July 25-31: Black
Book Suggestions:Black by Micheal Dahl
Colors by Eric Carle
Colors by Simms Taback
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
Colors by Roger Priddy
My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss
Colors (Soft Shapes) by IKids
Activities:
Sorting:
Materials: jellybeans (or other candy with the color black)
Description: Give your toddler a handful for jellybeans and help them sort them into color groups. Put all the blacks together, all the red together, all the greens together etc. When they are finished sorting, count each group and talk about what group has more and less. You can extend this activity by drawing several oval shapes onto a piece of paper. Have your toddler color each oval the same colors as the jellybeans that they have. Now, they can place all the black jellybeans on the black oval, all the red jellybeans on the red oval etc.
Skills Targeted: sorting, counting, understand more or less, compare and contrast, develop beginning math skills, color recognition
Black Supplies:
Materials: black markers, black crayon, black paint, black colored pencil, charcoal etc.
Description: Give your toddler a variety of black art supplies and let them get creative coloring, drawing, and painting with the color black. Talk about what color they are using as they create. You can also see if your toddler can name some things that are black and try to draw them.
Skills Targeted: color recognition, encourage creativity, language development, motor skill development
Black Art Project:
Materials: different color crayons, black crayon, paper, toothpick or sharpened pencil
Description: Have your toddler color a piece of white paper with a variety of different colors (except black). Encourage them to color dark and to fill the whole piece of paper so that you can't see any white color. (you could cut the paper to make it smaller if your toddler is having a hard time filling the whole piece of paper). As your child uses each different color ask them to name the color they are using. Once the whole paper is colored, have your toddler use a black crayon and color over the entire piece of paper, covering all of the colors. Last, use a toothpick or sharpened pencil to write shapes, designs, letters etc into the black colored paper. As your little ones writes with the sharpened edge, the different colors with show through. It makes for a really neat art project.
Skills Targeted: motor skill development, color recognition, encourage creativity
Night Sky:
Materials: construction paper (white and black), scissors, glue
Description: Once it turns dark, take your toddler outside and look up at the sky. Ask your toddler to tell you what color the sky is at night. Talk about all the things that you see in the sky (stars, moon). Cut out stars and a moon from white construction paper. Ask your toddler to tell you what shape they are and have your little one glue all the shapes onto a piece of black construction paper. Count all the stars in your toddler's sky. You can even write the numbers on each star.
Skills Targeted: color recognition, language development, motor skill development, counting, shape recognition
Color Song:
Materials: construction paper, popsicle sticks, glue
Description: Cut out crayon shapes from different color construction paper. Glue each crayon to a popsicle stick and write the color word on each one. Sing the Color Song (found below) with your toddler. As you sing about each color, hold up the correct crayon.
Skills Targeted: color recognition, color word recognition
What Color?:
Materials: a variety of small toys or other objects of all different colors, shoe box, scissors
Description: Cut a hole in the lid of a shoe box, big enough for your toddler to fit their hand inside. Fill the box with a variety of different toys or other objects that are different colors. Have your toddler stick their hand into the box and pull out one object at a time, telling you what color each one is.
Skills Targeted: color recognition, motor skill development
Black Photos:
Materials: camera
Description: Give your toddler a disposable camera (or maybe they could help you use your camera). Walk around your house (inside and outside) and have your toddler take pictures of black objects. Print out their pictures. You can glue these pictures on a poster board, hang them on your refrigerator, or put them in a small 4 by 6 album for your toddler to look at all week.
Skills Targeted: color recognition, motor skill development, develop life skills
Zebra Painting:
Materials: white paper, black paint, q-tip
Description: Show your toddler a picture of a zebra. Have your toddler tell you what colors a zebra is. Cut out a zebra shape from construction paper. Have your toddler paint black stripes on the zebra using a Q-tip. As your toddler is painting the stripes, see if they can tell your what color they are using. They can also count the stripes.
Skills targeted: color recognition, motor skill development, enhance creativity
Songs and Fingerplays:
Color Song:
sung to the tune of Bingo
I had a box of crayons
One of them was blue
B-L-U-E
B-L-U-E
B-L-U-E
One of them was blue.
I had a box of crayons
One of them was black
B-L-A-C-K
B-L-A-C-K
B-L-A-C-K
One of them was black.
I had a box of crayons
One of them was yellow
Y-E-L-L-O-W
Y-E-L-L-O-W
Y-E-L-L-O-W
One of them was yellow.
Continue this song for a variet of colors.
Black, Black, Black:
Sung to the tune of Jingle Bells
Black, Black, Black
Black, Black, Black
I like black.
Cats are black
Bats are too
Black is pretty cool!
Black, Black, Black
Black, Black, Black
I like black.
The night sky is black.
Spiders are too.
Black is pretty cool!
Online Fun:
Coloring:
Visit www.coloring.ws for free printable coloring sheets.
Spiders
Bats
Cats
Videos:
Visit www.sesamestreet.org for fun videos.
Seven Cats
Thursday July 22 2010 - 16:31:59 by Corey
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