Welcome to the Color of the Week Series here on Play Create Explore! Recently my youngest son "B" (19 mo) surprised me by identifying a few colors on his own when I admittedly hadn't worked with him that much on his colors so I wasn't aware he was picking it up so well! After that, I decided that we would focus on one color each week, with several color themed activities. During our color weeks, we will NOT be ignoring other colors, rather just a large focus will be on our chosen color. I will also be gently introducing the basics such as counting, and the alphabet and mixing these fundamentals in with our color activities. Because B was so cutely hooked on repeating the word "yellow," Yellow was our first Color of the Week! First, I simply gathered all the "yellow" toys and other random objects I could find, and I put all of it in a yellow bucket we had. We played with and explored this stuff all week long. We worked on identifying the names and shapes of the objects and of course saying the word "yellow" over and over..."yellow fish," "yellow ball, "yellow banana..." Our first sensory bin was simple. I used our yellow lemon scented epsom salt and threw in some of our yellow objects in a small plastic container. Again, not only did I repeat the word yellow, but I worked on identifying the names or shape of the objects, by just casually mentioning the words as B picked them up. See how to make your own scented and colored epsom salt, HERE I found the book 10 Little Rubber Ducks, by Eric Carle at our local library, which was obviously perfect because of the yellow ducks, but also because little B LOVES ducks! After we read the book 10 little ducks, I gathered a few of our rubber ducks and did another very simple sensory activity with a bit of water and yellow food coloring with a few more yellow objects thrown in. Water play is always such a hit! We did some simple yellow finger painting using washable paints. We did a simple yellow Easter grass sensory bin which he LOVED! His favorite part was snapping the strands of grass individually. They snapped fairly easy but made a really neat sound as they did. Yellow Bath We took a "Sunny Yellow" themed bath which was the perfect remedy for fun on a dreary winter day! Details -The paint on the walls was washable paint -I cut the shapes from sheets of yellow craft foam (which sticks to the walls when wet) -Some yellow balloons and other yellow toys -I added some yellow food coloring to the water -I also added some lemon essential oil but as soon as I did, it caused all my larger balloons to immediately burst, leaving only the smaller ones. (so weird!) -I also made some sunny yellow bath paint (see picture below) Our Sunny Yellow bath paint was simply made with Shaving Cream + Yellow Food Coloring + Lemon Essential Oil (you could use lemon extract as well) and I also stuck in some sunny happy face erasers we had. This bath paint smelled so fresh and definitely made me think of summertime! Just look at that happy face! :) We did another simple sensory bin with licorice scented dyed black rice and all the yellow magnet letters I could find from our collection. This was a very casual way to introduce and identify a few letters as well. You can see how I colored and scented the rice, HERE. I'll tell ya...the craziest thing happened. I sat my youngest (18 mo) down to play with this bin and he immediately picked up the lower case "e" and said "e!" I was like "whoa!" I dunno if it was by accident or what, but it was pretty crazy..and awesome! Our simple "Lemonade" sensory bin was a big hit for both boys. I used some fake ice cubes (which I found at Goodwill) and a few fake lemons from the dollar store, along with some yellow food coloring in some water scented with lemon essential oil (you can also use lemon extract). My oldest especially loved this, as he "sold" me many glasses of fresh lemonade. What else did we do? Here are a few other very simple ways we focused on "yellow" this week -We picked the books with yellow covers to read during storytimes. -The boys both wore yellow shirts one day this week -We found this super YELLOW themed song on Youtube that we played a billion and one times this week haha! See the song HERE -We at some "yellow" foods such as bananas, scrambled eggs, corn on the cob, and spaghetti squash. -We identified yellow ALL over the place. If something was yellow, I identified it and said it outloud. "The banana is yellow." "This book is yellow." "What color is your shirt? Your shirt is yellow!" You can never have too much repetition! However, we didn't leave out or ignore other colors though. In our everyday play I still identified other colors, I just put a lot of focus on yellow specifically! -We didn't get around to making yellow play dough this week, but colored play dough is easy to make and is a great sensory experience and fine motor activity for toddlers. Click HERE for a few