Colors. Colors!!

During the month of September we focus on and review colors.  It's a fun and simple way to ease the 3 year olds into preschool and make sure they know the basic colors while we are still focusing on school rules and procedures.

Our sensory bin consisted of lots of color sorting bears with matching color cups, kids tweezers, and color pom-pom's

 We danced around with streamers while listening to "I'm Blue" by Eiffel 65

I had the children sort toys and random objects onto my giant sorting mat by color.  My mat is just a giant piece of Flannel I got at Hobby Lobby and circle shaped flannel pieces I made from colored flannel squares. 

For this game You just match the ice-cream topper to the cone with the same colored circle on it.  I made this with flannel and iridescent colored puffy paint to give it a fun and sparkly texture and feel. 

We do LOTS of color mixing at Morning Light Preschool.  We just do!  I can't help myself, it is just so much fun and educational and awesome-oh and the kids LOOOOOVE color mixing!  

For Corn Syrup Mixing I just give them a dab of corn syrup on a mini-paper plate (I fill the center).  I then give them each a drop of the primary colors red, blue and yellow to experiment mixing using a large craft toothpick (regular ones would work just fine too).  I just like the large size for the little ones and I have a bunch of them.  Then I let them mix away and as you can see by the final brownish/black colors they did!  It makes some really interesting designs. We let them dry and the kids had fun observing them for a couple weeks.  

This one is just milk and food coloring.  We mixed with the craft toothpicks again and this makes a BEAUTFUL design!  

To review the colors blue and yellow we made blue & yellow AB patterns using M & M's . We got to eat them of course too!

 We sang the Rainbow Song and used our Rainbow flags. 

 Lots of Coloring this month.

 We Sang Dr. Jean's Gummy Bear song and made it interactive by having the kids pay with the penny and put the right colored bear up on our flannel board. 

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