R-E-D color songs

45 songs about the color red for toddlers

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Learn colors with this fun list of color songs for the color red. Pair it with your favorite sensory activity and go on a deep dive of learning the color red.

Grab your favorite play scarf and let’s get singing!

Spotify Playlist for songs about the color red

Here is a quick playlist for all the songs we love about the color red. Save it and play it often for different activities related to colors, shapes, numbers and daily objects you can use to help your toddler in his/ her learning process.

descriptive songs about the color red about food

These types of songs are perfect to practice during meals. You can encourage your toddler to point out, memorize, and name out loud the food he/she is eating, especially if it is red. Every morning during breakfast you can play this song to study and check if your toddler can recognize colors in things.

spelling songs

If your toddler is in the stage of learning to pronounce correctly letters and small words, these songs are perfect for it. They will help you to practice in a fun way to spell and how to pronounce the name of colors. Also, you´ll find a special track for colors in Spanish below.

Red, rojo

Descriptive songs about different colors

Is not only about red. These songs are specially made to practice the recognition of daily objects in other colors, the primary colors to start (yellow, blue, and red). This song will help your toddler to see and identify the color of things he/she sees daily kike dresses, hats, flowers, cars, food all in one song.

This playlist of songs about the color red is focused only on daily objects in Red. If you are teaching your kid only this color, I suggest you practice the recognition game with these songs. Also, you can add cards to play games as the song names things. It is a fun way to activate your toddler´s memory, pronunciation, and vocabulary.

Songs about means of transport

These songs are specifically made to call means of transport. They are perfect to play games with toys you have at home like little cars, trains, or trucks. If your toddler is really into cars and those things, these songs are perfect! You can encourage him (or her) to see the different colors in each car o truck he/she sees in his playroom or the streets. You need to handle the games and the learning process outside the house (not only in his/her comfort zone). These songs will inspire you and give you ideas to play and have fun with your kid.

songs about colors and shapes

These songs are perfect for lear two important things: colors and shapes. You can combine them with games with cards and things to learn the shape of things like fruits, flowers, toys, and daily stuff. Also, they are perfect to start the recognition process of sizes.

Singing, dancing and colors

Having fun it´s a very important part of the learning process. We all know the benefits of music in the learning process of a human being. This is a playlist you can use to encourage your toddler, to move her/ his body, and HAVE FUN. Also, I find these activities perfect to bond with your kid, so, take a special time during the day to play with them and enjoy them!

Songs about flowers (to play in the garden)

If you have a garden at home, these songs are perfect for you. Take your toddler outside and start practicing colors, shapes, and sizes with them.

Songs about colors and number

I particularly enjoy this type of song because allows me to practice many things at the same time: colors, shapes, and numbers. Take your time and use these songs to reinforce the learning process of your toddler while you have fun.

In this stage of their life, learning to identify colors helps your toddler to create a cognitive link between visual clues and words. As you know, there are many ways to improve your child´s development, music is one of the best ways to do that. While your toddler sings or listens to music, the brain develops the areas related to language and reasoning.
I hope you find this playlist useful. Don´t forget to share this article and also, share your experience in the comments.

10 Color Songs Videos to Teach How to Spell Color Words – KindergartenWorks

Teach color words with the ever-popular frog street press color songs. Here are the top color word songs on video, in my opinion, for kindergarten.

I don't know about you but we used these songs repeatedly to teach how to spell color words in kindergarten. In fact, I love using songs so much that I created more songs to teach every sight word required by our district!

I'll list the videos for each color and let you know what is listed for each color. Plus, I share how I taught a few of these songs to my five and six year old students with great success.

It's my hope that by listing these all in one place you won't have to go searching for them in the future. There are a few free printables and resources at the end so be sure to check them out.

Use songs to learn to spell color words

The color songs were used to help build up the number of sight words my students knew and they also functioned as shared reading pieces.

Once students were familiar with the songs, they would practice the new sight words in these literacy centers:

• library center (small printed books of the songs)
• big book center (large 11x17 printed version books of the songs
• poetry center (printed on to sentence strips and word cards)
• listening center (small printed books with CD of song played multiple times)
• abc center (stamp the color words)
• pokey pin center (pin the color words in a sentence/phrase)
• word work center (build with playdough)

Color songs for kindergarten

Let's start with the red color song. This one is pretty short and is a great introduction to learning sight words.

This song lists just two things that are red: firetrucks and stop signs. This is a very short song.

For that reason, it's usually the first or second song I teach and also because the letters R-E-D (or even r-e-d) look from one another. Makes it easier for new little kinder eyes to distinguish between at the beginning of the year.

This Y-E-L-L-O-W color song lists these yellow things: baby ducks, daffodils, the sun, lemonade, scrambled eggs and a smiley face.

