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Subject: RAINBOW COLORS
Key terms: rainbow, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink
Materials and preparation: computer or tablet, scissors, glue, colored paper (blue, red,
yellow, orange, green, purple, pink, white), markers, fingerpaints
You might need (look below): flour, water, salt, food color, paper plates.
Learning objectives: Learn the rainbow colors, identify and distinguish orange, purple, pink and green.
➤ Introduction
In order to test the knowledge and memory of your children, show some flashcards with
the colors and ask if they know each of them. Use any color flashcards you can find online. You
can also draw your color splash and ask from your child to paint it for each color.
➤ SongIn the link below you can find the rainbow song where colors are introduced in order one
by one. Help the children to sing and repeat the colors. It is necessary to watch the video so
the children can match the name of the color with the picture of it. If you don’t have access to a screen, you can sing the song and show each time the right flashcard with the called color.
➜https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRNy2i75tCc
RED
ORANGE
YELLOW
GREEN
BLUE
PURPLE
PINK
➤E-book
This online book with no description pictures is very interesting and small. It is about color
orange and how it is made. The challenge is your children to see the pictures and try to
describe what is happening in the story using their imagination. Support their thoughts
and encourage their attempt to develop their speech.
➜https://freekidsbooks.org/bow-meow-wow-wordless-picture-book/
➤Arts & Crafts
1. All of us are so happy when we see a rainbow! What about creating one? The materials you
need are scissors, glue, a white A4 or paper plate cutted in half, markers and colored papers
(red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and pink - if you want) or tissue paper can work as well.
You and your children can practise cutting the papers with scissors or you can tear them apart in small pieces. Do not forget to draw curved lines with colored markers to make a rainbow so as
the kids can see and follow where they have to place the right color and stick the paper.
2. Another idea is to create colored water using your recycled bottles. Fill them till the middle and
throw some pieces of crepe paper in and wait a few mintutes for it. Shake bottles and ready to play.
You can also try to mix some colors.
3. Another way, more sensory, to create a rainbow is to paint it with the hands! Activities like this
is children’s most favorite! All you need is a white piece of paper and finger paints. Again you can
help by drawing the colored lines in order for the kids to use them as a driver to paint with finger
dots. Moreover, if you have a very large paper you can even use handprints and make a family craft all together! Get ready for the mess, it’s ok!😃😅
Alternative
In case you don’t have finger paint, there is a solution. Make your own!
↪INGREDIENTS:
-½ cup of flour
-½ cup of water
-¼ cup of salt
-¼ cup of salt
-food coloring
👉Mix the flour with the salt and the color with the water separately.
Add the liquids in the solids and stir very well. Ready!
➤Educational online games
It is time for your children to experience the numerous potentials there are on the Internet using
a computer or tablet. Here are two options of an educational software I can suggest, very easy
to use with your help of course.
👉Mix the flour with the salt and the color with the water separately.
Add the liquids in the solids and stir very well. Ready!
➤Educational online games
It is time for your children to experience the numerous potentials there are on the Internet using
a computer or tablet. Here are two options of an educational software I can suggest, very easy
to use with your help of course.
⧫http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/preschool/colors/colorgame.htm
In this game you have 5 colored frames and many pictures on top classified by color, which you have to drag and drop in the right frame. Be a model for your child and show how to do it. You can ask to name the color of the item that is dragged everytime.
⧫http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/preschool/ngames/colors.htm
This game is about sorting items by color blue, red, yellow, orange, purple and green. You
are helping a colored monster to tidy up so it’s going to be funny for the children.
➤Action game
You can play a simple and energetic game using the flashcards that you have already.What you have to do is to spread around the house the colored flash cards.After that explain to your children that they have to go and find the color you call and do an action you prospose.You can use a little song to make it funnier like: “Where is red? Where is red?Go to the red, go to the red”. Like this they can match what they hear with what thesee working on the visual and hearing perception. Every time they find a colored card, suggesta different movement for the color. For example 'Jump on the red, clap on thegreen, sit on the pink, tap your knees on the blue, hop on the orange, spin on the purple'
