Learning Activities
Color Activities
Color Clue Game - Let's learn our Primary Colors in a FUN way! Let's go on a Color Clue journey. The weather is just right to get outside and learn our primary colors. Show your little one what colors you will be looking for. Focus only on red, yellow and blue and go on a nice walk or hop in the car. You can make it more exciting by giving them clues as to what colored object you are looking for. For example - It's big, has wheels, has a siren, and puts out fires - A RED firetruck! If it's not a day to go outside, you can explore the primary colors with us on this fun filled primary color learning video.
Frosting Color Fun - Let's have some fun in the kitchen with this activity.
Ingredients needed - 2 cups powdered sugar
1 stick of room temperature butter
1 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla
2 tablespoons of milk
3 drops of red food coloring
3 drops of yellow food coloring
3 drops of blue food coloring
Mix the butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, and milk together. It's always fun to let your little one help with that. Now for the really fun part! Divide out the frosting into 3 bowls, and put 3 drops of red coloring in one, 3 drops of yellow coloring in one, and 3 drops of blue in the final bowl. Mix those all of up, and watch all of your primary colors come to life. If you want to take it one step further, you can get 3 more bowls and show how secondary colors are made. Mix some red frosting and yellow frosting to make orange. Mix some yellow and blue frosting to make green, and mix some red frosting and blue frosting to make purple! Now, for the best part, put the frosting on some cupcakes, cookies, or even a cake, and of course enjoy a big bite of your yummy kitchen creation! How much fun is that?!!! If you would like a little help or just want to watch this fun activity, check out this video!
Handprints Everywhere - How about a paint project to teach your love bug all about colors?
Ingredients needed - One white t-shirt
Red fabric paint
Yellow fabric paint
Blue fabric paint
8 paper plates
Trashbag or plastic tablecloth for easy clean up
Lay trash bag or plastic tablecloth down on table before starting.
Put red paint on a paper plate, yellow paint on another paper plate, and blue paint on another paper plate. Make sure to put enough for your lil bunny's hand to get nice and covered as they are going to make handprints with the paint. Now, you can go over red hand, yellow hand and blue hand and can start creating your masterpiece by getting paint on palm of your lil one's hand and putting a print on the shirt. After you have completed red, yellow, and blue, you can go on to secondary colors. Your little one can help you mix the colors. So, on the fourth plate you can get some red and yellow paint to make orange. The next plate you can mix red and blue to make purple, and the 6th plate you can mix yellow and blue to make green. Now they can put 3 more hand prints on the shirt. Now, you have two plates left. How about get creative? How about pink, with some white and red, or how about mixing red, yellow, and green to make brown? This a very interactive fun activity to help teach your lil one all about colors! If you need a little inspiration, please check out this video!
