Color green activities for preschool
“QUICK STARTS” FOR GREEN
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GREEN COLLAGE PAINTINGS
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| SHADES OF GREEN
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GREEN 3-D SHAMROCKS
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| ADDITIONAL SHAMROCK ART Can be found at the Art Station. |
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GREEN TURTLES
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| GREEN FINGER PAINTING
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COUNTING JELLYBEANS
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| FROG COUNT
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GREEN PRINT SEARCH
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GREEN IS FOR “GO”
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| GREEN LEAF SORT Set out this fun shape sorting game for your children.
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| “I SPY” GAME Games like this help your children develop thinking skills.
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| MAKING GREEN With your children, try these experiments to discover what happens when blue and yellow are mixed together. 
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| ADDITIONAL GREEN DISCOVERIES Check out “Growing Green” at the Discovery Station, under Spring Activities. |
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GREEN SNACK IDEAS
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THERE’S A COLOR WE ALL KNOW There’s a color we all know, |
Serve after reading “Green Eggs & Ham”.
Child Care Lounge | Celebrate the Color Green Theme and Activities
March is the month for celebrating St.Patrick's Day and Spring.
There are plentiful resources for curriculum planning for these themes. Take on a new perspective and explore the color of the season with the children; celebrate green!
Make Things Green
Cornstarch Finger Paint
-3 T. sugar
-1/2 cup cornstarch
-2 cups cold water
-Food coloring
-Soap flakes or liquid dishwashing soap
Mix sugar and cornstarch in medium saucepan over low heat. Add cold water and stir until mixture is thick. Remove from heat. Divide into four or five portions (in muffin tins or cups). Add a drop or two of food coloring to each portion and a pinch of soap flakes or soap. Stir and let cool. Store in airtight container.
Green Playdough
-1 cup flour
-1 tbsp vegetable oil
-1 cup water
-1/2 cup salt
-2 T. cream of tartar
-Food coloring
Mix all ingredients in saucepan. Heat, stirring constantly until ball forms. Cool and knead until smooth.
Green Slime
2 Mixing bowls
-8 oz.
Glue
-1 T. Borax powder
-Green and Yellow food coloring
Combine 1 cup of cold water with 8 ounces of glue in a medium mixing bowl. Combine 1 tablespoon of Borax powder with 1/2 cup of hot water in a second bowl. Keep stirring until the Borax has dissolved. Add about 10 drops of green food coloring and 10 drops of yellow food coloring to the Borax mixture. Gradually add the hot Borax mixture to the glue-water mixture and stir about 30 seconds. Mix the ingredients thoroughly. In less than a minute, you'll have a gooey, non-sticky, stretchy slime. Store your slime in a plastic bag or airtight plastic container. The goop can keep for several weeks if placed in the refrigerator between uses. (source: Ehow.com.
Songs and Fingerplays About Green
"It's Not Easy Bein' Green"
Where is Green? (Give each child a paper cutout with a different color)
Teacher: Where is Green child, where is Green child?
(child with green paper stands and sings: Here I am, Here I am!)
Teacher: How are you today sir/maam?
Child: Very well I thank you.
All: Sit right down, Sit right down. (continue with the other colors)
If your Clothes Have Any (Tune: If You're Happy and You Know It)
If your clothes have any green on clap your hands...
continue with other colors
There's a color we all know (Tune: Old MacDonald Had a Farm)
There's a color we all know,
G-R-E-E-N.
It's the color that means "Go!"
G-R-E-E-N.
Oh, grass is green and lettuce is green,
Leaves and spinach and peas are green.
There’s a color we all know,
G-R-E-E-N.
5 Little Speckled Frogs
5 little speckled frogs sitting on a speckled log, eating the most delicious bugs - YUM, YUM!
One jumped into the pool where it was nice and cool.
Now there are 4 speckled frogs - GLUB, GLUB!
(repeat until no frogs are left)
Five Little Froggies
Five little froggies sitting on a well.
One looked up and down he fell.
Froggies jumped high, Froggies jumped low.
Four little froggies danced to and fro.
Four little froggies sitting on a well.
(continue until there are no little froggies left)
There Was a Little Turtle
There was a little turtle. (make a small circle with your hands)
He lived in a box, (make a box with both hands)
He swam in a puddle, (wiggle hands)
He climbed on the rocks. (climb fingers of one hand up over the other)
He snapped at a mosquito, (clap hands)
He snapped at a flea, (clap hands)
He snapped at a minnow, (clap hands)
He snapped at me. (point to yourself)
He caught the mosquito, (mimic catching a bug)
He caught the flea (same action)
He caught the minnow, (same action)
But he didn't catch me!
Make Green Treats
Magic Pudding
Place 1 tablespoon of pistacio pudding mix into a sterilized baby food jar for each child. Add 2 tablespoons of cold milk and watch as the contents turn green.
Have the children shake their jars (careful not to drop them) for about 45 seconds.
