Colors Everywhere!!!!

For the beginning of the school year my co-teacher and I decided on starting with the basics with our preschoolers by starting with letters, number, shapes and colors. The first area we concentrated on was colors, we read the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?, and from there the children were able to write their own book page for our class version of the story. We titled our Preschool 2C, Preschool2C What do you see?

 

The children also had the use of word cards for each of the animals that included a picture of the illustration from the book and the words so they could write out the animal he/she chose for their class book page.

 

 

I also decided that it may be helpful to some of the children in my class if there was a Color Wordbook available to them at the writing table. This way if a children wanted to practice writing a certain color word all he/she would have to do is flip through the book and find the color he/she wanted to use. Not only is the background of each page the color word, but each color word is printed in that color (example, red is in red font and so on).

 

 

After completing the week with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?  We continued the color theme in the classroom but turned to making a class piece of artwork (to add to the canvas art collection in our cubbie area) This time we decided to do the crayon melt project that everyone is talking about from Pinterest. I took crayons (with the wrappers still on) and hot glued them to a piece of canvas in a design I thought the children would find interesting.  The day we melted the crayons all 20 children were given the opportunity to hold the hair dryer and help get the crayons to melt. Below you will see the progression of our beautiful piece of artwork!

 

 

Another item we added to the classroom to help the children with their colors was a clear party tray from the Dollar Tree. I took small pieces of paper to make the individual labels for each section and then just taped them on with packing tape, this way you can swap them out throughout the school year. Below you can see that the children were given 5 colors, and various magnetic letters to sort into the correct color section! This was placed on the shelf in our Math Area.

 

The last color activity i want to share is quick and easy sun catchers. For this activity I used black construction paper and cut 20 half sheets. I then took each half sheet, folded it in half and cut out a rectangle in the middle. Once they were all cut our into a rectangular frame, I cut out a piece of contact paper that fit to the inside of each frame. The children were each given a frame and tissue paper to decorate the clear contact paper with. Below is a picture of the finished product! (Great last minute activity!)