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Domestic Animal Counters
Fruit Counters
Vegetable Counters
Transportation Counters

Sand Art Bottles - Kit for 12 Decorate your own little sand bottle with this fun art kit.

Color Paddles - 18 Pieces Designed for use in sand clay and modeling activities these 18 colored translucent paddles can be put on top of each other to illustrate how to combine colors to make new colors. 3 each of Blue Green Orange Purple Red and Yellow. 2W x 6H.

Color Sorting Mat - 20 pieces As infants become toddlers they begin to use their senses to explore the space around their world. This is also the time children begin to use eye-hand coordination to solve problems and match like items. Our exclusive color sorting mat gives children an opportunity to use shape color and texture to begin that exploration. Ages 18 months and up.

Book or eBooks

Puppet & Flannelboard Stories for Numbers, Shapes, and Colors Use finger plays, flannelboard stories, and puppets to hold young learners' attention while they learn basic concepts. Stories, directions, and patterns for the puppets and flannelboard pieces are provided along with many activities.

Counting 0 to 31 Bulletin Board This handy teaching aid helps children learn numbers, colors, shapes, and counting. Includes 34 pieces, a 4-page Teacher's Guide, and shiny, protective coating for durability.

Crayons with English and Spanish Felt Set Introduce colors and their bilingual names using crayons. This beautiful set of felt crayons makes a perfect classroom teaching tool using Spanish overlay words. 10 crayons 2.5Introduce colors and their bilingual names using crayons. This beautiful set of felt crayons makes a perfect classroom teaching tool using Spanish overlay words. 10 crayons 2.5ö by 14ö. Includes lesson guide with resources and worksheets. Ages Pre-K.

Activities
Play with the color of play dough you like.

Have them paint with paints or water colors.  Have them mix the colors.  Let them do whatever with them.

Super-Safe Droppers - Set of 12 The best tool for drizzling Liquid Watercolor! Plastic transparent 1-piece eyedroppers allow young artists to drop paint in tight spaces to create more colorful effects! Customize artwork and create detailed designs. A safer and better alternative to other needle-tipped art tools. 6 long with 1 1/2 bulb.

Color By Number & Color By Letter

Book Link
StoryPlace Pre-school Library: Reading List

Nursery Rhymes & Songs

Books

Mouse Paint by Ellen Stroll Walsh
Pinta Ratones por Ellen Stroll Walsh

Cooking
- Mouse Paint Toast
Read the book again while doing this activity so they can mix the right colors.

Directions:
For each color, take 1 tablespoon milk (rice/soy/cow's) and 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon sugar and mix it.  This makes quite a few pieces of toast.
If you want to make lots of colors to practice making colors or if if you have more children or students, you will need to make more.

Place some of the milk mixture in small bowls or cups.
Repeat this 3 times.
Add red, yellow, and blue food coloring in separate jars, glasses, small margarine containers, or other containers.
It takes 1 drop to make each color. (Pretend this is Mouse Paint.)
Take a piece of white bread (Pretend it is a piece of white paper.)
Paint the bread with some of the milk using a pastry brush or small paint brush.
Mix some of the red with some of the yellow and see what color it makes (orange).
Mix some of the yellow with the blue and see what color it makes (green).
Mix some of the blue with some of the red and see what color it makes (purple).
Put the bread in the oven or a toaster oven.
Take it out when it is lightly brown.

Note: Make sure you tell your children the difference between food coloring and paint you use to paint a picture and why they can eat food coloring and not paint.

- Make Marbelized Eggs using different colors of food coloring.

- Make sugar cookies or  dairy-free sugar cookies and have them mix different food colorings for the frosting.

- Make geletin or geletin jigglers.

Foreign Language
You can do the colors in Spanish or any other language.
English & Spanish Flashcards and Worksheets: Colors

Games
Musical Shapes Game

Age Level: Toddlers through Early Elementary Grades

Materials needed:  Different colored circles cut from colored paper or fabric; sing a song, recorded music or instruments (tape or CD)
Tape or place the circles on the floor in a large circle.  Have the children walk around the outside of the large circle as music is played.  When the music stops, each child names the color of the circle he or she is standing by.  Continue as long as the children are interested.  For variation, use different shapes and colors and have the children name the color and the shape.

