Color purple activities for preschoolers

100 Purple Things and Purple Activity Ideas for Kids

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Are you looking for purple things to share with your students or kids? We collected below 100 purple things you can share plus a big list of activities around the purple color.

Learning colors can be a fun experience for young children. The best way to teach children colors is by showing them many examples.

The color purple can be celebrated with a themed day or classroom lesson.

Encourage children to wear purple. There will inevitably be many shades of purple that provide a teachable moment about how colors come in light and dark shades.

The next step is to showcase many examples of the color purple by offering pictures of purple items or tangible items that can be passed around and touched. A game is a great teaching method that makes learning fun.

Each year purple day is March 26th. Wear purple to support epilepsy awareness worldwide.  For more info on Purple Day visit the ‘Purple Day Campaign’ 

Color matching, guess the color, and I spy are activities that build excitement and color recognition. Art projects and simple coloring offer another hands-on learning tactic.

Find something purple like grapes and have the children color them or glue purple circles onto the picture.

A display of the colorful art projects will continue to cement the concept into young minds.

Table of Contents

• Purple Things List 
• Purple Decoration Ideas
• Purple Themed Activity Ideas
• Purple Art Ideas
• Purple Craft Ideas
• Purple Themed Science Projects
• Purple Snack Ideas
• Purple Beverage Ideas

1. Grapes

2. Eggplant

3. Lavender

4. Purple Nudibranch (marine animal)

5. Purple Sea Star

6. Purple Tang (fish)

7. Purple Mountain, China

8. Amethyst

9. Lucifer Hummingbird

10. Purple Peacock

11. Purple Honeycreeper (bird)

12. Purple Cauliflower

13. Crocus (flower)

14. Trailing Geranium

15. Purple Jade

16. Spinel (gemstone)

17. Jambul (Fruit)

18. Purple Martin (bird)

19. Canterbury Bells (flower)

20. Magenta Flower

21. Begonia Rex

22. Fig

23. Bruises

24. Barney

25. Orchids

26. Cabbage

27. Red Onions

28. Violets

29. Plums

30. Tulips

31. Blueberry

32. Blackberry

33. Purple Bell Pepper

34. Purple Cayenne Pepper

35. Purple Jalapeno

36. Violet-Backed Starling (bird)

37. Purple Grenadier (bird)

38. Purple Gallinule (bird)

39. Varied Bunting (bird

40. Violet-crowned Woodnymph (bird)

41. Splendid Sunbird (bird)

42. Indian Purple Frog

43. Orchid Dotty Back (fish)

44. Purple Emperor Butterfly

45. Violet Sea Snails

46. Purple Beetles

47. Purple Bamboo Salt

48. Purple Granite

49. Purple Potato

50. Purple Asparagus

51. Purple Carrots

52. Acai Berry

53. Purple Corn

54. Ube (Purple Yam)

55. Passion Fruit

56. Elderberries

57. Purple Kohlrabi

58. Radicchio

59. Purple Belgian Endive

60. Purple Kale

61. Red Leaf Lettuce

62. Purple Broccoli

63. Purple Thyme

64. Purple Basil

65. Black Currants

66. Lepidolite (mineral)

67. Quartz

68. Sodalite (mineral)

69. Spodumene (mineral)

70. Purple Coral

71. Elegant Firefish

72. Betta Fish

73. Purple Striped Jellyfish

74. Blackcap Gramma Basslet (fish)

75. Purple Queen Anthias (fish)

76. Charoite 

77. Sugilite 

78. Lilac

79. Violet 

80. Jacaranda

81. Hellebore

82. Bellflower ( Campanula )

83. Lupin

84. Aster

85. Hyacinth

86. Foxglove

87. Giant Onion Flower

88. hollyhock Flower

89. Petunia 

90. Fuchsia 

91. Pansy

92. Anemone 

93. Wisteria 

94. Morning Glory 

95. Verbena 

96. Bell Heather

97. Columbine

98. Clematis

99. Lisianthus

100. Pasque 

Pick a color for a theme and see how easy it is to do! Just choose a color your kids like–and go with it! This ‘Purplicious Theme’ for a party or childcare program is an example…

CALL IT:
‘Purplcious’ for a girls’ party…or…
‘Operation Purple’  for an all-boys’ or ‘boys and girls’ celebration or theme…

NOTE: Be sure to also visit the “PURPLE PEOPLE EATER” theme!

• Balloons: Purple, violet, lavender, and white
• Crepe Paper and/or paper chains: Make them in colors of purple, violet, orchid, lavender,  pink and white
• Purple paper plates, cups, and napkins

PUT UP PURPLE  ‘COLOR BLOCK ART’ or PAPER ON WALLS

Paint and color large sizes and shapes of paper in shades of purple. Hang them on the walls in art gallery fashion.

Several identical and very large purple paintings would look great going across a wall in the gallery-wall style. You could also mount purple fabric or paper!

