Help with colour theme??

[sarah32]

Im planning a colour theme.

I have a 2 year old that loves to tell me the colours of cars as we walk along but Im also including a 16 and 19 month olds as well.

Im trying to keep it simple and cover all 6 aspects of learning and development.

So far I have Mixing paints and see whats colours are produced. CD

Looking at different colours on a walk eg. colours of cars, trees, flowers, sky. KUW
Making a collage out of different coloured materials CD

Dying pasta and making necklaces CD
Dying rice in different colours CD
Go to library and look for books on colours
Colour or pain rainbows CD

Look at colourful animals or flowers KUW

and then Ive come to a dead end. I dont know what to put visit to library under and how to include the others I missed.

Please help, also let me know if Ive done any of the above wrong.

[sarah32]

Bit worried no ones replied, have I posted this in the right place.?????:(

[Annie_T]

how bou making a sheet up where they have to match the colour to the word .(you read word and ask them what colour has to go in the box nxt to it) if you follow me there

all i cxan think of hun, other than body parts blue eyes. red lips etc etc



unsure why no one replied hun

[sarah32]

thanks annie, good idea.:)

Hopefully the others will be along later with more ideas.

[miffy]

Some ideas here

www.preschoolexpress.com/theme_station.shtml

Miffy xx

[sarah707]

Sorry, I was about to answer this earlier and got distracted by a phone call :rolleyes:

Colour ... good stuff on here...

http://www.lethsd.ab.ca/mmh/grade1/colors/colors.htm

If you put 'red activities' into google, you get some hits... if you then put 'green activities' you will get more.

Also you'll get ideas for activities eg. 'red activities' comes back with 'The little red hen'; yellow activities might lead you all to use yellow paper, crayons, pencils, wrapping paper etc to decorate a submarine.

You can also link them with special occasions - this is not my idea, someone else came up with it...

So do St Patricks day with green, Halloween with black, arbor day (trees) with brown etc. :D

I will move you to 'activity ideas' where you might get more replies.

[miss mopple]

Counting how many cars of each colour you see as you are out and about- PSRN

Target game matching coloured bean bags to same coloured hoops/other targets-PD

Looking at different coloured fruit/veg and sampling it to see which they prefer- PSED

Books on colours- CLL

sorry but my brains gone numb now. Will try to think of more for you.

[sarah32]

Thanks miss mopple, thats brilliant.

Any more ideas would be great

[Straws]

I was thinking about doing colours only last week, another childminder suggested i use colour recognition boxes, You can pick up coloured plastic baskets very cheap

Straws xx

[PaulaR]

some kind of sorting game, sorting toys into colours for problem solving