I taught motions with this song because there are a lot of items in it. I just made up the motions so you can too! Just keep them consistent the next time you sing the song {wink}

Here is a yellow color song video you can download.

Sung to a familiar tune, the O-R-A-N-G-E color song feels a bit awkward to start but you'll quickly pick it up. It lists jack o'lanterns, oranges and carrots.

It's a great one to introduce after you've covered blue, red and yellow.

This is an orange color song video you can download.

Blue is the first or second color word I taught. The sky and the ocean are the only two things listed in it, which makes the blue color word song on the same level as the red one.

This B-L-U-E song speeds up at the end which is really fun for the kinders. They love it.

Here's another version of the B-L-U-E spells blue song. I add motions to this one so that when they speed up we can get really silly.

This is a blue color song video you can download.

While we were at our seats doing an art project I would put on a playlist of the songs (but without visuals as to not distract the easily distractable kinders - like by turning off your computer monitor). They would softly sing along as they worked and it was great review of all the songs keeping them fresh the whole year through.

The G-R-E-E-N song is one of my favorites. It may be because they have one or two other color words under their belt and pick up this one pretty fast as a result.

The green color word song lists: caterpillars and grasshoppers. It's easy to create motions for.

I love using this word later in the school year too as a way to teach the "ee" vowel pattern since they've seen it in this word a gazillion times.

The black color song feels kind of long and has a few more obtuse things in it... like do most kids even know what Sunday shoes are anymore? It's catchy though which is helpful since there a lot of things listed: bats, jelly beans, cats, Sunday shoes and Santa's boots.

If you're longing for the little printable book template that goes with the color books then you'll appreciate this next version of the B-L-A-C-K song.

Here is a black color song video you can download.

I used these printable little books and enlarged them onto colored construction paper. I laminated them and bound one side.

They made for a great first set of big books for our big book literacy center and made teaching the words whole group a little easier with such a large model.

Okay, I'll admit that the B-R-O-W-N song is my least favorite. it's sung to the tune of Bingo, which may have something to do with it... but it may be because there are a good number of things listed.

The brown song includes: teddy bears, chocolate milk, chocolate candies, leaves, chocolate cake and squirrels.

Here is a brown color song video you can download.

It also could be that this one was tough to come up with motions for {wink} We did a "hug" for teddy bear since it was the only thing I could come up with on the spot. But, no matter whether I like it or not, using songs to teach really does work!

It's one of the secrets of teaching kindergarten I used all the time.

What I haven't mentioned yet was that part of the motions for learning these color songs is that we sign the letters.

Yep - we use sign language to spell out each color word. We use sign language every day along with our alphabet chart so we get really good at fingerspelling.  Plus, I like to teach a few other signs to use so I can communicate across the classroom (or the gym during assembly) without speaking a word.

Being able to say, "Sit down!" or "Go!" without having to utter an actual word is pretty priceless... and goes a lot farther than just using the teacher eye I've perfected. Just sayin'

The purple song goes pretty fast for fingerspelling, but that makes it fun.

Here is an alternative P-U-R-P-L-E color song with a white background instead of balck in case that's easier on the eyes.

Purple includes these items: grapes and Kool-aid.

Here are two versions of the white color song. My kinders loved this color word song because they could get loud with saying "Boo!" and "Ho, ho, ho!"

The W-H-I-T-E song by frog street press has two verses and includes these white things: clouds, snow, ghosts, milk, glue and Santa's beard.

Here is a white color song video you can download.

And lastly - we've got the color pink.

I'll admit this one took me the longest to learn! The P-I-N-K color song goes fast because it is sung to the tune of Jingle Bells.

I usually saved this color song until later in the school year even though the word is shorter. You just don't see the word pink as often as the primary colors in most early leveled readers.

The pink color word song includes: cotton candy, pigs, Valentines, icing, bubble gum, balloons, girls with sock and bows.

Here is a pink color song video you can download.

More free resources to teach color words

As I was rounding all of these videos up for you, I came across a few free resources you might find handy.

If you want to snag the lyrics for these songs, then this list of color songs lyrics is quick to use.

You could always print this set of color song lyrics or this simplified color word poems version to hang in your classroom too.

If you have a smart board then this smartboard free file may be what you're looking for!

Conclusion

There you have it. The color songs (in video form) all in one place and my introduction to using them in the kindergarten classroom if you aren't using them already.

