Colours and Shapes

Colours and Shapes

 

Storytime – Welcome Song and Storytime is Starting song.

Read first story Are Eggs Square?, Open This Little Book, Lots of Dots or One

Fingerplay: Colour

Blue is the Lake, (point to the floor)
Yellow is the sun (point to the sky)
Silver are the stars,
When the day is done, (wiggle fingers in the air) Red is the apple, (make circle with hands)
Green is the tree (raise arms over head like branches)
Brown is a chocolate chip cookie for you and me! (rub tummy))

Read second story I Know a Wee Piggy, Round is a Pancake or The Black Book of Colors

Sing:  Find the Colour

Oh, can you find the colour red,
The color red, the colour red?
Oh, can you find the colour red,
Somewhere in this room

 

Substitute the names of other colours for red.

Read third story Ned's New Home, The Shape of my Heart or Everything I Need to Know Before I'm Five

Sing: If You're Wearing Red - Sung to If You're Happy And You Know It

If you are wearing red shake your head
If you are wearing red shake your head If you are wearing red
Then please shake your head
If you are wearing red shake your head

Additional Verses:

Blue, touch your shoe
Green, bow like a queen
Yellow, shake like Jell-O
Brown, turn around
Pink, give us a wink

Colors

The world is full of colors.
The coldest color I can think of is...
The warmest color I can think of is...
The softest color I can think of is...
The scariest color I can think of is...
When I think of yellow, I think of...
When I think of red, I think of...
When I think of blue, I think of...
When I think of green, I think of...
My favorite color for a house is...
My favorite color for a flower is..
The funniest color I can think of is...
The color that makes me the happiest is...

Craft: Painting with Water

Tissue paper squares, coffee filter, foam plate, water, paint brush

Use wet paint brush to stick the tissue paper squares to the coffee filter. The dye from the tissue will transfer to the coffee filter. Remove the squares when dry. Can use them to make flowers with a pipe cleaner stem. 

Idea from Mess for Less