Colors are one of the most fun preschool topics to explore! We came up with a simple snack and orange craft idea to teach preschoolers the color orange that is sure to make you smile. Orange Snack for Preschool oranges googly eyes edible food markers glue or glue dots Making healthy food fun is a great way to get kids excited about eating it. We turned our oranges into people and since we just decorated the skin they were still … [Read more...]
20+ Color Activities for Kids
There are so many ways to make learning colors fun for kids! Cooking, games, crafts and art activities can all be used to help kids explore and learn about colors. I'm thrilled to have Carolyn from The Pleasantest Thing here today with more than 20 color activities for kids! I'm so excited to be visiting Coffee Cups & Crayons today! This website always has such wonderful colorful activities, I thought I'd share a few of our favorite ways to … [Read more...]
Color Scavenger Hunt {free printable}
We have been busy doing lots of rainbow and color activities lately. One of our favorites is a color scavenger hunt! It's one of those activities that gets kids moving outdoors with very little prep so is perfect to do anytime. It's also fun for kids of all ages to do so a great one to pull out with multi-age groups! Color Scavenger Hunt Supplies: LET'S GO ON A COLOR HUNT! FREE PRINTABLE (download and print) Pencil Flat surface to … [Read more...]
Rainbow Toy Hunt
What do you get if you combine a rainbow and a scavenger hunt? A rainbow toy hunt! It's so much fun and a great way to practice colors with kids. Preschoolers love to move and learn and play with colors so a rainbow hunt is perfect for them! You don't need any special supplies, just walk around the house and look for toys. We go through the house and find different objects in the colors of the rainbow starting with red. As we walk around we … [Read more...]
Turkey Color Hunt and Math Pattern Activity
We went on a turkey feather color hunt to Move and Learn about colors and patterns! This one was super easy to set up and the kids can keep playing with it all month long. Color Hunt Activity: construction paper feathers in a variety of colors kids who are ready to move I cut a bunch of paper feathers out of construction paper and scattered them all over the yard. Then the kids ran around and collected them (like a bunch of turkeys who … [Read more...]
Rainbow Outdoor Games for Preschool
My kids love to get outdoors and play. Since my 3 year old has been rainbow obsessed this week and we decided to add some rainbow-ness into some of our traditional outdoor games and came up with three fun ways to play. Rainbow May I? My older kids are so happy that my 3 year old can finally really play Mother May I? with them! We had painted a bunch of rainbow plates and used one of them to make a rainbow hat for Rainbow May I?!!! I drew two … [Read more...]
Activities for Birds by Kevin Henkes
The author for this month's Summer Virtual Book Club for Kids is Kevin Henkes! (amazon affiliate link) We read lots of Kevin Henkes books this month and especially enjoyed the book Birds, which is beautifully illustrated by Laura Dronzek. The book may be simple, but it packed full of fun learning opportunities. In the story Henkes talks about what birds look like, what they do and what they could do. In the story Henkes talks about what … [Read more...]
Colorlicious Color Game
This month's challenge for The Little Book Adventure was to create a game based on a book. When I explained it to my 6 year old she immediately said, "Oh, let's do a game for Pinkalicious!" They decided that they wanted to make a game where the players pretended to eat food and then turned the color of the food. So that's what we did! They collected food in different colors and we made a color die to roll to decide which food to eat. To make the … [Read more...]