different ways to make homemade play dough from the Imagination Tree! Ideas from others Here are a few other fun YELLOW ideas i've found! Beautiful Yellow Sensory Bin from Counting Coconuts Cornmeal Play Dough from Little Wonders' Days Yellow Waterbead Play from Carrots are Orange Lemon Sensory Sink from My Nearest and Dearest Question from a reader: I am wondering what your older son did while your 19 month old was playing with the sensory bin and the water bin? Did they play together? I have a 2.5 year old who definitely won't want to be left out, but am afraid she will "hog" the sensory items. Maybe I should make 2 of everything?! Yes, the boys usually played together. Although sometimes my oldest enjoys when my youngest has his "own" activities so he can freeplay for a bit without his brother knocking over his block castle or taking all the matchbox cars lol. There are also activities that I slightly adjusted for my oldest so he could participate on a higher learning level. There will be more of that in week 2 with Green, but for example with the black rice bin with the yellow letters...the boys did play together, but I focused on identifying the letters in the bin more with my 4 year old than the 18 month old while they played. A few times I have split up the sensory bin "ingredients" into two bins though which is easy to do and does seem to lessen the quarreling at times. Make sure you join me next Monday (3/11/13) as the Color of the Week Series continues with Green! More Ways to Follow the Fun!
Free printable colors theme preschool coloring pages. Coloring sheets with fun images of each color, a learning activity to learn colors.
Teach how to spell color words in kindergarten with color songs videos. I'll list the videos and l share how I taught a few of them with great success.
Here's a fun worksheet for young ESL learners to practice the days of the week.
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Let's learn the names of the days in a week. A colorful rainbow 🌈 days of the week chart for wall or on table display.
Days of the Week Centers (Updated: June 2017) These are great little centers or independent activities that can be used through the year to teach days of the week or to reinforce learning. Here is what is included: {1} Letter cards to spell the days of the week. The boarders are different colors for each day. (larger size/colored) These work great in a pocket chart but can easily be used on a table or on the floor. {2} Letter Cards to spell the days of the week: (smaller size/black and white) Students can cut and glue in order to spell the days of the week or use these in a pocket chart also. Print on colored paper to save on ink but add a pop of color! {3} Ordering Cards ( 3 Sets!!) These are flash cards that can be used for ordering the days of the week. Works great also for learning to identify the words. {4} 12 Days of the Week Question Cards What day comes before Saturday? What day comes after Tuesday? A recording sheet is included. {5} Cut and Glue Ordering Cards: Black and White to save on ink.. Students cut and glue in order. This is an easy interactive notebook follow-up activity. {6} 6 Story Problem Cards using the days of the week. A recording sheet is included. This is a great math center activity. {7} Print and Go Printables: Works great for morning work, early finisher activities, homework or simple as a quick assessment. Be Sure to download the preview to see more! xoxo, kacey
Welcome back to the Color of the Week Series here on Play Create Explore! We've been having so much fun with our color themed weeks! To see our previous Yellow and Green Weeks, click HERE. I've been letting my oldest son "L" choose which color we do each week and for our 3rd week, he chose RED. Lot's of fun with red this week! Red Objects Exploration Bin The first thing I did was simply gather some of the red toys and kid friendly objects in the house and put them into a large red bowl. We explored this bowl all week long. We focused on the color of course, but also worked on identifying the names of the objects. Red Aquarium Gravel Sensory Bin I made a super simple red aquarium gravel sensory bin. I bought a 5 lb bag at Petco for less than 5 dollars I believe. I will be going back for more aquarium gravel because the kids loved this! I guess you can't go wrong with tiny colored rocks! Lipstick Rubbings I did learn something this week...red lipstick does NOT look smart, sexy, and sophisticated on EVERYONE. So, my red lipstick was donated in the name of art! Click the title link above to see the fun my oldest had with my red lipstick! Red Food Exploration Bin We have lots of fake plastic foods so I gathered all of our red foods and put them together. I sat with little B and worked on identifying each food while also saying the color "red apple" "red tomato" etc. Red Apple Themed Bath A is for Apple and our Apple Bath was RED! Our