Colors

Colors are always a regular theme that we do in class at the beginning of the year. 

I tell my students stories such as
Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Eric Carle or I Went Walking by Sue Williams

To get into the concept of primary and secondary colors we read books such as
Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh or White Rabbits Color Book by Allan Baker

With colors as a theme, there is a wealth of art activities that follows, such as

• We make recycled crayons and color pictures with them, click here.

• We mix 2 primary paints with our fingers and have some sensory fun

• We put together 2 different primary colors of play dough and work on dexterity as we watch how the colors change.

• We can also paint with colored popsicles, click here

• We talk about the rainbow and the colors, and then I ask them why the colors of the rainbow follow the sequence ROYGBV -- we skip the indigo

• We also sort Froot-Loops according to color and make a fruity rainbow art project.