1. Have kids/guests come DRESSED, in purple, violet, lavender, orchid or white!

2. Have PURPLE MAKEOVERS with purple eye shadow, purple lipstick, purple nail polish, purple hair ribbon, etc.

3. USING FACE PAINT– paint purple stripes, hearts, and stars on face and hands

4. PLAY ACTIVE GAMES USING PURPLE BALLOONS OR BALLS. See many balloon games in the Races, Relay, Balloon and Bean Bag Category. (Balloon games are towards the bottom of the page.)

5. Watch a movie and count how many purple things you see

Have a treasure hunt for purple items (Purple crayons, ribbon, fabric swatches, small nail polish, ponytail elastics, etc.)

6. MAKE EDIBLE  PURPLE FRUIT LIP GLOSS

Materials:

✓ Grape Flavored drink mix
✓ 1 cup vegetable shortening
✓ Food coloring
✓ A small container such as a film container

1. Mix one packet of drink mix with shortening.
2. Add in a few drops of food coloring that matches the flavor. ie: yellow for lemon.
3. Pack in a small container, such as a film container, and you have a wonderful tasting and smelling lip gloss. Of course, the lip gloss is edible should some accidentally be licked off.

This is my favorite playdough because–it’s fast–no cooking–easy ingredients and smells good—tastes bad. The original recipe calls for 1 cup of flour–however, just having made it–we added another two or three cups of flour. When making playdough, you can always add more flour if it is too wet and additional hot water if it’s too dry! My 4.5 and 6-year-old grand-daughters thought it was the greatest thing ever! (Barb 10/3/10)

✓ 2 1/2 c flour, sifted
✓ 1/2 c salt
✓ 3 T cooking oil
✓ 1 or 2 pkg Grape Kool-aid (unsweetened)
✓ 1 c very hot water

1. Mix together flour, salt, oil, and Kool-aid.
2. Add the cup of almost boiling water. Mix well.
3. Knead the mixture until it forms a soft dough.
4. Have fun!

When done, store in a sealed container in the refrigerator. Your play dough will be the scent and color of the Kool-Aid!

*Any other unsweetened, powdered drink mix may be substituted.
*There may be colored hands but it washes off. (My own experiences have never produced colored hands–hower some have said theirs did.)

✓ 2 tsp. purple powdered tempera paint
✓ 1/3 cup water
✓ Wax-coated paper cup
✓ Craft stick
✓ Plastic wrap

1. Mix paint and water together.
2. Pour the mixture into a wax coated paper cup.
3. Cover the cup with plastic wrap, then insert the craft stick through the plastic wrap in the center of the cup.
4. Place the cup in the freezer and freeze until solid.
5. Remove the paper cup and plastic wrap from the Freeze Pop Paint.
6. Dip the paint into water and paint on white paper.

✓ purple fabric scraps
✓ Purple paper
✓ purple tissue paper
✓ purple yarn
✓ purple buttons
✓ purple cotton balls
✓ purple milk jug caps
✓ purple confetti
✓ purple paint chip samples from the paint or hardware store, etc.

Beautiful collages can also be made by clipping ‘purple images’ from magazines and cards! Clothing collage made by Abby in Grand Rapids for Polyvor.com

On finger-paint, paper, draw or copy a lot of grape stems. Using purple finger-paint- have children use their thumbs to fill the page with “purple grapes”!

Dip sponge pieces into thick purple paint.  Print on sheets of white or light blue paper. Tip:  Clothespins can be clipped on the sponges and used as handles.

✓ 1 Tablespoon purple powdered unsweetened drink mix
✓ 1 Tablespoon warm water
✓ Several small containers

1. Mix the water and unsweetened drink mix together in a small bowl. (Make tints of purple (grape) and also mix red and blue to make purple)
2. Pour blended mixture into containers. (Muffin tins or film canisters work well.)
3. Repeat this with each “color” you’re making, pouring them into separate containers.

Paint with ordinary paintbrushes, cleaning the brush between colors. Allow artwork to dry overnight before scratching and sniffing.

✓ 2 packages unsweetened grape Kool-aid
✓ 2 cups flour
✓ 1/2 cup salt
✓ 3 cups boiling water
✓ 3 tablespoons oil

Mix dry ingredients together, then add wet ingredients. Paint.

✓ 4 TBSP of white Elmer’s glue
✓ 2 TBSP of liquid starch…  Add liquid starch slowly to the glue
✓ If it is stringy–add a drop of glue.
✓ If too hard– add more starch. Mix in a couple of drops of purple food coloring-or red and blue.

 Caution:  the food coloring mixed into the glue and starch concoction–WILL stain hands. Be sure to have good soap near a water source. Color should come off in a couple of washings

Chill for at least 2-3 hours. It becomes runny when too warm.

Mix one cup condensed milk with a few drops of red and blue (or purple) food coloring.

✓ 1 medium Ziploc bag
✓ white shaving cream
✓ Food coloring

1. Place a palm-size dollop of shaving cream into the Ziploc bag; add a few drops of blue and red food coloring.
2. Zip up the bag, removing all the air you can before sealing. The kids can “knead” the bag to mix the colors – red and blue make purple!

Sprinkle Kool-aid crystals onto a piece of paper. Have children spray water from a spray bottle onto the paper. Use grape mix as well as blending red and blue.

Put out shades of purple paint, from dark purple to lavender at the easel or art table.

