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*Red
Red color word with rhyme coloring page worksheet.
*Fingerplays/Songs
Mary Wore a Red Dress
(Have children stand if they are wearing something of that color.)
Mary wore a red dress
red dress red dress
Mary wore a red dress all day long
What is Red?
(tune: three blind mice)
Red, red, red
Red, red, red
What is red?
What is red?
Apples, cherries, and -me, oh my-
Tomatoes to bake in a pizza pie.
Red is the color, and that is why
We sing of red.
Spaghetti Sauce Is Red
(tune: The Farmer in the Dell)
Spaghetti sauce is red,
Sapghetti sauce is red.
I can think of lots of things
That are the color red.
Ask the children to suggest other things that are red. Repeat the
song, each time substituting a child's suggestion for "spaghetti sauce."
*Art
Red Collage
Need: magazines
Let each child cut out magazine pictures that contain the color red
and then glue the pictures on a piece of red construction paper.
Apple Tree
With a brown marker draw a tree on blue construction paper. Place on
the table small containers of red paint. Have children dip a finger
into the red paint and place red fingerprints onto the tree to make
it an apple tree.
*Snack
Snack Ideas:
cranberry juice, red apple slices, cherry gelatin, strawberry tars,
cherry tarts, cherries.
*Yellow
Yellow color word with rhyme coloring page worksheet.
*Fingerplays/Songs
Lots Of Yellow
(tune: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star)
We wear lots of yellow thins.
Hear us name them as we sing:
"Yellow shirts and yellow shoes,
Yellow pants with pockets, too."
We wear lots of yellow things.
Hear us name them as we sing.
*Art
Yellow Flowers
Crumble precut yellow tissue circles and glue on green construction
paper to represent yellow flowers in the grass.
Yarn Designs
Provide yellow yarn, glue, and construction paper for children to
make their own designs.
Yellow Pages college
Give the children the yellow pages from a old telephone book. Let
them cut out and glue onto paper to make a college. Children love
cutting out the different pictures from the telephone book yellow pages.
*Cooking
Yellow Tasting Party
Cut a banana, a pineapple, a lemon, and a piece of yellow cheese into
small pieces. Let the children sample each during snack time.
Other Snack Ideas:
pinapple juice, lemonade, yellow apple slices, 1/2 unpeeled banana,
scrambled eggs, custard, lemon gleatin.
*Learning Centers
Add cornmeal to the sand/water table.
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