"Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams."
- Paul Gauguin
- Paul Gauguin
Our world is made up of so many beautiful colors!! Colors are a wonderful way for children to naturally begin to describe, categorize, and shape the world around them. You can tell so much about life simply through colors: a green banana is not ready to eat; a red light means stop; a blue mark on skin means your body is healing from a bruise. Teaching children about colors is also a lovely way to introduce early math, science, and literacy concepts!
Check out how we explored our world around us this month through COLOR!
Check out how we explored our world around us this month through COLOR!
Color Identification
Nature color match
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Rainbow q-tip painting
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Color match collective collage art
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Colorful Creativity
Using primary colors to create secondary colors
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Creating our own color blends
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Finger painting
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Colors in Mathematics
Sorting by color
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Patterned bracelets -- mimic the patterns!
Or create your own pattern!
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Using colors to identify shapes
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Colors for Literacy Learning
We loved these books to explore more colors, expanding our vocabulary, and learning the elements of a story!
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Colored alphabet letters
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Color salt name recognition
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Verbal language color hunt -- "Go find YELLOW! ...GREEN! ...BLUE!"
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Circle time -- "What's your favorite color?" "Is there a color that you don't like?"
Science of Colors and Light
Absorption and color diffusion
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DIY color wheel
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When this color spinner is going fast enough it actually appears as white. White light is made up of all the colors of the rainbow!
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Light cube -- translucent and opaque?
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More light exploration!
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Mindfulness and Self-Regulation
Rainbow sensory rice bin
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Later on in the week we used the rainbow rice bin for a shape matching game!
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Emotions of color!
"Cobalt makes me feel tired." "Citron makes me feel happy!"
"Cobalt makes me feel tired." "Citron makes me feel happy!"
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Rainbow ABC yoga
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Anasazi Rainbow Salad
Mix together 1/4 cup olive oil, several pinches of sea salt, and the fresh juice of 1 lemon for the dressing. Pick a handful of fresh mint and Italian parsley from the garden. Combine together 2 cups cooked Anasazi beans, 1 small red pepper finely diced, 3 carrots cut in carrot flowers, 1/2 cup cooked sweet corn, 1/2 cup purple cabbage finely diced, and 1/4 cup fresh herbs finely diced. Pour dressing on top. Gently stir together, add a few more pinches of salt if needed. Serve with blue corn tortilla chips and seasonal fruit. Enjoy!
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See you next time!
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