1.  Give each child a piece of construction paper, and have them draw a picture or write words with the glue. Make sure that they do not put gobs of glue in any one spot.
2.  Before the glue dries, with the hand, pour/put sand onto the glue. Let it sit for a few minutes and then shake off the excess sand.
3.  It should dry flat for about half an hour depending on how much glue was used.

DRY SAND PAINT WITH SHAKER
Take 1 cup of sand and 1 T. powdered paint. Mix and put into a shaker.
Put glue design onto paper-Shake sand onto the glue.

This is a great sensory play activity idea. Add red and blue food coloring into the water table. Squirt some liquid detergent for wonderful purple suds.

✓ A glass bottle
✓ Purple Yarn
✓ Craft glue
✓ A toothpick

1. Cover about 1″ of the bottom of the bottle with glue.
2. Wind the yarn around the bottle, tight but not too tight. You can use different colors of yarn to make stripes on your vase.
3. When the glued area is completely covered, push the rows of yarn closer together. Tuck in the beginning of the yarn with a toothpick, add a little more glue there and press down for a minute.
4. Keep repeating steps 1, 2, and 3 until the whole bottle is covered with yarn. Glue will dry clear.

1. Remove the label from a clean, clear 16 oz. plastic soda bottle.
2. Pour at least 1/2 cup of light corn syrup into the bottle. Add a few drops of purple food coloring and some glitter and/or confetti.
3. Hot glue the lid onto the bottle.
4. Swirl and shake the bottle to watch its movement.

Blow up a balloon to a size of a softball or larger; cut about a 2 to 3 foot of purple yarn (depending on the size of ball) and put it in a bowl of Elmer’s glue.

Take out the yarn and begin wrapping it around the balloon. Hang the balloon to dry for 24 hrs or till the glue is dry. Pop the balloon and carefully remove it. You can hang this yarn balloon from the ceiling, branches or ______!

1. After filling an ice cube tray with water– add drops of red and blue food coloring in the compartments.
2. After cubes are frozen, place a red cube and blue cube in a glass.
3. As the cubes melt, watch what happens!

Add 4 TBSP of white Elmer’s glue to 2 TBSP of liquid starch. Mix together…if it’s too stringy, add a drop of glue. If too hard, add more starch. (The playdough ideas up above in ‘Art’ is also science!

1. For each child mix 1 tablespoon Epson salts and 1 tablespoon water in a baby food jar or a clear plastic glass.
2. Stir in 1/4 teaspoon of purple food coloring.
3. Have children observe over the next few days as the water evaporates and small crystals begin to form.
4. Keep a magnifying glass handy for closer examination.

Cut the bottom of celery stalks and set them in glasses of PURPLE tinted water; the longer the stalks are in the water, the deeper the color will be. The stalks will absorb the color and then the kids can eat them!

ANOTHER CELERY IDEA: Mixing Colors 

• Take a stalk of celery and slice it up the center leaving it connected at the top. Place the celery stalk in two containers of colored water. Example: To get purple, put one side in red, and the other in blue.
• Leave it for a day or two and watch how the veins in the celery turn color as it takes up the water. You can also include a discussion of plant life with this activity.

• PURPLE FRUIT SALAD
  Make a purple fruit salad with a selection of purple fruit. Purple fruits include:
  Blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, plums, Purple and red grapes, cherries.
• Make Grape JELL-O
• Make Peanutbutter and Grape JELLY/JAM SANDWICHES–cut with cute cookie-cutters if desired.
• Grape POPSICLES
• Purple JELLY BEANS
• Add purple food color to a sour-cream base DIP — and serve with veggies. Putting veggies on toothpicks and inserting them into an EGGPLANT would add to the purple theme!
• Make Purple PIES (Blueberry Pies)– Bake pre-made pie shells and have kids fill with blueberry pie filling…
• Serve CREAM CHEESE ON CRACKERS –Tint cream cheese purple (blue if can’t find purple) and spread on crackers.
• Make purple or blue POPCORN balls tinted with food coloring and blueberries.
  or…
• Tint melted butter with purple food coloring before drizzling – then let the kids mix well)
• Make EGG SALAD sandwich filling (tinted with food coloring)
• Frost a CAKE OR CUPCAKES with frosting tinted with purple food coloring. Or–have kids FROST PLAIN SUGAR COOKIES with purple-colored frosting. Decorate with purple sprinkles and candy.

Have the kids make Berry Smoothies!

✓ 1/2 cup orange juice
✓ 1 cup blueberry yogurt
✓ 1 cup washed, stemmed blueberries
✓ honey to taste

Place all the ingredients in a blender. Blend on high speed until smooth.

✓ 1 pint fresh blueberries or 2 cups (10 oz.) frozen blueberries, slightly thawed
✓ 1 cup pineapple, orange and strawberry juice blend or pineapple-orange juice
✓ 1 container (8 oz.) blueberry or vanilla yogurt
✓ 2 teaspoons sugar

Instructions

1. In the container of an electric blender, combine blueberries, juice, yogurt, and sugar.
2. Blend until smooth, about 1 minute.
3. Serve immediately in tall glasses.