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Online English lesson "The colors of Rainbow" from the series #I want to know everything #StayHomeMissing

Online English lesson "The colors of Rainbow" from the series #I want to know everything

Rozaliya Khalitovna Syaidzhafyarova, educator of the bilingual group of Moscow State Budgetary Educational Institution “School No. 1998 “Lukomorye” (Moscow, Russia)

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Purpose: Development of communicative skills on the topic "Colours" (colors)
Tasks:

• Automation in speech, speech patterns: "What color is it?" "It is red", "I like...."
Educational:
• fostering a positive attitude towards learning English.
• education of accuracy, perseverance, independence. nine0019 Developing:
• development of intellectual and cognitive abilities: thinking, imagination, memory and attention.

Language material:

New: Rainbow
To repeat:
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple
It is…
I like…
What color is it?

Materials for the teacher:
- a picture of a rainbow;
- the image of the rain;
- video footage:
The song "Good morning" (The singing Walrus). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuI_p7a9VGs
Rainbow song (Kids TV123). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRNy2i75tCc

Materials for children:
- A4 white paper
- colored pencils
Expected results:
- Strengthen the ability to name colors using speech construction. It is…

I. Greeting

Teacher (T): Good morning, my dear girls and boys! How are you today? – I`m Ok.
And you?
(Children's answers)
That's fine. Let's sing together our favorite song "Good morning" and dance.

(Song with movement: "Good morning")

II. Communication of goals and objectives

T: Today we are going to speak about colours. Today we will continue to talk about different colors.

III. Phonetic Charging

T: Well, I see a gray cloud. Tell me, please: How's the weather? (Teacher shows a picture of rainy weather outside the window. Audio recording of rain sounds)
P: It`s rainy.
T: That's right! It's rainy! Put on your boot`s and coat and take your umbrella. (the teacher shows the movements of opening the umbrella). What a gray and cold rain, let's sing a song about the colors of the rainbow, maybe the clouds will stop frowning and the rain will pass.

(Motion song "Rainbow song")

IV. Activation of vocabulary on the topic "Colors"

T: That`s wonderful! Guys, look, the rain has passed, and what appeared in the sky? nine0013

(Teacher shows a picture of a rainbow)

P: Rainbow.
T: That's right! Rainbow in English: Rainbow. Let's repeat loud: RAINBOW!
P: RAINBOW
T: Let`s repeat quiet: rainbow
P: Rainbow.
T: Look at the rainbow. It's big and bright. It has many colors. Let's name them! I see red.

(Children name the colors of the rainbow)

P1: I see orange
P2: I see green…
T: That`s right! Let's have a rest and dance. nine0013

V. Physical education minute

Hello, hello rainbow! (children wave in greeting)
Stretch up high to rainbow (children stretch up high to rainbow)
Smile and jump to rainbow (children smile and jump in place)
Turn around and say "Bye-bye" (turn in place)

V. Practice

T: That`s wonderful. look! What is in my bag?

P: Pencils

T: That's right. Guys, let's draw a "Rainbow" with you so that the sun shines and it doesn't rain again. nine0013

Take your albums and pencils. Let's draw with me. Take a red pencil and draw a red arch. Take an orange pencil and draw orange arch ... (Children, together with the teacher, take turns drawing the curves of the rainbow).

VI. Summing up the lesson.

T: Now girls and boys, show me, please your rainbow. Ohhh, it's so wonderful. Do you like your drawings? thank you. Bye-bye!

Colors and color idioms in English with translation

Colors in English are a rich and interesting layer of vocabulary and phraseology. In works of art, you will find not only elegant color names like ebony (ebony) and ivory (ivory), but also various colloquial expressions and idioms with colors.

In this collection we will look at the main colors, that is, the most used in speech, a more detailed list of colors, "color" expressions, idioms, and various spelling nuances. Pronunciation and translation are given in electronic cards.

See also: "Exercise: Colors in English".

Contents:

• Basic English color names with translation
• Extended color list in English
• Shades in English: dark, light, bright
• Suffix -ish: reddish, greenish, brownish
• Writing colors with a hyphen
• Color or Colour? Gray or Grey?
• Comparative and superlative colors in English
• English blue
• The Colors of the Rainbow in English in Newton's Children's Songs and Writings
• English idioms with flowers (with translation)
  • Black Idioms
  • Blue Idioms
  • Gray idioms
  • Pink Idioms
  • Red idioms
  • White idioms
  • Yellow Idioms
• English comparative expressions such as "pitch black", "ghost white"

The main names of colors in English with translation

For everyday speech, these colors are more than enough, because we rarely use the colors "cornflower blue", "heavenly", "azure" in conversation. It's easier to just say "blue". Even if it's not blue, but cornflower blue or azure. We rarely say "light green", "emerald" - we simplify to green. It is the same in English, for communication it is enough to know these colors. nine0215

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Extended list of colors in English

But if you strive for accuracy in color expression and can distinguish hundreds of colors (this is found in nature), then here is a slightly more extended list.