color themed baths have been such a fun part of our color weeks and this one was simple and fun for both boys! Our color weeks are generally for learning colors with my 19 month old, but I've been really trying to add elements of higher learning whenever possible to engage and involve my oldest (4 yrs) as well. I painted the apple trees with washable paint and taped some apple bulletin board cutouts that I already had to the walls. to the bath water I added 1 packet of red koolaid which smelled sooooo delicious! FYI it did not stain either the tub nor the kids skin. I also added some dollar store fake red apples and some red balloons. For that extra learning element for my oldest (4) I cut some red circles out of craft foam and the numbers 10-20 to part of them, and the letters a-p-p-l-e to some of them as well. I've been working with him on learning to recognize these numbers as well as spelling and recognizing lower case letters so this was both fun and educational! FYI: Craft foam sticks to tub walls and windows when wet so it makes really fun (and cheap) bath stickers! Rice and Red Miniatures Sensory Bin Who doesn't like miniatures?! We do lots of small world setups because the minature factor is so appealing. I realized that I had quite a few tiny red objects floating around in the crafts so I gathered these things and added them to a bucket of dry rice. The kids loved picking through this one and this is where my youngest was introduced to the "ladybug." Painting Ladybugs After playing with the sensory bin above and my youngest first being introduced to what a "ladybug" is, I thought we'd paint a ladybug. I had a small wooden square with a ladybug painted on it and I gave this to my oldest, along with some red, black, and white paint. I thought it would be interesting to see how or even IF he would look at the painted ladybug as a reference and I believe he did because this painting is the first "lifelike" painting he's ever done. I thought it turned out great! I let my youngest finger paint with red first, and then gave him a round sponge-tipped brush to dab some dots on the paper, to create his "abstract ladybug" lol. Kidney Beans Sensory Bin A simple sensory bin with red kidney beans kept my little one busy for quite some time! For an added sensory bin play element and some fine motor skills and hand/eye practice, I cut a small hole in the lid of a sour cream container. It was really interesting to watch how he decided to put the beans into the hole. He would grab a bunch of beans and put them on the lid, then pushed each bean one by one into the hole with 1 finger. Lots of concentration going on! Red Rose Scented Play Dough Click the link above to see how to make this sweet and floral smelling play dough, which also has therapeutic benefits as well! We played with our Red Rose Scented Play dough throughout the week! Red Letters and Rice Sensory Bin Both boys played with this sensory bin, but i'm currently working on identfying lowercase letters with my oldest so I used threw in some of our red magnetic letters into some dry rice. Each uppcase letter had it's lowercase match as well. This bin was a fun way to practice matching up the upper and lower case letters with L (4), but little B just liked playing in the rice and scooping out the letters. I did however call out the name of the letter when he grabbed one. Red Construction Paper Squares Exploration Bin I used the red squares from our Construction Paper Squares Rainbow Sensory Bin, to make this simple red themed exploration bin for "B." B had fun throwing handfuls up in the air and also putting the pieces into red plastic cups. This is also a great way to introduce or reinforce the SQUARE shape! It would take more time, but you could cut other shapes from construction paper and make the same sort of bin. What else did we do? Here are a few other very simple ways we focused on "red" this week --We identified red ALL over the place. If something was red, I identified it and said it outloud. "The apple is red." "This book is red." "What color is your shirt? Your shirt is red!" You can never have too much repetition! However, we didn't leave out or ignore other colors though. In our everyday play I still identified other colors, I just put a lot of focus on red specifically! -We read our books with red covers -We picked a day to wear red shirts -We ate red foods such as red apples, red grapes, strawberries and spaghetti -We listened to THIS " red themed" kindergarten song on Youtube. -We went outside to count as many "red birds" (cardinals) as we could find. -you could do some Red Apple Printing Ideas from others Red Waterbeads Sensory Bin from AtoZini Redbird Handprint Art from The Celebration Shoppe Paper Plate Ladybug Craft from No Time for Flashcards Exploring the Color Red from LalyMom To see ALL of our Color of the Week Series, click the photo below! More Ways to Follow the Fun!