Check out our other kid’s smoothie ideas.

Add a small amount of food coloring to the water before putting in ice cube trays and freezing. Add a grape to each if desired.

Freeze grape juice or soft drink in ice-cube trays.

✓ ¼ cup unsweetened grape juice
✓ 1 cup milk
✓ 1 sliced banana

Mix all ingredients together in a blender. Makes 4-6 small servings

✓ 2 oz. of grape juice
✓ 1/4 c. vanilla ice cream
✓ 2 oz. of lemon-lime soda

1. Blend juice and ice cream
2. Add soda.

I never saw a Purple Cow,
I never hope to see one…
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I’d rather see than be one.

✓ 100% frozen grape concentrate juice
✓ Carbonated water (amount required on juice can)
✓ Small cups
✓ Pitcher

1. Make frozen concentrate juice by the directions on the can, substituting carbonated water for the regular water.
2. Pour into cups and enjoy.

Serving size 6 oz.

Storebought Purple Beverage Ideas

• Grape KOOL-AID
• GRAPE JUICE
• Grape Soda Pop or ICE-CREAM FLOATS
• Purple PUNCH

Looking for ‘Purple People Eater Ideas? VISIT OUR PURPLE PEOPLE EATER THEME! Lots of fun ideas!

Sources:

https://demplates. com/things-that-are-purple/
https://www.papaleng-amazing-animals.com/2015/04/10-striking-purple-colored-birds.html
https://www.animals-zone.com/10-amazing-purple-animals
https://www.finedininglovers.com/article/35-purple-fruits-and-vegetables-you-should-be-eating
https://www.thoughtco.com/blue-purple-and-violet-minerals-1440938

Purple Color Activities by Jean Warren

QUICK STARTS FOR PURPLE Finger paint with red and blue paint. Make “Purple Cows” – milk and grape juice mixed. Dye hard-boiled eggs purple. Look for purple grapes and egg plant at the grocery store. Draw with purple markers. Make purple play dough. Eat grape popsicles. Look for lilac or purple flowers at the flower nursery. Make a purple collage using purple paper scraps, yarn and feathers. Make purple fingerprints or paw prints with a paw stamp. Make up a purple story.

GRAPE PRINTS Set out purple paint pads (place folded paper towels in pie pans and pour on purple paint. Set out corks and sheets of paper, plus a large cluster of purple grapes. Have your children dip cork ends into the purple paint and make circle prints on their paper in the shape of a bunch of purple grapes.

PURPLE TULIP PRINTS Set out purple paint pads (Like those found above) and background papers. Cut thin sponges into tulip shapes. Have children dip the shapes into the purple paint and press purple tulips all over a piece of background paper. Set out green crayons or markers for children to add flower stems and leaves, if they desire.

PURPLE HAND PRINT TULIPS Set out small jars of purple tempera paint and paintbrushes. Give your children large sheets of white or light blue construction paper. Show your children how to paint the palm of one hand with purple paint, then hold their fingers and thumb together and press the hand onto their paper to make a hand print. Have children repeat the process if they want more than one tulip.   When the paint is dry, give your children green markers to add stems and leaves to their tulips.

PURPLE NAME CROWNS Make a 2 by 20-inch crown out of purple construction paper for each child. Before taping each crown, lay it out flat and write the child’s name on the center of the crown using a pencil.  Make large letters. Give the flat crowns to the children and have them paint over the letters in their names with a cotton swab and some glue. Then one at a time, lay the crowns in a large box lid and let the children sprinkle purple glitter over the letters on their crown. When dry, wrap the crowns around each child’s head and secure with tape.

PURPLE MAN PUPPETS Give your children circles cut from purple paper. Have children draw faces on the circles. Set out some purple Easter grass for children to use for purple hair. Set out large craft sticks to glue to the back of the circle head, for a puppet handle. Extension:  Let children add purple paper, straight or accordion folded, or purple yarn arms and legs if they desire.   Also purple paper hands and feet.  Let children use their puppets to sing purple songs.

PURPLE COW PAINT Here is a recipe for a glossy purple milk paint that children enjoy. Mix together 1 cup condensed milk with red and blue food coloring. Let children use the paint to paint, paper Easter eggs, or cow shapes. Note:  Condensed milk paint dries slowly and is tacky for a long time.  When it fully dries (2-4 days), however, it has a great gloss.

PURPLE BUTTERFLIES You will need coffee filters and food coloring for this activity. Mix up some water with red and blue food coloring. Set out some brushes and have your children paint their filters with the purple water. When the filters dry, have children scrunch them in the middle and twist a small purple Chenille stem around the middle, leaving the two stem ends sticking out for antenna. Variation:  You could also have your children make purple flowers by having them fold their purple filter in fourths and then twisting the Chenille stem around the pointed corner.  Then fold out the filter, curling edges down.

FIVE PURPLE BALL PICTURES After you have done the activity below, you may want to have your children make ball pictures.   You will need purple dobbers for this activity. Cut out pictures of outdoor scenes for your children. Set out the scenes along with some background paper and some glue. Have children choose a scene and glue it to their background paper. Then, have them take a purple dobber and make five purple ball dots bouncing across their pictures.

