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!

Color Week: Week 22: Friday!

Color Week: 

Friday!

Have your child wear Black and/or White today!

Crafts:

Black:

• Bee Ring: Pom Poms (1"Black, two 5mm Yellow), pipe cleaners(black and yellow), 2 gogglie eyes, white felt, 1/4" elastic

1. Make a circle out of the yellow pipe cleaner to go around the black pom pom.  Add glue around the circle and stick it on the middle of the pom pom.
2. Cut a baby stinger out of the yellow pipe cleaner and glue it to the back of the bee.
3. Glue on eyes.
4. Bend a black pipe cleaner into a V-shape for the antennae and glue into place.  Glue small yellow pom poms onto the ends of the black pipe cleaners.
5. Cut out an 8-shape out of white felt for the wings and glue on the back of the bee.
6. Add elastic in a shape of a ring onto the bottom on the black pom pom for the ring.

White: 

• Puffy Clouds: Blue construction paper, cotton balls, glue, crayons or colored chalk

1. Glue cotton balls onto the paper.  Your child can leave them the way they are or stretch them out.
2. Make a background picture for their picture like grass, house, whatever they want.  They can use small pieces of cotton balls to make little critters hopping around their pictures like a white bunny or white Arctic fox or polar bear.

Black and White:

• Wintry Night Resist Painting: White paper, white crayon, black poster paint

1. Draw snowflakes and/or a snowman on a piece of white paper with white crayon.  Press very hard as you draw.
2. When the drawing is done, paint over it with black poster board paint.  
3. The crayon will resist the paint, and the black color against the white crayon will create a wintry night effect.

• Pencil Wrap Pom Pom Skunk:  Pom pom (black- 1", two 10mm; pink 5mm), chenille stems (white and hot pink 6mm and black bump), two 6mm gogglie eyes, pencil

1. Glue two pom poms on the bottom back of the large black pom pom for legs.
2. Glue eyes onto the front.  Also glue pink pom pom onto face for the skunk's nose.
3. Take two black bumps, bend them in half and glue onto the back of the body for the tail of the skunk.
4. Cut and glue a piece of white pipe cleaner down the black of the head, body and tail of the skunk.
5. Wrap the hot pink chenille stem around a pencil and glue the skunk at the top of the stem.

• Panda Pebble Pet: Large pebble, white and black acrylic paint, large and medium paintbrushes, glue, 2 gogglie eyes, pink felt-tipped pen

1. Paint the pebble white all over using the large paintbrush.  Leave to dry.
2. Paint a black band around the middle of the pebble to make the body.
3. Still using the black paint but with the medium paintbrush, paint patches for the nose and eyes, then the ears. Leave to dry.
4. Glue the gogglie eyes onto the eye patches.  Set aside until glue is dry.  Draw a smile with the pink felt-tipped pen.

• Popcorn Trees: Black construction paper, any other color construction paper, scissors, glue, popped popcorn, scissors

1. On black construction paper, take turns tracing around your child's hands and wrists.  White chalk or white pencil works well for tracing.
2. Cut out a tree pattern.  Glue the tree on any color construction paper.
3. Glue popcorn to tree.

• RAINBOW: Finger Paint Rainbow colors(blue, green, yellow, red, orange, purple), ziploc quart-sized resealable plastic bags, white paper

1. Ask your child which colors they want in each bag.  Add 2 or more colors in a bag.
2. Place the bags on a flat, clean surface where your child can squeeze, squash, and mix the paint.
3. Then let your child paint different pictures with their fingers using their mixed-up paint.
4. Make sure to ask them what colors were made from all the colors they added together. 

• Rainbow Memory Match Game: Cardboard egg cartons, paint(rainbow), scissors

1. Cut out the egg sections of an egg carton.  Two egg sections for each color.
2. Paint the inside top section of the egg carton, two of each color.
3. To play: place the cups facedown.  Each player turns over two cups and looks at the colors.  If the colors match, the player keeps the pair.  If not, the cups are returned to the facedown position.  It is the next player's turn.  This game continues until all the cups are matched up. The player with the most pairs wins.  
4. You can do this not only with colors, but with letters, numbers, and pictures.  If you want you can use round pieces of paper with these things on it so that you can just pull out the paper and place the next game in like letters, numbers, etc.

Activities:

• Cotton Ball Relay: Cotton balls, straw

1. Each child gets a cotton ball and a straw.  
2. Everyone starts at the start line and tries to be the first to blow their cotton ball over the finish line using a straw.

