Colors -- Preschool & Kindergarten
Green
Art
Creating Green
On construction paper place on one side of the paper a medium amount of blue paint, on the other side of the paper place a medium amount of yellow paint. Have the children fold the paper and smooth it with their hand. Open the paper. Ask the children where did the color green come from.
Green Frogs
Make copies of the cute frog outline on yellow paper. Have the children use blue bingo markers to place dots on the frog. The frog will then magically turn green.
Snack Ideas:
Lime gelatin, lime drink, lettuce, green grapes, celery, green peppers, pickles.
Green Drink
Need: lemonade and blue Kool-aid
Freeze blue Kool-aid in ice cube trays. Serve the children lemonade and add the blue ice cubes to the drink. As the ice cubes melt the lemonade will begin to turn blue.
Orange
Orange color word with rhyme coloring page worksheet
Art
Creating Orange
Paint with red and yellow paint. As the children paint help them see how combining the two colors creates orange.
Paper Towel Magic
Need: red and yellow food coloring, small containers, paper towels.
Have children did a paper towel into red colored water and then into yellow colored water. Allow towel to dry. Mount on black construction paper.
Orange Book
Need: magazines and construction paper
Have children look through magazines and cut out pictures with orange
in them. Children group all the orange pictures together and create
an orange book by gluing their magazine pictures onto construction papers.
Contributed by: Symonsstreet
Story
Cat's Colors (Picture Puffins)
by Jane Cabrera
Cat's Colors (Picture Puffins)
What is Cat's favorite color? Is it green, like the grass where he likes to walk? Or yellow, like the sand on a sunny beach? Children who are learning new colors can join in Cat's fun, as he explores the colors all around him. With its bright palette and playful, endearing kitten, this cheery book is perfect for the very young child.
Video
Yellow
Yellow color word with rhyme coloring page worksheet.
Learning Centers
Add cornmeal to the sand/water table.
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 Collage
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.