A blog about how to properly combine colors and how to use a color wheel with different tints, tones, and shades.
DAYS of the WEEK Printable Wheel, Yesterday Today Tomorrow Activity, Montessori Calendar Practice, Homeschool Printable, Preschool Game Make learning the days of the week fun for kids with this colorful and easy to use wheel. For multiple uses, laminate both pages and attach the wheel to the center of the "Days of the Week" page. Use a brad pin for for best results - this will allow the colorful wheel to spin and line up with the proper days. You child or student will be able to practice the current day of the week, as well as "yesterday was" and "tomorrow will be" by visually being able to see how they line up next to each other. This printable is great for calendar practice, visual schedules, circle time, morning routine, etc. Use it with your preschool and kindergarten aged kids, or even in a special education classroom. You can pin it to your classroom bulletin board or use it in classroom centers for the kids to manually manipulate. The options are endless! Included you will find 2 high resolution pages (PDF) for you to print at home or send to a print shop. BONUS: I have also included a matching Days of the Week tracing page for your child to start practicing writing the days of the week! Paper size: 8.5in x 11in Due to monitor differences and printer settings, colors may vary slightly on your printed items. These pages are not to be used for commercial use. GREAT TIP: Laminate each page for multiple uses! REMINDER: This is a digital download. No physical products will be shipped to you. Following your purchase, you will receive an email from Etsy with the link for downloading the file. RETURNS/REFUNDS/PROBLEMS? Due to the digital nature of the product, returns and refunds will not be possible. Should you have any problems with the download, please don't hesitate to reach out.
Learning about colors or the days of the week? Download this color wheel printable to play games to help your children match and remember sequences. This download is available free to all NurtureStore members
Welcome to Week 12 of my Color of the Week series! This week’s color is So Saffron, which is part of the Subtles color family. I am sharing a color each week this catalog year, so after you read all about So Saffron head over to this section of the blog. Make sure to
Link to all the Color Unit resource for English Language Learners: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Color-Worksheets-for-Preschool-ELL-2732959 Also available at this other store: https://www.bilingualmarketplace.com/products/color-unit-for-kindergarten-ell?variant=37366549741732 Color Theme flashcards to play some games that are around this blog. The flashcards are wonderful for introducing the new vocabulary. And more worksheets ! Worksheet 1 and 2. Only 6 six colors in each worksheet. The children color the splotches and then trace the word. After, have them make a book to take home. I made it as an acordion book. Remember to use these as flashcards first. For the other colors,do a clasifying or sorting activity. I took out my old puncher and made these splotch kind in cardboard. I cut out all the cards from the worksheet and made a color mat on construction paper. Sorting the colors requieres logical thinking. Worksheet . I saw this craft idea of wrapping with yarn, I had never done it before and thought it would be nice to try. I found it easy and fun. After coloring each crayon , hand in a somewhat long string of yarn and have the children go around the crayon in the same color. Make a small knot in the back when they are done. And , before you start, attach tape to the yarn so it won´t move. Worksheet 3. A little review of previous lessons. Teacher: Show me a crayon. (Students point to the crayon. ) Color the crayon red. After coloring, I have the children cut and paste their picture onto colored craft sticks. Let them dry and cut apart. They can have fun putting all the school objects together. Worksheet 4. I found these cute monsters to color and create patterns. Have the children color each pattern line as you direct them. Teacher: red monster, orange monster, red monster, orange monster Then have the children cut all the monsters and glue them onto yogurt caps which are usually larger than the bottle caps. They can create patterns on their desks with their group. Students: blue, blue, yellow, yellow. Worksheet 