FIVE PURPLE BALLS You will need five purple circle stickers for each child. Help children place five purple circle stickers on the nails of five fingers. Have children turn their hands around, so the stickers are out front. Then have your children recite the following number rhyme and hide fingers as the rhyme indicates. FIVE PURPLE BALLS Five purple balls bounced by a door. One bounced inside, that left four. Four purple balls, bounced by a tree. One bounced behind it, that left three. Three purple balls with nothing to do. One bounced home, that left two. Two purple balls, bouncing just for fun One bounced away, that left one. One purple ball, bouncing down the street. I took it home when it landed at my feet.                                      Jean Warren

PURPLE PUZZLES Let your children use purple crayons and markers to draw pictures on pieces of heavy paper. Cut each child’s picture into several puzzle pieces and store them in a zip-lock bag with the child’s name on the bag. Set out all puzzles on a table and let children choose a puzzle (not their own) to try to put together. After a couple of days, let each child take home their own puzzle.

PICKING PURPLE Set out a pile of small items on a table (make sure you have 4-5 purple ones). Set out a purple basket (or box painted purple). Let your children take turns sorting through the small objects and placing just the purple ones in their basket. When their turn is over, have the child dump the purple items back on the pile and mix up the items before another child has a turn.

PURPLE BUTTERFLIES Here is a fun movement game for your children. Collect a variety of purple scarves. Tie two of the scarves together and let your children take turns placing them across their shoulders and grabbing onto the ends with their hands to create purple wings. Have them pretend to be butterflies as they gently flap their purple wings and “fly” around the room. Encourage your children to use the scarves in other ways by turning them into capes, skirts, or whatever they imagine.

PURPLE LITERATURE Read popular children’s stories to your children that stress the color purple.  Such as; “Harold & The Purple Crayon”  by Crockett Johnson. “Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse” “Bread & Jam For Francis” by R. Hoban

PURPLE PIE Read the poem “Little Jack Horner” to your children. Discuss plums and what color they are. Now brainstorm other purple items. (They do not have to be food) Then let your children take turns reciting the poem and substituting other purple objects for the plum.

PURPLE COW Read the rhyme, “The Purple Cow” to your children. Have them make up a story about a cow who ate some purple grapes and ended up giving purple milk.

PURPLE STARTS WITH “P” Point out to your children that the word purple starts with the letter P. Make the P sound together.   Ask your children to name as many different P words as they can, such as pig, penny, pony, popcorn, pie, puppet, puddle and pen.

PURPLE WRITING

SHAVING CREAM LETTERS Set out a cookie sheet for your child. Spray a glob of shaving cream onto the center of the tray. Add a drop of red and blue food coloring. Have your children mix the colors into the cream. Then, have them use their finger to draw letters in the purple shaving cream.

PURPLE INK Save the juice from the small can of blueberries found in packages of Blueberry Muffin Mix. Set out a small cup of the berry ink along with some cotton swabs. Give your child some heavy white paper and have him dip a swab into the ink and write letters on his paper.

PURPLE PLAY DOUGH Make a batch of purple play dough. Have your children roll out long ropes of dough. Show them how to fashion letters from the dough ropes.

PURPLE POSIE FUN Try one or more of these ideas with your group. Go for a walk or to a garden center to see purple flowers in bloom. Bring in a flowering purple plant for your children to care for; such as crocus or violets. Use purple flower pictures cut from seed catalogs to make garden mural.

MAKING PURPLE What happens when red and blue are mixed together?  Try these experiments with your children to find out. Use food coloring to make red and blue ice cubes in a clean plastic-foam egg carton.   Drop one red and one blue ice cube into a glass of water and wait for a new color, purple, to appear. Squeeze drops of red and blue food coloring into a clear-plastic bottle of water.  Fasten the cap securely, then roll the bottle to blend the colors and create purple.

PURPLE SNACKS Try serving one of these foods at snack time. Grape juice Purple plums Purple grapes Grape jelly on toast

PURPLE COWS You will need milk and grape juice. Mix the two together to make a “Purple Cow” treat.

WE LOVE PURPLE Tune:  “Frere Jacques” We love purple. We love purple. Yes, we do. Yes, we do. Purple grapes and eggplant, Purple plums and grape juice, Just for me, just for you.                     Heather McPhail

I NEVER SAW A PURPLE COW I never saw a purple cow, I never hope to see one. But I can tell you, anyhow, I’d rather see than be one!                       Traditional

LITTLE JACK HORNER Little Jack Horner Sat in his corner, Eating his Christmas pie. He put in his thunb And pulled out a plum, And said, “What a good boy am I.”                                     Traditional

PURPLE DINOSAUR I met a purple dinosaur Walking down the street. He had a purple head And four big purple feet. He had a purple basket With purple things inside. And everywhere he went, Purple things, he would hide. One day when I was out, I found a plum pie, I guess the purple dinosaur Was somewhere close by. Another time, I found An eggplant by my door. What a busy fellow That purple dinosaur. Some days I find grapes, Some days, purple pops. Some times I find violets, Or purple spinning tops. So if you see a dinosaur Coming down your street. Wait until he passes, Then search for purple treats!                         Jean Warren

Synopsis of the GCD "Purple Tale" | Outline of the lesson (middle group):

Synopsis of the GCD "Purple Tale" in the senior group

Educational areas - cognitive, social and communicative, speech, artistic and aesthetic, physical.