• Marshmallow Fight: Different sized marshmallows (big ones work the best)

1. Everyone gets a bowl of marshmallows and starts throwing them ate one another, just for fun.

• Marshmallow Stacking Game: Marshmallows, flat surface

1. See how high you can stack the marshmallows on top of each other. 
2. Who can get the highest.

• Marshmallow Snowflake: Gather the marshmallows up from the fight and game, glue, construction paper

1. Have your child glue marshmallows onto a piece of paper to make their everyone snowflake.
2. They can even add glue to the of the marshmallows to add glitter to their snowflake.
3. Your child can even paint their snowflake too.

• Marshmallow Name: Marshmallows, glue, pencil, paper

1. If you have any marshmallows left over, your child can write their name in marshmallows.
2. Have them write their first name in big print on a piece of paper.
3. Then glue marshmallows onto their letters.
4. They can paint the marshmallows and add glitter for a cool design.

• Snow Science: Snow, glass measuring cup

1. Go outside and put some snow in a glass measuring cup.  
2. Then go inside and mark the snow level on the outside of the cup.
3. Allow the snow to melt in the cup.
4. Then mark the water level in the cup and compare it to the original snow level.
5. How much water was in the snow?

• Snowflake Examination: Black construction paper, magnifying glass, snowing outside

1. When it snowing, step outside with a magnifying glass and a sheet of black paper.
2. Collect some snowflakes on the paper.  
3. Then look at the captured snowflakes through the magnifying glass.  
4. Study their shapes.  What does your child see?

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

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

Snacks:

•  Olives, popcorn, milk, eggs, ice cream, rice

Education:

Letters/Words:

• Word of the day: index card, pen

1. That
2. Use the word of the day in different sentences.
3. See if you can add the other words they learned with the new word.
4. Make sure you're writing their new words onto an index cards, to use as flash cards.

• What does it start with? Books with pictures

1. In each picture, see if your child can find things that begin with the letters of the alphabet.  For example:  For the letter A, they might find an apple, ape, apron, etc. Then work on the next letter B, book, beetle, bug, bat, etc.

Numbers:

• Sew-Up Numbers:Colored index cards, hole puncher, yarn, plastic needle, pencil, scissors

1. Write a number on each card.  Punch holes out of the number.  For example for the number 5 you can punch out 11 holes.  
2. Then have your child thread their needle with a piece of yarn.
3. Next, have them sew-up their numbers.

• License Plate Game: 

1. The next time you're in a car or on a walk, look at the numbers on the license plates of cars on the road.
2. Look for the numbers 1 through 9 in order.  When you see a 1, shout, "One!"  and then "Two!" when you see a 2, all the way up to 9.
3. You can do this for speed limit signs, road signs, house numbers, billboard numbers.  
4. You can even do this for shapes too.  Find 3 circles, 4 squares, 5 triangles.

Music:

• Itsy Bitsy Spider
• Humpty Dumpty

Nursery Rhymes:

• Baa, Baa Black Sheep
• Little Miss Muffet

For the lyrics and origins of nursery rhymes and songs 

The reading lady has great color songs and songs.

Books:

• Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do you Hear? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
• 365 Penguins by Jean-Luc Fromental
• Penguins by Liz Pichon
• Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What do you See? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
• Panda and Polar Bear by Mattew J. Baek
• Hush Little Polar Bear by Jeff Mack

Color Week: Week 22: Friday!

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!

Color Week: Week 22: Tuesday!

Color Week

Tuesday!

Have your child wear yellow or green or both today!

Crafts:

GREEN:

• 3-D Trees: Watercolors or watercolor markers, two 9" x 12" pieces of construction paper (green for tree, yellow for frame), glue, scissors, classified ad section of the newspaper, medium-point  black markers, paintbrushes

1. Cut a 7" x 10" rectangle from the newspaper ad section.
2. Color some blocks of ads using a variety of different colors.
3. Outline the colored blocks with a medium-point marker.
4. Glue an ad section to the corner of the construction paper (frame).
5. Make a 3-D  tree.  Cut out a tree pattern (Large irregular leaf section and a truck section) and glue it to colored ads.
6. Cut two smaller leaf sections and glue the center sections to the center of the tree pattern's leaf section.  (When dry, fold these sections out to create a 3-D effect.)
7. Fold edges of construction paper ( about 1") toward the ad to make a frame.  Pinch and glue the corners.