What Color Am I?
Copyright 2000 Barbara Pratt.  All rights reserved.

Grade Level: Preschool and Early Elementary Education

I am thinking of a color that is the color of the sky.
What color am I? (Blue).
I am thinking of a color that is the color of the sun.
What color am I? (Yellow).
I am thinking of a color that is the color of grass.
What color am I? (Green).
I am thinking of a color that is the color of milk.
What color am I? (White).
I am thinking of a color that is the color of a lemon
What color am I? (Yellow).
I am thinking of a color that is the color of a lime
What color am I? (Green).
I am thinking of a color that is the color of an orange
What color am I? (Orange). For older children use tangerine instead of orange.

Use your own ideas to finish this game.

Color Hand Game
Use two pieces 8 1/2 x11 inch white computer paper or  9x12 inch construction paper and trace your left hand (or right hand if your left handed) to the wrist.  Cut it out.  Turn it so the thumb faces the left.  Color each finger a little above the cut part of the hand a different color (for example; blue, red, pink, black, yellow, white, purple, gray, green, brown, orange, etc.).  Label each color above the cut part of the finger.  Laminate or place clear contact paper on it.  Cut it out (no need to cut each finger out except the thumbs).  With a straight pen or needle, make a small hole about the middle about where the thumb is on the hand patterns.  Use a brad to reinforce it (make sure it not that tight so it will spin) and place a small paper clip under the brad.  Staple the hands together by the brad and on the upside down hand.  Use masking tape or heavier tape and tape it on a small piece of poster board.  Have the children play the game to help reinforce color skills.  Have the children say the color each time a different color is spinned.  Repeat the game.

Color Game
In a container or box, have different colors pom-poms or pieces of paper in it.  Have the child say the color he/she choose.  Have them spell the word (or you can if they don't know how to read yet).  You can learn the colors in another language and have the child say the colors in Spanish or any other language.  Have them spell the word in the other language or you can.

Online Story
You need to read these to non-readers.
Colorworm teaches about color and light - freebies
Missing Color

My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss

My Many Colored Days
My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss at Seussvile
Things to Do on a Rainy Colored Day, What Color are Your Days?, Make your own Many Colored Bookmark!, and About the Illustrators

My Links
Color By Number & Letter
De Colores (In Colors) 4-6 Grade
Online Coloring
Rainbow Theme
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Themes Color any coloring page.

Black
Nursery Rhyme: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Nursery Rhyme: My Black Hen

Books
Black Books
The Cowboy and the Black-Eyed Pea by Tony Johnston

Blue

Rhyme: Little Boy Blue

Books
Blue Books
Big Blue Engine by Ken Wilson-Max for babies & preschoolers

Blue Cow in the Playground Online Story @ BBC

Brown

Brown Books

Bear Theme: Brown Bear and Grizzly Bear

Gray Books

Home Economics
Make lime gelatin.
Color some coconut (or rice cold cereal) green.  Sprinkle on frosted cupcakes, cookies, or cake.

Holiday Green Salad or Pistachio Fruit Salad

Green Books

Dr. Seuss Theme: Green Eggs and Ham
Green Eggs and Ham Book in Spanish

Five Little Ornaments on the Tree Flannelboard Story
Play Red Light / Green Light.
Green Beans

SchoolExpress.com: Ages 3-6: Click on "Color Words", and go down to the green page.  It has T-Shirt, Crayon, Color, Trace & Print the  Word, and Color & Find the words with Green.  On these pages, they have the word "Green" and other things that you can do on each page.

Purple
Purple Books

Red Books

Games
Red Light / Green Light
Games Kids Play - Red Rover

Stories
Little Red Riding Hood @ BBC

Silver Books

White

White Books

Home Economics
Cook white rice, Mexican Wedding Cakes, cookies or donuts with powdered sugars sprinkles on top.

Snow, Snowflakes and Ice Themes

Yellow

Yellow Books

Green Tree Python It is usually yellow when it is a baby.

Color Theme Unit: Yellow Color Page @ abcteach A sun a the word "yellow" to trace.

Sun Theme
Sunflower and Other Flower Themes

Art
One a piece of paper, use yellow crayons, markers or paint to draw or paint a picture.

Activity
Play with yellow playdough.