Program content: reinforce children's knowledge of the color purple with color.

To consolidate knowledge of the name of the purple color.

Teach children to identify a purple object from a variety of colorful objects. Exercise children in counting up to 5. Introduce children to a new insect - the Crimean ground beetle, listed in the Red Book. Cultivate an ecological culture. Teach children to answer questions in full sentences. Encourage children's interest in working with color.

Develop children's imagination, attention.

Develop fine motor skills of the hands.

Dictionary: enter into the children's active dictionary the words - pistachios, pests, ground beetle, Red Book, Hibiscus tea,

Equipment: illustrations for the fairy tale, the book "Rare Animals and Plants of Crimea", a photograph of a ground beetle, purple objects. Phonogram of birds singing, lyrical music.

Preliminary work: reviewing the Red Book, drawing a blue bird, preparing blanks for art activities.

STUDY PROGRESS:

Introduction.

Guys, you and I know a lot about the colors of the rainbow, we conducted paint mixing experiments and got new colors, we took paints from nature, drew a lot, sculpted, and today we will again devote our lesson to color.

But first, let's do a warm-up:

- How many colors are in the rainbow?

- What kind of rhyme do you know to memorize the arrangement of colors in a rainbow?

- Name in order all the colored paths of the rainbow?

- When can you see a rainbow?

I. The Tale of the Purple Palace.

Guys, listen to a fairy tale:

In a magical purple country, in a purple palace, there lived - there was a little princess. And her name was Princess Fi. Almost everything in this country was purple: the houses, the sky, the sun and even the food were purple.

In the morning, five purple birds flew to the windows of the purple palace and woke up Princess Phi with their gentle singing.

(the soundtrack of birdsong sounds).

The princess woke up, opened the window and fed pistachios to the purple birds.

Pistachios are such delicious nuts in a hard shell. She gave each bird one pistachio.

Fi was a kind, but very capricious girl - everything was wrong for her: they bring her a purple dress - the princess stamps her feet: "I don't want to!" They put purple porridge for breakfast - the princess cries, sobs: "Oh, I don't like it!"

Only one thing made the little princess happy - the garden in the courtyard of the purple palace. Fi was very fond of walking in her purple garden. Purple eggplants grew there in the beds, purple violets and bluebells bloomed in the flowerbeds, purple plums and bunches of purple grapes hung from the trees. Little Princess Phi took a purple watering can and watered her garden.

This morning, the princess went out to her favorite garden as usual. She stopped near a bush of violets and sang a song:

"Purple violet is tired of living in the garden,

I will pick it and bring it to my mother on her birthday.

She will live with purple lilacs,

On the table in a beautiful vase near the window. "

The princess bent down to pick a violet, and then from under the sheet came the sound: "BUT-but-but! Princess, don't ruin my favorite violet." It was a big old, of course, purple and very wise beetle, its name was Ground beetle. (photo display)

He lived in the purple garden. “Fi, don’t tear the violet, it won’t stand in a vase for a long time - it will wither, and it will bloom in the flower bed for a long time and delight you and me,” the Ground beetle added. “Why should I listen to some purple beetle?” Fi asked.

"Because I live a long time in the world, I've seen a lot, I know a lot. Take my advice, girl, take pity on the violet. And someday I'll thank you for your kindness. . He said so and crawled away. Princess Fi thought about it and didn't pick the flowers.

Time has passed. One beautiful purple morning, Princess Phi went out into her garden and did not recognize him. The garden was attacked by pests - caterpillars, snails, bugs. They voraciously ate all her favorite plants. Tears rolled from the eyes of the princess, she did not know how to save her garden. And then she heard a familiar kind voice: "Don't cry, girl, I promised you to repay your kindness with kindness. And I will help save your garden. Now I will call my friends - Ground beetles and we will quickly defeat harmful insects, because for us this is the most delicious treat!" Beautiful purple beetles, as promised, drove away all the pests. The garden has been saved! The princess thanked the old beetle and his friends and never offended them.

II. Essay on the content of the story.

Guys, this is how Princess Phi's story ended.

• Would you like to go to the purple kingdom?
• Do you remember the name of the little princess?

• What color was her palace?
• How many birds flew to the princess? (five)
• What did the princess feed the birds with? (pistachios).
• She gave one nut to each of the five birds. How many nuts did she take with her for the birds? (five).
• What else was purple in this kingdom? (houses, trees, sky, sun and even food).
• What did Princess Phi dislike about purple? (Dress, porridge).
• What was the princess like? (kind, but capricious).
• And what did she love? (garden).
• How many plants did she have in her garden? (a lot of).
• What grew in the garden? (eggplants, violets, bluebells, plums, grapes).
• What color is eggplant, grape, violet, bluebell, plum?
• Are there purple porridge, sky, sun, trees? Do you like purple?
• Who asked the princess not to destroy the violet? What was the beetle's name? (Ground beetle).
• Why did the beetle ask not to destroy the garden violet? (She does not stand in a vase for a long time and dies).
• Will you pick flowers in the flower beds? Why?
• How did ground beetles save the magic garden? (they ate pests).

