A Colorful Storytime

This week's Summer Reading theme was colors!  Exploring colors with children is always fun...but sometimes it's hard to narrow down all the fun options! (however, I forgot my camera...again!)

Books

Dog's Colorful Day by Emma Dodd

Monsters Love Colors  by Mike Austin

Songs/Rhymes/Fingerplays

See this post for repeating songs

Little Fox, Little Fox
Little Fox, Little Fox come out and play!
What color box are you in today?
(see at the end of this post for a picture of this activity)

Bop till you Drop (Greg and Steve)  with scarves

Little Boy Blue
Little Boy Blue come blow your horn
The sheep's in the meadow
The cow's in the corn
Where is the boy who looks after the sheep?
He's under a haystack, fast asleep.

Color Shapes
Colored shapes cut out of felt to make a very simple flannel board.

Red Triangle, red triangle what do you see?  I see a purple circle looking at me.
Purple circle
Blue rectangle
Orange square
Green oval
Yellow star

Play and Learn 

Skittles Colors!
This was a very fun experiment...with just one little spill!  The kids were amazed!

Dog (from Dog's Colorful Day) craft
Glued colorful pom-poms onto dog...from Sunflower Storytime

 

Little Fox, Little Fox
Even the older children enjoyed playing this guessing game with each other and their younger siblings!

Colorful beads and blocks