Covid-19 fun plan at home

''Flash plan''

➥As you all know, these days we have a lot of extra time at home. We feel out of the ordinary
but let's stay positive and take advantage of this time to make more nice memories with our
family. In my turn, inspired of the theme project about colors, I will point out some of my
favourite STEM activities.


1. ICE PAINTS
You will need: water, ice cube tray, food coloring, popsicle sticks

Instructions
- Fill the tray with water, not till the top.
-Add a drop of food color to each cube. You can try to do some mixing too.
-Cut the popsicle sticks in half and stir the color. Leave the sticks in the tray for each cube.
-Freeze overnight. Ready to paint! Take them out and create a picture as the ice cubes melt
and colors reveal.
*Use a large water color paper so it lasts more.


2. OOBLECK
You will need: 2 cups of cornstarch, 1 cup of water, food coloring, a spoon, tray & bowl

Instructions
-Put the cornstarch in the tray.
-Add enough food coloring in the water so you have a vibrant color and stir in the bowl.
-Add the water in the cornstarch and mix it with a spoon. Once you have the desirable
consistency, you can add the figurines to play with.
👉Oobleck is called n0n-Newtonian fluid because it's neither liquid nor solid. Try to pick
up a clump of it and then watch it ooze back into the bowl. It's great fun for all ages.


3. COLOR VOLCANOES
You will need: baking soda, vinegar, food coloring, big tray, plastic cups/maffin tin, dish soap
(optional)

Instructions
You can choose to try this experiment outdoors or in your bathtub so you want use the tray
underneath.
*Put the cups in a line and add 3 tbsp at least in each. If you will use the tray 1 tbsp is enough.
*Add food coloring drops in each cup and try some color mixing too. For extra fizz you can
and a pump of dish soap. Give some vinegar to your children to pour in and get ready for the
''Woooow''! You will end up with the vinegar scent all around and a grey liquid from the color
mixing in your tray.😏


4. MAGIC MILK
You will need: a cup of milk, food coloring, dish soap, cotton swab

Instructions
*Fill the dish with milk 2cm deep.
*Dispense enough drops of different food colors all around the dish.
*Use a cotton swab soaked with dish soap and deep it in the middle. Watch how colors are
dancing away and play with it. It's a shock for the little ones.





5. COLORFUL STORM
You will need: a jar, vegetable oil, a cup of water,food colouring, fizzy tablet

Instructions*Fill the jar about half with vegetable oil and add a cup of water.
*Drop different food colors in the jar and watch how slowly they are reaching the bottom.
*Once you are down with the colors, drop the tablet in the jar and watch the storm you created.

➥''Very simple but extremely exciting activities that don't need much to take you out of your
midday boredom.

Hope you try and enjoy them! ''
SM

Lesson_Plan: Colors_3

Our plan for today!

''Dear parents & children, 

Today is the last lesson about colors, so we are going to revise, learn the rest of them and do some mixing to create colors.''

Subject: Color mixing

Key terms: black, gray, white, brown, mix
Materials and preparation: computer/tablet, lego duplo, printer, colorful pom poms, tempera paints, white paper/cardboard, flashcards, tods/spoon (optional), egg case/muffin tray, brushes or ear cleaners
Learning objectives: Introduce the colors black, white, gray and brown, mix them up and create lighter and darker colors.

➤Introduction
To begin with, we are going to use the flashcards introducing the new colors: black, white, brown, gray. Please keep the cards in your hands, show one by one all the colors and ask each time
what is the color. Give the card with the color every time they answer correctly. Like this you can
check which colors they know, reward them for the right answer, support and help them for the
wrong one, it’s ok.

➤Action game
We continue with the flashcards. Ask your children to lay all
the colors on the floor. You have to call one color at the time and they have to touch the right card.
After that, they have to take the card, find an object or a place in the house with the same color
and place it there. So now you have a matching activity. Meanwhile, you can work on some
vocabulary by naming the objects they leave the card on, like brown door, yellow lemon, etc.
Be careful not to overload your kids with information.
*Note: You and your child can create your own moves for color black, white, gray and brown because they are not included. Use your imagination! Have fun!

➤Sing n' dance
Get ready to sing and dance! You can watch or listen to this music video and follow
the moves. ⇒https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EWNNpHYcss
Lyrics:
-Wave your arms if you like red, red, red, red!
-Stomp your feet if you like yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow!
-Clap your hands if you like pink, pink, pink, pink!
-Shake your body if you like green, green. green, green!
-Play guitar if you like purple, purple, purple, purple!
-Spin around if you like orange, orange, orange, orange!-Jump up & down if you like blue, blue, blue, blue!
➤Fine motor activity
I hope that you all have some colorful pom poms at home. This activity is about color
sorting. Put all the pom poms in a bowl/box and give your child a spoon or a safe tool
like tongs to grab the pom poms. They will love it. You also need a muffin tray or an egg
case and color each egg place with different color. Use markers, temperas, even colored
stickers if you have. The kids have to transfer successfully the pom poms in the right place.
*Note: If you don’t have pom poms, you can use lego bricks the same way or colored crepe paper balls.

