Colors

Help your child place drops of food coloring in disposable dishes filled with shaving cream.  Let your child mix the following primary color combinations with their hands (red & yellow, red & blue, blue & yellow).  What colors does your child see?  Talk to your children about how combining two primary colors will make one secondary color.  Please note that food coloring may stain so dress your child accordingly.

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Reading Skills:
Choose a couple of these great books on color:  
Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni

What Makes a Rainbow?:  A Magic Ribbon Book by Betty Ann Schwartz

Dog's Colorful Day by Emma Dodd

Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh

White Rabbit's Color Book by Alan Baker

Creativity:

Color collages.  Set out 6 sheets of construction paper (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet) and label each one with the name of the color.  Allow your child to choose the colored paper of their choice.  Provide your child with a variety of craft objects (e.g., pom poms, tissue squares, buttons, etc.) in a variety of colors.  

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Help your child sort these objects by their color and allow them to glue the objects in their chosen hue to their corresponding sheet of colored paper.   

Nature:

Take your child outdoors and play I spy.  For example:  I spy something blue -- the sky!  I spy something red -- a ladybug!  I spy something green -- a leaf!

Snack:
Create a color wheel with fruits!  Place a few red strawberries, segments of an orange or cantaloupe, pieces of yellow banana or pineapple, slices of kiwi or honeydew melon, a handful of blueberries and some quartered black (purple) grapes on a white plate.

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