• Twinkling Traffic Light: Half sheet of yellow construction paper (cut lengthwise), piece of cardboard, red, yellow, and green colored corn-syrup paint, glitter(red, gold, green), pencil, paintbrush, hole puncher, yarn, scissors, glue

1. To make corn-syrup paint, stir food coloring into clear corn syrup until desired color is achieved.
2. Trace three circles onto the cardboard.
3. Using the corn-syrup paint, paint  the middle circle yellow, the bottom circle green, and the top one red.  Sprinkle the corresponding color of glitter on each circle. (Allowing approximately three days for drying time.)
4. Trace three circles onto the yellow paper and cut them out.  Glue the remaining yellow piece onto the painted piece.
5. Punch a hole above the red circle.
6. Attach a yarn hanger to the top of the traffic light.

• Critter Keepers:  Green felt, egg carton, black marker, gogglie eyes, red foam paper, 2 plastic-foam balls, glue

1. Cut a piece of felt big enough to cover the lid of an egg carton.  It should be at least 7" x 15" in size.  Glue the felt to the lid, tucking in the edges as you would gift wrap and gluing them securely.  Let glue dry.
2. For the eyes, glue 2 plastic foam balls to the top of the carton. Glue eyes onto the balls.
3. Cut out tongue shape from red foam paper and add detail with marker.  Glue the tongue on the inside of the lid.

YELLOW:

• Duck Cozy: 2 Gogglie eyes, plastic 2-liter soda cap, 2 yellow pipe cleaners, glue, orange paint, yellow feathers, orange foam, yellow foam cozy, scissors, paintbrush

1. Paint soda cap orange. Let dry.  Glue onto cozy. 
2. Cut a beak upper and lower from orange foam craft.  Glue one around the top of the cap and one around the bottom of the cap.  Let dry.
3. Cut 2 duck feet from the orange foam and glue it on the bottom of the cozy.
4. Cut the yellow pipe cleaners in half.  Glue one feather onto each pipe cleaner.  Let dry.  Glue the feathers onto the back of the cozy.  
5. Glue smaller feathers on the side for wings.  

• Sunflower Vase: Cylindrical potato chip can, construction paper(green and yellow), glue, pipe cleaners(black and green), pencil, ribbon, scissors, small, plain paper plate, sunflower seeds with shells, transparent tape, stick without leaves

1. Clean the inside of the potato chip can.
2. Glue green construction paper around the can to make the vase.
3. Use a pencil to trace your child's hand 6-8 times onto yellow construction paper.
4. Cut out the handprints, then glue them onto the paper plate to make a sunflower.  Glue them around in layers.  Bending them inwards.
5. Bend black pipe cleaner into a circle and glue to center of sunflower.  Glue the seeds inside the pipe cleaner circle.  
6. Twist pipe cleaner around the stick, leaving enough room at the top to tape or glue the sunflower.
7. Tape or glue sunflower to stick, then place in flower vase.
8. Surround the base of the stick with newspaper or tissue paper so the flower stand up tall.
9. Tie ribbon around the top of the vase.

• Sunflower Pom Pom Magnet: Pom Poms (1" Orange, 5 mm Yellow), 5 mm googlie eyes, yellow and orange foam craft, magnet, black pipe cleaner

1. Cut out a sun shape out of the yellow foam.  Make sure to have several points around the sun.
2. Cut out little orange triangles and glue them by the points.
3. Glue the orange pom pom into the middle of the sun.  Let dry.
4. Glue eyes onto the orange pom pom.  
5. Make a little pair of sunglasses to go over the eyes.  Just make 2 little loops out of the black pipe cleaner.  
6. Glue magnet onto back of sun.

• RAINBOW: Cardboard egg carton(cut in half lengthwise making a strip of 6 cups), Construction paper scraps of 6 different colors (red, yellow, blue, green, purple, and black), 1 pipe cleaner, black marker or crayon, glue, piece of yarn (12"-16" long)

1. Children cut out one circle from each colored sheet of the construction paper.  The circles can be drawn on the paper to make is easier for younger children.
2. Children glue one circle on each hump of the upside-down egg carton strip.
3. Children bend the pipe cleaner in half and insert it to make the antennae in the first egg cup.
4. Children draw eyes on the first egg cup.
5. Make a small hole in the front of the first cup for the string.
6. Children push a piece of yarn through the hole in the front of the first egg cup. The yarn is knotted and it makes a pulling handle. 

