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I have reserved my very favorite color activities for my "COLORS" booklet (see the "Stormie's Stuff for Teachers" section of my website).

COLORS: Traffic Light Red/Yellow/Green Blue Share your ideas too. E-mail me at stormie@preschoolbystormie.com

From Stormie:

Note: One reason I always choose red, yellow, and green with the theme of Transportation is because these are the colors of traffic lights.

Art Learning Center Activity: March Bulletin Board Border:

For our March border, cut short pieces of red, yellow, green, and blue yarn and lay them in a flat pan of glue. The children simply take them out and lay them on yellow border strips. It's messy but fun, so have soapy water available. Demonstrate picking up the yarn pieces one at a time and dragging them over the edge of the pan to remove excess glue. The glue dries clear so when hung around the bulletin board, you have a colorful March border. Don't forget to discuss the colors.

Extended Science: What Is the Color of Gold? If children in your classroom aren't too young, and they know primary and secondary colors confidently, and they fully understand the concept of "yellow," you may want to then introduce them to the color word "gold." Show them gold (of golden) colored objects using pictures, as well as real objects like brass, jewelry, antique gold, jewelry, or golden colored crayons and markers. Provide black, brown, white, and light and dark shades of yellow paint for them to experimentally create golden shades of yellow. Provide them with gold glitter for adding to their paints too for a little shine and shimmer.

*One of my website visitors, Bobbi Jo Wright, reminds us:

"We can read the old tale 'Little Red Riding Hood' for reviewing the color 'red.'"

*From Alice, in St. George, Utah:
Teaching Tip: Stormie, when having the children experiment with mixing colors, I like putting the clear plastic cups of water, eye droppers, paper towel sheets, and a small pitcher of water all inside the water table. This way, our mess is more or less contained and the children are able to experiment a little more on their own without supervision once the activity is introduced and demonstrated. (I like putting food colorings into old eye drop bottles and show the children how to drop only a couple drops of food coloring into the water -- this does take practice.)

*Here's a neat color song from Kim Rowland that also reviews the letter Rr as well as introduce children to the spelling of a short word (if the children in your class are developmentally ready):

RED

(Tune: Are You Sleeping?)

R-e-d, r-e-dI can spell red, I can spell redFire trucks are red, stop signs are red tooR-e-d, r-e-d.(Whether you're doing both lower and upper case, or just uppercase letters, be sure to review the recognition of the three letters. )

*From Kristina L in Washington State:
Color Indentification/Sorting: Hi Stormie!! Here's an idea I received from a former co-worker, Becky Z, in Arizona:
We painted empty baby formula cans red, blue, yellow, and green (small coffee cans also work, and you can use other colors). On a tray, we gathered numerous household items/toys in various shades of the colors of the cans (milk jug caps, toys, colored paper clips, gift bows, plastic easter eggs, fancy erasers, matchbox cars, etc). The children then sorted the items by putting them in the colored cans. The children absolutely love this activity and seem to never tire of it. Some of the children get a kick out of finding new objects to add to the sorting tray. I like how it also concretely teaches them how there are different shades of the same color and that colors are all around us.
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