5 and 6. Some cute pencils to color accordingly. And after the worksheet is done, children cut them out. Play some games with the individual crayons. Give them a big construction paper and have them glue the crayons where they belong. Worksheet 7. Children color the sloptch with their favorite color. As them: What is your favorite color? Then make a bar graph using the splotches either on the floor, the wall or on the board. I made the splotch in black and white so you can print onto colored paper or cardboard to save ink. Or there is a set that you can color yourself or the children. Worksheet 8. All schools have a set of colors that identifies them. Ask the children about it. Link to the Letter Arts and Crafts collecions, there is a section for colors. http://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2017/09/letters-arts-and-crafts-collection.html Two blog posts related to the Color Unit, for more ideas and activities. http://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2010/04/color-theme.html http://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2011/06/color-theme-second-edition.html This resource is part of the Colors unit BUNDLE. LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Colors-Unit-BUNDLE-for-ESL-6825443 Subscribe to my newsletter with all the freebies of the week to teach Kindergarten English Language Learners. You can download them now! CLICK here: https://mailchi.mp/bb5fba0a974f/three-words-it-is-free Follow me!
One of our Classroom Learning Center Accessories. This is a download in a ZIP file. Here is what you get! Candy themed Weekly Focus Bulletin Board Set. This set includes: Letter of the Week Number of the Week Color of the Week Shape of the Week Sight Word of the Week Book of the Week Today's Weather 6 Weather Cards 3 Temperature Cards 10 Color Cards 12 Shape Cards Prints a total of 7 pages. Designed and produced by the owner of Teach At Daycare in Arkansas City, Kansas. Use a combination of our many educational games, flash cards, and accessories to teach young children in a daycare or home school setting. Please see our other items in our store. We always have full curriculum sets, new games, sight word flash cards, and more! Thank you for visiting.
These free printable Days of the Week worksheets are a must have for your calendar lesson plan! Students will learn the order of the week, how to spell it, what the abbreviations are and so much more!
Welcome to Week 6 of my Color of the Week series! This week’s color is Highland Heather. It is one of our new colors from the recent Color Revamp and is found in the Subtles Color Family. If you want to see all the color posts I will be sharing throughout the year, head over
Free Days of the Week printables, activities, worksheets, and ideas to help your students learn the days of the week in English and Spanish! Learning the days of the week in order is simple when you pair our engaging days of week charts, alongside our days of the week song and printable flashcards and activity pages. Start off each morning circle time with these helpful tools and your preschool and kindergarten students will know their days of the week in no time!
Happy 4th of July! Today's color of the week - Blueberry Bushel - is perfect for today. It is the perfect blue for patriotic cards and decor (and now I'm wondering why I didn't make today's card a patriotic one). This is Week 5 of my Color of the Week series and the final 2018-2020 In Color
These free printable Days of the Week worksheets are a must have for your calendar lesson plan! Students will learn the order of the week, how to spell it, what the abbreviations are and so much more!
Learning about colors or the days of the week? Download this color wheel printable to play games to help your children match and remember sequences. This download is available free to all NurtureStore members
Every year, at the beginning of Kindergarten we begin learning the color words. If you are like me you own the color word CDs and sing them over and over until you can't stop. Then you sing them at home, in the shower, in your head all the time! The good news is: They work! Kids learn how to spell their color words very easily when they learn it in song. (Funny, that actually works for almost anything.) I was growing tired of my old color word poem charts in my classroom and decided to make new ones. I thought I would share. Enjoy! They are a FREEBIE!