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Only three words will help diversify the speech palette dark, light, bright and one suffix -ish . In addition, if the color name is an adjective, it can form degrees of comparison (see below).

Shades in English: dark, light, bright

In Russian, the words dark, light, bright can be added to the name of the colors , in English they correspond to the words dark (dark), light (bright), bright (bright).

Light orange - light orange,

Dark red

Bright green - bright green.

Suffix -ish: reddish, greenish, brownish

There are objects of such colors that you can’t immediately understand what to call it. In Russian, we then say, for example, not “red”, but “reddish”. So it looks like red, but not really. In English, the suffix -ish performs a similar function.

Redd ish - reddish,

Green ish - greenish,

Brown ish - brownish.

Writing complex colors with a hyphen and separately

In Russian, pale pink, blue-green, golden-violet and other complex (two or more words) colors are written with a hyphen. In English it's a little different.

Hyphenated complex adjectives of color are written before nouns:

A dark green cover

Without a hyphen, the same adjectives are written:

a) after the verb:

The cover was dark green. — The cover was dark green.

b) when using color names as nouns:

A dark green. — Dark green color.

Color or Colour? Gray or Grey?

There is a slight spelling difference between the American and British variants in the names of colors, concerning the words color/colour, gray/gray. nine0013

Comparative and superlative colors in English

Colors can be used as nouns. For example, greens - green (protectors of nature). But most often the names of colors in English are adjectives. Accordingly, they can form degrees of comparison according to general rules. nine0013

This paint is black . This paint is black.

This paint is blacker . — This paint is blacker.

This paint is the blackest . — This paint is the blackest.

Blue in English

There is no English word for blue as we understand it. The name and perception of colors, especially the emotional one, is very different in different languages ​​and cultures. Historically, in the Germanic languages ​​(which include English), the range of colors in which we distinguish the colors "blue" and "blue" is covered by one word "blue". nine0013

This does not mean that the British do not see blue. They see, of course, just call it “dark blue” (dark blue), or some kind of “purple” (purple), or even “indigo” (indigo).

On the other hand, there are two purple words in English, purple and violet. Both names are usually translated into Russian as "violet", although in fact "violet" is darker and closer to what we call "violet", and "purple" is closer to lilac or purple.

The colors of the rainbow in English in children's songs and Newton's writings

But if there is no blue (as we understand it) in English, what is the corresponding color of the rainbow called? It is called indigo (indigo) or purple (violet, lilac).

Strictly speaking, there are not seven, but dozens, if not hundreds, of colors in the rainbow, but for simplicity, Newton singled out five main ones: red (red), green (green), yellow (yellow), blue (blue) and violet (violet ). He later added blue (indigo) and orange (orange) as he shared the assumption of ancient Greek scholars that there was some connection between the seven colors of the rainbow, notes, celestial bodies and days of the week. nine0013

For the English colors of the rainbow there is a memory phrase, analogous to our "Every Hunter Wants to Know Where the Pheasant Sits":

Richard (red) Of (orange) York (yellow) Gave (green) Battle (blue) In ( indigo) Vain (violet).

Sometimes there are other variants of the names of the colors of the rainbow. In English there is no such indestructible order of rainbow colors as in Russian, in children's songs there are other names:

For example, here is a video in English - a children's song about the colors of the rainbow. Here, the part of the rainbow that we are used to seeing as blue is shown in purple. And instead of purple - pink (pink).

But in this song the colors are named strictly in Newtonian, with indigo and violet.

English idioms with colors (with translation)

As in many languages, in English a significant number of idioms are associated with the names of colors. In any culture, colors have not only applied, but also symbolic meaning, so they simply cannot but be used in a figurative sense. Some idioms almost verbatim coincide with their Russian counterparts, for example:

to give the green light - give green light (permission)

look at the world through rose-colored glasses - look at the world in rose-colored glasses

But more often the expression of thought does not match in form.

black sheep

grass is always greener on the other side (of the fence) - well, where we are not (literally: the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence)

Color names are used figuratively. For example, black box (black box) is called black because it is designed for use in a black, tragic case - during a plane crash. In fact, the black box is painted bright orange to make it easier to find. By the way, in some cultures black is not associated with mourning.

Some expressions arose in connection with some everyday situations. For example, the idioms to be in the black (to succeed, have a lot of money) and to be in the red (to owe money) appeared due to the fact that accountants wrote down a positive balance in black ink, and debts, losses in red.

There are idioms with more complex origins. The expression white elephant means something useless, but expensive to maintain, a burden. According to Wikipedia, “the origin of the expression is connected with a legend according to which the king of Siam gave a white elephant to unwanted faces. White elephants were considered sacred animals and were not used as workers. The cost of keeping an elephant bankrupted the recipient of such a gift.” nine0013

Black idioms

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