➤Lego constructions
All you need is lego bricks and your creativity to make color pattern so the kids can follow
the sequence. They have to follow the pattern of the colors and place the right brick.
⇛First of all, let’s warm up by building simple towers by color-red tower, yellow, blue, etc.
Now you can continue gradually with 3-4 bricks combinations and use more later. You can put
them in a line or one on top of the other. The combinations are numerous. Instead of lego bricks
I’m using below hearts just to show you.
Example 1.💙💚💙💚💙_ What color comes after? Find the right brick. Make clear to the children
what they have to do. You can make the sequence as long as you want.
💓💙💛💓_ _
💛💙💜💛💙💜_ _ _

Example2.
Put many colours and ask your child to repeat the same tower.
💓    💚
💙    💙
💚    💚
💛    💙
💜
↠It is a very good activity to develop their eye perception and coordination skills.

➤Arts & Crafts
It is time for some mixing! Use an A4 page and draw some circles like this O + O= O. Use tempera paints, one color in the first circle, another one in the second and both of
them in the third. Otherwise, you can just mix them together in the middle of the 2 circles. You can use small brushes or ear cleaners for fun (they are small and soft to use)!
💥Note: Do not forget to highlight the mixing with white and black! Ask you children what
they think it’s going to happen if they mix a color with white and what is going to happen if
they mix it with black. Then, prove them how the colors are becoming lighter by adding white and darker by adding black. Use a few colors to test it.

⤿ Let the children use all of these new colors that you have created and paint a freestyle picture to express themselves.



''I hope you liked the color project! See you soon with a new one!''
SM

Lesson_Plan: Colors_2

Our plan for today!

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

-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.

⧫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'

Lesson_Plan: Colors_1

Our plan for today! 

👉All our occupation plans include crafts and activities for which you are going to use simple materials that you already have in the house. Sometimes you might have to print or you can create what you need on your own. Feel free to use an alternative way and adjust the activity to your preference and availability. After all, it's only about fun!😀

Materials and preparation: Toys, computer or projector to play songs and videos, crayons or markers, art paper(red, blue, yellow, white), printer, scissors, glue, flour, water, food color, cream of tartar (optional) 

Key terms:  red   yellow  blue

Learning objectives: Revising the primary colors so the children will be able to name, identify and separate the three basic colors - red, blue and yellow.

 ➤ Introduction

Select  any three toys from the kids’ room - one red, one blue, one yellow. Cut 3 circles of red, blue and yellow paper and place them on the floor. In case you don’t have colored paper, you can draw 3 circles on white paper and color it with your children. Then ask ‘What color is the toy?’. They might answer correct, if not it’s ok. Repeat the question for each of the toys and name the colors. Ask them to put the toy on the right circle according to the color. 

 ➤Song

The next step is to click on the following link where you are going to watch a small video  with the three colors being introduced. You can repeat also the colors and motivate your child to name loud and clear the colors. ➢https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iev1wgRVdwo  

*If you don’t / can’t watch it, you can only listen to it and raise up each time the right color circle. After this, the three colors will be more clear in the child’s mind. 

➤ Independent  practice

It’s time to play and and have fun! Count till 20 and ask the kids to go and find one red toy, one blue and one yellow and place them again on the right circle. If they need more time, you can count again. Alternatively, you can count till 10 for each color - toy separately. Repeat the game till you run out of toys!

Something that children adore to do is using the play dough, especially when they make it! With your help we are going to make easy homemade play dough that you can preserve in the fridge for a week at least in a plastic bag! The best part is that we are going to color it with food colors and make it even funnier. The ingredients are simple, you have them in your kitchen more or less, and the procedure very easy, so please follow up.

Ingredients

*1 cup of plain flour

*½  cup of salt

*1 tablespoon of cream tartar (optional)

*½  cup of water

*1 tablespoon vegetable oil

*4 drops of food color {If you don’t have food color you can use liquid paint like tempera}

Instructions

*Mix together the flour, salt and cream of tartar. 

*Mix together ½ cup of water with a few drops of food coloring and the oil with a spoon. 

*Slowly pour the water into the flour mixture, stirring as you pour. Stir until combined, then knead with your hands until the flour is completely absorbed. If the dough is too sticky, add more flour until it doesn’t stick at all.

 *Repeat process for other colors you want to make. 

* Notes *Mixing the food coloring with the water before combining with the dry ingredients allows you to blend them by stirring, without staining your hands.

➽ You have so many ways to play with the dough. You can make shapes, sculptures and freestyle creations, you can use your cookie cutters, you can provide your children with materials like buttons, straws, etc. by color and dip them in the right dough or let them play on their own free way as long as they want. I’m sure it will take long! BE SURE TO ALWAYS KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR CHILDREN AND CHECK THEY PLAY SAFELY.

➤E-book

Here is a free online illustrated book based on the colors we are working on today. 

https://www.storyberries.com/bedtime-stories-the-little-yellow-monster-short-stories-for-kids/

This story is about a little furry yellow monster that lives inside a sock and all the fun he has with his friends. It discusses a nice message about friendship.

➤Arts & Crafts

All you need for this activity is to find some pictures of items that naturally have the colors red, blur, yellow and print them. However, if you don’t possess a printer, you can sketch them handmade on a A4 white paper. Give to your children red, yellow and blue craft paper and ask to tear them apart in small pieces. Give them some glue to use and stick the right color pieces inside the lines. Your collage is ready.

(*RED APPLE *YELLOW SUN *BLUE DOLPHIN)

‘Hope you liked it. Stay tuned for the next lesson plans about colors!’

SM