Green Fruit Dip
Combine equal parts of cream cheese and marshmallow cream. Add some green food coloring. Use as a dip for apples or other fruit.
Read About Green
- Blue Hat, Green Hat by Sandra Boynton
- Green Eggs and Ham by Dr.Suess
- Purple, Green & Yellow by Author Robert Munsch
Fun With Green
What Do You See?
In advance draw a teddy bear face onto several different colors of construction paper. Glue the bears onto craft sticks. During group time pass a bear out to each child. Chant the following rhyme: Green bear, green bear what do you see? The child or children with the green bear must stand up and identify something in the room that is green.
Sand and Water Table
Add green food coloring to water and freeze. Add green ice cubes to the water table.
Color uncooked rice with green food coloring for a change in the sand table.
Green Vegetable Prints
Provide an assortment of green vegetables cut in half(cucumbers, green peppers, green beans, celery, etc.) and allow children to dip vegetables in green paint and make prints.
Green Sensory Bag
Pour light corn syrup into a zip-lock bag. Add drops of blue and yellow food coloring, seal the bag, and let children move it back and forth to see the colors blend and turn green.
lesson for children 2-3 years old on the topic “Green | Plan-outline of the lesson (younger group):
Developing lesson for children 2-3 years old on the theme "Green"
Program content.
1. Learn to find and correctly name the color green. To form the grammatical structure of speech: the ability to coordinate an adjective with a noun in gender and number. Activate the vocabulary on the topic "Clothes".
2. Develop auditory attention.
3. Develop the ability to compare objects by color, identify patterns in color changes, lay out colored circles, alternating them by color.
4. Develop coordination of movements, the ability to perform the simplest dance movements to music, learn to put your foot on the toe and put it back.
Material.
"Green" doll, doll with a set of green and non-green clothes, colored lotto (green), paper Christmas tree, circle stickers for application, musical accompaniment for the "Christmas tree song" exercise session.
Course of the lesson
I. Examining the doll.
Teacher (shows a "green" doll Zina). Look who came to us today. What color is the coat on the doll, and the hat, boots? What color is the doll's hair?
Children. Green.
Teacher. This is a "green" doll, her name is Zina. Zina brought you a lotto.
II. Color lotto.
(Children take a card and say: “Green apple, green leaf, green tumbler, green berries.
”)
III. Looking at the tree.
Teacher. What else is green? There is also a green tree. Soon the New Year, and on this holiday they always put a green Christmas tree. We also have a Christmas tree (shows a paper Christmas tree). What is she?
Children. Big, beautiful.
Teacher. How is our Christmas tree decorated? (Children's answers.) Zina does not know how to decorate the Christmas tree, help her. If she names Christmas decorations, you must say: "Yes", and if she names something that is not hung on the Christmas tree, you must say: "No." And mothers will help you. (The teacher reads the poem, pausing after each line, the children say "Yes" or "No")
Multicolored crackers,
Blankets and pillows.
Beds and cots,
Marmalades, chocolates.
Glass balls,
Wooden chairs.
Teddy bears,
Primers and books.
Multicolored beads
And light garlands.
White cotton snow,
Backpacks and briefcases.
Shoes and boots,
Cups, forks, spoons.
Glossy balls,
Real tigers.
Cones are golden,
Stars are radiant.
IV. Application "The lights on the branches are different."
Teacher. The Zina doll is small, and her Christmas tree is small. Look what. She is also beautiful, fluffy, but there are no toys on her. Let's decorate the Christmas tree for Zina's doll. (Children stick stickers on the Christmas tree, alternating yellow and red circles in color.) This is what an elegant Christmas tree turned out for dolls.
V. Didactic game "Dress the doll".
Teacher. Doll Masha also wants to go dancing with us near the Christmas tree, she wants to put on a green outfit to look like a Christmas tree. (Children choose green clothes from the proposed clothes, dress the doll, pronouncing actions, naming items of clothing.)
games for children aged 3-4
Getting to know colors is one of the integral components of the program of developing activities with preschoolers.
Sometimes parents worry that three-year-olds answer “color” questions incorrectly, cannot cope with the proposed tasks, do not name shades and get confused in primary colors. We hasten to reassure you: you don’t have to worry, but it’s possible and necessary to offer interesting and useful games more often.
Principles of studying colors
Regularly, when communicating with a toddler, name the colors of objects around you at home, on the road, on a walk:
- green cucumber;
- red car;
- blue sky.
It's simple, but effective.
Periodically, as if in passing, ask the baby to bring something, indicating the color as a defining characteristic:
- give me a white cup, please;
- bring me a green balloon;
- please give me blue tights.
This is how you update the child's theoretical knowledge and offer to put it into practice.
To instill the skill of independent color matching, ask the child to choose a color without naming it directly.
For example:
- Pick up a blue pencil. Ask your child to find a marker of the same color.
- Before the walk, put a few T-shirts in front of the child and ask him to choose a sun-colored T-shirt.
- Take a bucket and several scoops of different colors for a walk. Let the child play with a scoop of the same color as the bucket.