Yes, guys, beetle Ground beetle is a useful beetle that lives in Crimea. It feeds on insect pests and saves plants from them. Ground beetle is a rare beetle, it is even listed in the special Red Book of Crimea and Ukraine. This book tells about all kinds of rare and endangered animals, insects, plants and fungi. And people should know about them and protect them. Otherwise, they will simply disappear from the face of the Earth. The purple ground beetle has a special weapon - at the moment of danger, it shoots at its enemy with special caustic purple ink, so you should not take this beetle in your hands.

• If you meet a Ground Beetle on the street, what will you do?
• Why do people protect this beetle and even put it in the Red Book? (this is a rare and beneficial beetle for nature).
• What happens if all the beetles of the Ground beetle suddenly disappear? (Plants will suffer from harmful insects).

The violet kingdom exists only in a fairy tale. And you guys, remember that you have to pay good for good.

In our life, the purple color is not very common, we all know what purple is, and we won’t mix it up. Let's play:

III. Didactic games for reinforcement.

"Find a purple object."

Equipment: Violet colored items placed in a group.

Game progress: invite the children to disperse into a group, look carefully, find and show purple objects.

IV. Dynamic gymnastics

The class raises its hands - this is the time.

Head down - that's two.

Hands up, look forward - that's three.

Arms wide apart

We will divide by four.

Five - let's sit down deeply,

Six - let's jump lightly

Let's take a deep breath now.

Seven, let's sit down at the table.

V. Research and experimental activities.

You already know a lot about the different colors of the rainbow, but would you like to learn more?

Today you will learn how to get purple dye.

This is not difficult to do. It is enough to mix blue and red paints. But before we do the experiment, let's talk about these colors.

So blue. It is the color of the sea and sky.

Together we read Meter Link's fairy tale about the Blue Bird, which brings happiness to people, and drew it.

Is the blue color warm or cool? Light or dark? What happens in blue? What does blue smell like? What does it taste like?

Red is the color of courage, bravery and victory.

Red is the color of blood. The red cross is a symbol of medicine.

The word red and beautiful have a common meaning. In Russian folk tales, the expression "beautiful maiden" and "red fellow" is often found.

What does this mean?

This means a beautiful girl and a handsome guy.

Among the Slavic peoples in ancient times, the bride was not sewn for a wedding white, but a red dress, and a towel (towel) was laid under her feet, on which a red pattern was embroidered on a white background, because red is the color of kindness, happiness and love. The sun is also affectionately called the red sun, i.e. beautiful.

You can take red paint from nature. We have already obtained dark red paint from beet juice.

And today I will show you how you can get a dark red dye from a special tea called Hibiscus. Hibiscus tea is dried rose petals that grow in Africa. I will pour boiling water over the dried petals and you will see what happened. The drink turned dark red. This tea is very healthy as it contains a lot of vitamin C, so it tastes sour. They drink it in hot weather to quench their thirst, and also during a cold to overcome the disease faster.

Try Hibiscus tea too. (tasting).

Tell me, guys, is red a warm or cold color? Bright or dark? What does he smell like? What does it taste like?

And now we will conduct an experiment - we will take and mix blue and red paint. See what color it is?

Violet Paint
Produces blue with red.
Violet violets
We give a bouquet as a gift

VI. Inventiveness

The teacher distributes blanks with the silhouette of a ground beetle to the children.

Task: Paint the beetle with the paint that you yourself received as a result of the experiment.

Guys, every paint is needed and useful.

Today, you have visited the purple kingdom, met Princess Phi and her friend, the Ground beetle. Learned a lot of new and interesting things. You were attentive, tried hard, and therefore

did all the tasks correctly. And you also remember that kindness must be repaid with kindness. Tonight, take your work home and show your parents, brothers and sisters the Crimean ground beetle, tell us about the beetle listed in the Red Book, Explain how to treat it.

Experience in obtaining purple paint

Didactic game “Find purple items

Synopsis of the integrated class in the middle group of kindergarten“ Violet fairy tale ”

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Program content:

Introduce children to the color purple.
To consolidate knowledge of the name of the purple color.
Teach children to identify a purple object from a variety of colorful objects.
Exercise children counting up to 3. Introduce children to a new insect - the ground beetle, listed in the Red Book.
Raise an ecological culture. Teach children to answer questions in full sentences.
Encourage children's interest in working with color.
Develop children's imagination, attention.
Develop fine motor skills.
Dictionary: enter the words - pistachios, ground beetle, Red Book into the children's active dictionary.

Equipment:

Illustrations for the fairy tale, the book "Rare Animals and Plants of the Crimea", a photograph of a ground beetle, subject pictures painted in uncharacteristic colors, colored pencils, silhouette images of objects.

