|
| |
|
|
Color: Discuss the various
aspects of color with the kids as listed below...
o
Identification of colors (Black, white, yellow, purple, blue,
red, green, orange…)
o
The spelling of
colors. The spelling of items that are a particular color,
or that begin with the same letter, and have the same beginning
letter sound: Red-rose, orange-orange, green-grass, etc.
o
Facets (patterns, stripes, polka dots, checks, texture,
layers, lines, size, trace…)
ACTIVITY:
Play
the song and have the children find the colors around the room
or in the hallway. Enhance the song, and have them
complete an action that is assigned to each color.
ACTIVITY:
Have children cut (or
tear) out these foods on
Template 15 , in a magazine, or grocery
store advertisements, and tape or paste them on a blank sheet of
paper to build their own food pyramid or on a paper plate to
make their own lunch or dinner collage.
o
How is color applied (crayon, paint, paintbrush, chalk, pen,
pencil, fingers, charcoal…)
o
What happens when you mix colors? red + blue = purple,
blue + yellow = green, yellow + red = orange, red + green =
brown, green + yellow = lime green, blue + green = blue/green,
red + white = pink, white + black = gray.
ACTIVITY:
Have the children toss bean bags onto different colors, and then
mix the 2 colors that the bags land on with their own paint.
What colors are made?
o
Shades (light, dark, soft, or with reference to an
object...example for blue: turquoise, sky, ocean... )
o
Experience (clothes, shoes, food, fruit, bedding, house,
floor, walls, furniture, car, school, animals…)
o
Characteristics (light/dark, bright, mixed, favorite,
happy/sad, scary/happy…)
o
Used as Form of Expression
Dark = lonely, scared, tired,
bad guy, sad, sorrow
Light = wake-up,
breakfast, cheerful
Bright = party, fun, hot
Stripes = prison, brush teeth, circus
ACTIVITY:
Ask the
children paint how different emotions. Using only color, no
images, have them paint how they feel when they lose something.
- When they receive a present - When they are scared.
o
Seasons & Holidays (winter white - summer
yellow - red & white Christmas - blue, white & silver
Hanukah – red, white & blue 4th of July, orange
& black Halloween – rust, brown & red autumn – pink,
violet & yellow Easter)
Back |
|
children's music