You can read more about the principles of studying colors on our website.
But, of course, the main tool in teaching a child colors is interesting children's games for 3-4 years old.
Game 1: Train
Preparation
Prepare a colorful building set with large parts and some small colorful toys. You can use colored fish from the game "Fishing" with a fishing rod magnet, souvenirs from Kinder Surprises, rubber toys for bathing.
Let's play
Together with your child, make several colored trains, making chains of the same color from the details of the designer.
At the driver's signal, all "passengers" must take their seats: red toys - in the red "train", etc.
Game 2: The Tailor
Preparation
Prepare several pieces of colored plain fabric and buttons to match them.
Playing
Lay out 4 pieces of fabric in front of the baby and place a bucket with buttons. The peanut should arrange the buttons by color: red - on red fabric, etc.
Working with small objects, the baby also develops fine motor skills. And if you choose materials of different textures, then this game exercise will also enrich the tactile experience of the little one. Triple benefits!
Game 3: Construction
Preparation
Before playing, prepare building materials for your little builder. To do this, cut out the details of the house from thick colored paper: a large square is the base of the house, a triangle is the roof, round windows and a rectangular door.
You can add a pipe to the roof and other elements of your choice.
Playing
First, ask the child to assemble a house of the same color, laying out the corresponding parts in front of it.
And now we need to build other houses from the remaining fragments. The main thing is that our structures should be of the same color.
Or you can let your imagination run wild and make the house colorful: a green roof on a red base, blue windows and a yellow door. The beauty!
Game 4: "Assemble the Bouquet"
Preparation
For the game, you need to prepare 4 colored vases and three flowers of each color. You can make vases from cut plastic bottles, origami paper, or cut cardboard. Flowers can be made from colored wire, plastic spoons or, again, paper. If desired, materials for this game can be made in advance by inviting the baby to the creative process.
Playing
Arrange the vases in front of the child and place the flowers in a separate container.
The task of the florist is to collect single-color bouquets by placing them in a vase of the corresponding color. Simple, fun, interesting!
Game 5: Colored Chickens
Preparation
To prepare the material for this color learning game, you will need small colored disposable cups, colored paper, glue, pencil and scissors. Draw a chicken and 5 eggs on each sheet. If you can’t draw a chicken yourself, you can download and print a template from the Internet. We cut out the blanks, glue the chickens to the glasses of the corresponding color, and put the eggs in the “tray”.
Playing
Arrange chickens in front of the baby. It is necessary for each of them to collect eggs. Of course, the colors of chickens and eggs must necessarily match. Do not forget to comment on what color is now in front of the baby.
Game 6: Find a Pair
Preparation
Prepare several pairs of colored paper cutouts.
You can use not only plain, but also colored blanks - for example, red circles with green stripes or yellow stars on a blue background.
Playing
Lay out the sequence of blanks in front of the child, commenting on your actions:
- red circle;
- blue square;
- green oval.
The kid needs to repeat the sequence according to the pattern.
Game 7: Beads
Preparation
Draw beads on a thick sheet of paper: colored balls connected by a thin line in an arbitrary sequence of colors. Cut out colored circles from colored paper.
Playing
The child must cover the corresponding beads in the picture with circles.
Game 8: Color Lotto
Preparation
Lotto based board games for toddlers to develop attention, perseverance and fine motor skills. And if we make all the cards of certain colors, we get a great simulator for learning colors.
Playing
In front of the baby there are cards for 6 sections, each of which contains drawings of the same color:
- green ball;
- green house;
- green flower;
- green watch;
- green plate;
- green car.
You need to find the right pictures and close all the sections correctly. You can make cards not only in color, but also thematic. For example, on the yellow card, all the pictures correspond to the autumn theme, and on the white one, to the winter one.
Lotto cards can be bought in the store, downloaded from the Internet or made by yourself, selecting fragments so that you get the most out of the game and enjoy it.
Game 9: Sorter
Preparation
Making your own color sorter is easy. Take a large box, for example, from under shoes. Glue it with colored paper stripes. Cut a hole in the middle of each strip. For sorting, it is convenient to use small clothespins, paper clips, counting sticks, cardboard figures, small designer parts, mosaics.
Of course, do not let the kid playing with various small things out of sight.
Playing
We put small objects in front of the little one and see how famously he will cope with the task: sort them into the appropriate compartments of a home-made sorter.
Game 10: Reading in Color
Reading aloud to 3-4 year olds is very useful. Listening to an adult, little fidgets replenish their passive vocabulary, get acquainted with the richness of their native speech, develop intelligence and emotions. But what if you choose “colored” poems, stories, fairy tales for reading? Start, for example, with S. Marshak's Color Book.
And you can read these verses:
The yellow color fades immediately,
If there is no sun in the sky.
And the green disappears,
When the ground is covered with white
Snow. Blue
Always with you on a clear day.
Red hides in the sunset:
Horizon, as on a poster,
Drowning in the brightness of tones,
Inviting to the realm of dreams.
