COLOR
FOCUS: Blue, White COLOR
FOCUS: Blue, White
From Stormie:
Science
Activities:
**White
Snow: Ask the children a question like, "Since snow is white, when it melts,
will it be white if we paint with it on paper?" Bring in real snow and let
the children test this "theory" on various colors of paper to determine the "color"
of snow.
Once it has been determined
that melted snow is water, ask, "How do you think we could make melted snow white
(or blue) (or whatever your colors are for the month).
**Blue
and White Extensional Activity: If children in your classroom aren't too young
and they know primary and secondary colors confidently, you may want to then introduce
them to: Shades of Color: Define and demonstrate what a light and dark
shade of color is by adding black or white paint to any other color of paint.
For the color "blue," provide examples of light and dark blue objects, pictures
of blue things, and light and dark blue color crayons and markers. Provide
lots of brushes along with blue, black, white, red, and green paints. Introduce
color words that describe various shades of blue, then let the children experimentally
mix paints. Ask questions like, "How would you make light blue?
Dark blue? Or, how would you make 'azure, navy, royal, and/or aqua' blue?"
(Children love saying new words!) (By the way,
azure is a sky blue, royal blue is a deep blue with a faint reddish tint, and
aqua blue is a light greenish blue.) Laminated paint swatches (from
a hardware store) in various shades of blue are especially neat to have
nearby because your little scientists can place them next to their own paint samples
for comparisons. On another day, you might focus on the color white: "How
would you make 'ivory'? Cream?" Do the same thing as above except
provide white, light yellow, and light brown paints. To
decrease the difficulty, or for those not yet ready, don't get into the fancy
color words, but rather discuss them in terms of only "light and dark" colors.
Pre-Math: Sorting:
1. Provide light and dark versions of
blue paint samples for children to sort.
2. Collect magazine pictures
of animals. Have children sort out all the animals with white skin, fur,
or feathers.
Language: Name "white" things you think are really neat!
By the way, I don't use white lettering
on my webpages because if you print the information out on white paper, the words
won't show up.
Fine Motor/Eye-Hand Coordination: Provide
small and large cardboard rectangles, blue crayons, blue colored pencils, blue
markers, and white paper. Children can trace around the shapes creating
"blue rectangles on white paper."
Variation: On another day, do the
same activity providing white crayons, white colored pencils, white chalk, and
blue paper.
White Food Project: Spread soft white cream cheese on white
bread rectangles.
Science: With very clean hands,
compare the look, feel, smell, and taste of mashed potatoes, a dab of Cool Whip,
and/or the white of a boiled egg. Or, compare the look, feel, and taste
of salt and sugar. Does sugar have a smell? Does salt? What
foods taste good with sugar on them? With salt on them? (To extend
this activity, provide a couple foods that would taste good with sugar, and a
couple foods that would taste good with salt.)
Colors Review Activity: Have children color white cream cheese and/or white whipped topping by adding drops of primary food colorings to them. They can then combine the colors of cream cheese and/or whipped topping to create secondary colors.
*From
one of my good friends, June Waege, in Wisconsin:
Blue On White/White On Blue: On a big piece of white paper,
glue a sheet of blue construction paper on one half, making the total paper half
white and half blue. Children glue blue collage items onto the white side
and white items onto the blue side. These always look so cute. To
add a new twist to "collaging," I laid the collage items out on the
floor and gave each child a box and told them to "go shopping in the store"
to get items for their pictures. They thought that was fun! (I
should’ve charged money! Just kidding! )
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