Activities:

• Thread the tube game: Cardboard tube, paint(yellow and green), yellow yarn, large button, scissors, 

1. Decorate a bathroom tissue tube anyway you like. Like green and yellow stripes going down.  
2. Punch a hole near one end of the tube.  
3. Get a piece of yarn that is 12"-18"long.  Tie one end through the hole in the tube and the other end to a large button.
4. To play, hold the tube in an upright position.  Swing, the button in an upward motion, trying to get it to go into the tube.  

• Leap Frog:

1. Have the kids line up single file.  Everyone must squat down close to the ground.
2. On "go," the last player jumps over the line of squatting player, one at a time. (Be sure there is enough room between players!)
3. When he reaches the front of the line, he squats down there.  Then the next player from the back starts "leaping the frogs." 
4. Continue until the original "leaper" is again at the end of the line.  You can also continue if you want.  

• Red Light, Green Light:

1. One player is chosen to be IT. The others line up single file about 20 feet away.
2. IT turns his back to the group and says "green light."  The players in line start running toward "IT".  Meanwhile IT counts quickly to 10.  Then he calls "red light" and whirls around.
3. The players must freeze when they hear "red light." If IT sees anyone moving, he sends him back to the starting line. 
4. The game continues until a player gets close enough to tag IT before he can call "red light." This player is then the new IT.

• Discovering Green:  Paint(yellow and blue), clear plastic container with lid, yellow and blue cellophane (or colored plastic wrap) shapes, 9" x 12" white construction paper, glue, green construction paper, markers

1. Pour some yellow and then blue paint into a clear plastic container.  Secure the container with a lid.
2. Have your child the container and have them observes what happens to the color.
3. Give each child a piece of white construction paper and ask them to glue yellow and blue cellophane shapes to the paper, making sure they overlap some of the shapes.
4. Mount the cellophane pictures on green construction paper and display. 
5. Using the appropriate colored markers, label the display Yellow + Blue = Green.

Activity Worksheets, Coloring Pages and Flash Cards at first-school

• Color Collages: Green and Yellow pictures from magazines or newspapers, thin cardboard, glue, glitter(Green and yellow)

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

Snacks:

GREEN:  Peas, broccoli, lettuce, cucumber, pear, celery, pickles
YELLOW: Bananas, mac-n-cheese, cheese, corn, lemons, lemonade

Education:

Letters/Words:

• Word of the day: 

1. IS
2. Practice this word and yesterday's day IN with today's word.
3. Make up sentences with this word. Like: The sky is blue.  The cat is up the tree.

• Word Practice: Index cards, markers, scissors

1. On an each index card, write a simple 3 or 4 letter word, leave spaces in-between each letter. Like cat, hat, dog, ball, tall.  Then put squares around each letter.
2. Then cut up blank index cards like the squares on the other index cards.  Then right the letters that are in the words onto each blank square, to make word tiles. So for dog, you will need a D O G.
3. Then mix up the tiles(letters).  Have  your child try to find the right letters to put on the index cards.

Math:

• The Doghouse Math: Small, clean milk cartons, craft sticks, glue, crayons or markers, construction paper

1. Cut off the top portion of the milk carton and glue construction paper to cover the remaining sides.
2. Decorate your milk cartons to look like doghouses.  Label the front of one carton with an addition sign, another with a subtraction sign, and the remaining carton with the words "Pet Number Sticks."
3. Turn your craft sticks into dogs or cats and number each stick from 1-10 at the bottom.
4. Use the craft sticks to practice addition and subtraction by using the numbers written on the bottom of the sticks.

• Sock Sort: 4 0r 5 pairs of socks

1. Mix up the socks and spread them out on the floor.
2. Count how many socks there are.
3. Pick one sock and find the one that matches it for a pair.  Now match up the others until your child has used up all the socks.  How many pairs do you end up with?

• The next time someone in your family does the laundry, ask your child if they can help sort all the socks.  They can sort them out in colors first, like a white pile, red pile, etc. Which socks do you have the most of?  The Least of?

Music:

• Make sure to have your child play their guitar, while singing
• Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
• Little Ducks Songs

Nursery Rhyme:

Daffodils

Daffy-down-dilly has come to town In a yellow petticoat and a green gown. Star Light Star Bright

Star Light Star bright,
The first star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,

Have the wish I wish tonight.

Reading:

• Colors by Tana Hoban
• Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni
• Red Day, Green Day by Edith Kunhardt
• Green Bear by Alan Rogers
• Growing Colors by Bruce McMillian

Color Week: Week 22: Tuesday!