Lesson progress:

Children, listen to the fairy tale:

The Tale of the Purple Palace

In a magical purple country, in a purple palace, there lived a little princess. And her name was Princess Fi. Almost everything in this country was purple: the houses, the sky, the sun and even the food were purple. In the morning, three purple birds flew to the windows of the purple palace and woke up Princess Phi with their gentle singing. The princess woke up, opened the window and fed the purple birds with pistachios. Pistachios are such delicious nuts in a hard shell. She gave each bird one pistachio. Fi was a kind, but very capricious girl - everything was wrong for her: they would bring her a purple dress - the princess stamped her feet: “I don’t want to!” They put purple porridge for breakfast - the princess cries, sobs: “Oh, I don’t like it!”
Only one thing pleased the little princess - a garden in the courtyard of the purple palace. Fi was very fond of walking in her purple garden. Purple eggplants grew there in the beds, purple violets and bluebells bloomed in the flowerbeds, purple plums and bunches of purple grapes hung from the trees. Little Princess Phi took a purple watering can and watered her garden. This morning the princess, as usual, went out to her favorite garden. She stopped near a bush of violets and sang a song:

Violet violet is tired of living in the garden
I will pick it and bring it to my mother on her birthday.
She will live with purple lilacs,
On the table in a beautiful vase near the window.

The princess bent down to pick a violet, and then from under the sheet came the sound: “But-but-but! Princess, don't ruin my favorite violet." It was a big old, of course, purple and very wise beetle, his name was Ground beetle. He lived in the purple garden. “Fi, don’t tear the violet, it won’t stand in a vase for a long time - it will wither, and it will bloom for a long time in the flower bed and delight you and me,” added the Ground beetle beetle. "Why should I be listening to some purple beetle?" Fi asked.

“Because I have lived a long time in the world, I have seen a lot, I know a lot. Take my advice, girl, take pity on the violet. And someday I will thank you for your kindness. After all, I am not an ordinary beetle, we are beetle beetles - defenders.
He said so and crawled away. Princess Fi thought about it and didn't pick the flowers.

Time has passed. One beautiful purple morning, Princess Phi went out into her garden and did not recognize him. The garden was attacked by harmful insects - caterpillars, snails, bugs. They voraciously ate all her favorite plants. Tears rolled from the eyes of the princess, she did not know how to save her garden. And then she heard a familiar kind voice: “Do not cry, girl, I promised you to repay your kindness with kindness. And I'll help save your garden. Now I will call my friends Ground beetles and we will quickly defeat harmful insects, because for us this is the most delicious treat! Beautiful purple beetles, as promised, drove away all the pests. The garden has been saved! The princess thanked the old beetle and his friends and never offended them.

A conversation about the content of the fairy tale

Guys, this is how the story of Princess Fi ended.

Would you like to go to the purple kingdom?
Do you remember the name of the little princess?
What color was her palace?
How many birds flew to the princess? (three)
What did the princess feed the birds with? (pistachios).
She gave one nut to each of the three birds. How many nuts did she take with her
for the birds? (three).
What else was purple in this kingdom?
(houses, trees, sky, sun and even food).
What did Princess Phi dislike about purple? (Dress, porridge).
What was the princess like? (kind, but capricious).
What did she love? (garden).
How many plants did she have in her garden? (a lot of).
What grew in the garden? (eggplants, violets, bluebells, plums, grapes).
What color is eggplant, grape, violet, bluebell, plum?
Are there purple porridge, sky, sun, trees?
Do you like purple?
Why did the princess want to pick a flower?
(To put it in a vase for mom).
Who asked the princess not to destroy the violet? What was the beetle's name? (Ground beetle).
Why did the beetle ask not to destroy the garden violet?
(She does not stand in a vase for a long time and dies).
Will you pick flowers in the flower beds? Why?
How did ground beetles save the magical garden? (they ate pests).

Yes, guys, the beetle The ground beetle is a useful beetle that lives in our area. It feeds on insect pests and saves plants from them. The ground beetle is a rare beetle, it is even listed in a special Red Book. This book protects all rare animals, insects and plants. The purple ground beetle has a special weapon - at the moment of danger, it shoots at its enemy with special caustic purple ink, so you should not take this beetle in your hands.

If you meet a Ground Beetle on the street, what will you do?
Why do people protect this beetle and even put it in the Red Book? (this is a rare and useful beetle for nature).
What would happen if all the beetles of the Ground beetle suddenly disappeared? (Plants will suffer from harmful insects).

The purple kingdom only exists in a fairy tale. And you guys, remember that you have to pay good for good.
In our life, the purple color is not very common, we all know what is purple, and we will not mix it up. Let's play:

Didactic games for reinforcement. Game "Confusion"

Equipment: pictures of animals, plants, etc., which are painted in uncharacteristic colors for them.

Game progress: children are shown a picture - "Confusion". They need to carefully consider it and cross out the objects painted incorrectly.

Dynamic gymnastics with elements of prevention of flat feet and scoliosis

Legs, legs, ran along the path,
Run through the woods, jumped over bumps,
They ran to the meadow, lost their boot,
They found the boot and went home.
We walk on toes,
We walk on our heels.
Here they checked the posture
And brought the shoulder blades together.
We go like this all the guys
And like a clumsy bear.

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