Color Your World

There are a ton of books about colors! Last week for Tales for Twos, our theme was colors.

We read Dog's Colorful Day by Emma Dodd- too cute! I found a picture of the dog online and printed it and drew a larger version, so as I read the story I could add the colored spots to the dog. I also printed a dog for each child and provided the spots to take home!

We also read The Artist Who Painted a Horse Blue by Eric Carle. I love this book because it shows familiar objects that any child would recognize in different colors- as he sees them and as a child might see them. Here is a review of the book which speaks to the importance of it better than I could:

Every child has an artist inside them, and this vibrant picture book from Eric Carle will help let it out. The artist in this book paints the world as he sees it, just like a child. There's a red crocodile, an orange elephant, a purple fox and a polka-dotted donkey. More than anything, there's imagination. Filled with some of the most magnificently colorful animals of Eric Carle's career, this tribute to the creative life celebrates the power of art.

We did Hokey Pokey Colors with crepe paper streamers- you put blue in, you put blue out, you put blue in and shake it all about, etc.

We finished with Red Car, Red Bus by Susan Steggall. Great book for colors, patterns, sequencing and more. It would be great to print out the vehicles in the book and use them as manipulatives while you read the story and afterward use them to make up your own pattern. Perfect, simple, free activity! (Didn't have time to do it in our program)

I gave everyone materials to make a "color book".