear? What are 8 things you might see? Are there 9 things you could touch on a mountain. 

• I Can Count Rhyme: 

One, one, one, one.

I can run in the sun.

Two, two, two, two.

I can tie my shoe.

Three, three, three, three.

I can bend my knee.

Four, four, four, four.

I can touch the floor.

One, two, three, four.

I can count some more!

You can have your child write their own number rhyme and/or continue counting.

Music:

• Color Hokey Pokey: Sticky foam craft(red, blue, green, purple, yellow, orange, pink, brown, white, black

1. Cut circles of each color for each child playing. 
2. Stick circles onto your child.  Red-head, blue-right hand, green-left hand, purple-right leg, yellow-left leg, orange-butt, brown-right elbow, pink-left elbow, white-right knee, black-left knee.  
3. Then sing the hokey pokey and use the colors for the song.  You put red in and take red out, You put red in and you shake it all about.  You do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself about, that's what it's all about!  You do this for each color.

Nursery Rhyme: 

• This Little Piggy:  origins and lyrics
• Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater: origins and lyrics

Books:

• Three Little Pigs by Paul Galdone
• Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh
• If You Give A Pig A Pancake by Laura Numeroff
• Pinkalicious by Victoria Kann
• The Big Orange Splot by Danile Pinkwater
• Dr Seuss: Put Me In The Zoo by Robert Lopshire
• Dr. Seuss: I Want To Be Somebody New by Robert Lopshire

Some Ideas Found In The Following Books:

• The Giant Encyclopedia of Circle Time and Group Activities by Gryphon House
• Rosie O' Donnell's Crafty U 
• The Kid's Encyclopedia of Things To Make And Do by Richard Michael Rasmussen
• Math Play! by Diane McGowan
• Look What You Can Make With Dozens Of Household Items! by Boyds Mills Press

Color Week: Week 22: Thursday!