Colors

Take a box of colorful cereal (like froot loops) and pour your child a small bowl. Have them sort the cereal by color into small cups or bowls. Works on visual discrimination, fine motor, vocabulary, and sensory input.

More advanced: Take colored pipe cleaners and string the cereal on matching pipe cleaners. Increases fine motor coordination above just sorting into bowls.

Make your own multi-colored rice to use instead of sand. Pour 1 cup of uncooked white rice into a Ziploc bag or bowl. Put in 1 tablespoon of alcohol (or vinegar) and 6-8 drops of food coloring. Mix by shaking the bags or stirring the bowl. Spread it out to dry on a cookie sheet until completely dry (about 15-30 minutes). Do this again for each color you want. Put into a large container and use kitchen utensils to practice scooping, stirring and pouring. *I use alcohol because it dries more quickly and disinfects the rice. Make sure it is completely dry before allowing children to play if you use the alcohol. Works on communication, vocabulary, motor skills, utensil usage for feeding and sensory input by touching.

Offer your child a choice when dressing. Do you want the red shirt or the blue shirt? Do you want the green pants or the pink skirt? Works on increasing communication by requesting, learning independence by making choices and color vocabulary.

Make your own sidewalk chalk paint. Put 2 tablespoons of cornstarch into each cup of a muffin pan. Add 2 tablespoons of cold water and about 6 drops of food coloring to each cup and stir. Take it outside and paint the sidewalk with the mixture. Works on fine motor skills, cognition and communication when they request different colors.

Put paint into Ziploc bags and tape shut. Then let your child move the paint around in the bag, mixing the colors. Works on fine motor skills, cognition and communication when they label different colors.

Asking each colorful animal what it sees, and ending with children and a teacher.

Pete keeps stepping in things on his walk that change the color of his shoes, but it is all ok.

White rabbit jumps in buckets of colors, causing his fur to change color. Color mixing.

A train with different colored cars runs through town.

Green bear paints his house to match the seasons.

Red Rhino loses his balloon. Can you help him find it?

Red light stop, green light go

Red light stop, green light go

Red - stop, green - go

Red light, green light, now you know

Oh, let's go for a drive in my yellow car.

Let's go for a drive, we won't go too far.

Let's go for a drive in my yellow car.

Let’s go buy some bananas.

Orange - Pumpkin

Red car - Strawberries

Green car - Broccoli

Blue car - Blueberries

Brown car - Potatoes

Purple car - Grapes

My favorite color’s blue,

how ‘bout you, how ‘bout you?

My favorite color’s blue,

how ‘bout you, how ‘bout you?

My favorite color’s red.

I like red. I like red.

My favorite color’s red.

I like red. I like red.

Colors, colors,

what’s your favorite color?

Colors, colors,

what’s your favorite color?

Green, Yellow, Orange, Purple

Rainbow, rainbow high and bright

Rainbow, rainbow made of light.

From the clouds down to the ground

I see colors all around.

Red, orange, yellow, green, and blue

Indigo and violet too.