Colors
Books:
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?  - Bill Martin Jr.
Mouse Paint - Ellen Stoll Walsh
Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Suess
Blueberries For Sal - Robert McCloskey
Growing Colors - Bruce McMillan
Web Sites:
Can Teach - Wonderful color songs and poems.
Child Fun - Color activities
Kinder Art - Painting activities
Color Activities
Graphing:
Favorite Color
Color of eyes

Estimating:
Colorful food is fun.  Children
can eat after estimating. Record
their estimations.

Red - red jelly beans
Brown - chocolate kisses
Yellow - lemon drops
White - mini marshmallows
Orange - fish-shaped crackers
Black - cut-up licorice
Green - grapes
Blue- blueberries
Purple - grapes
Mixing Colors

Use food coloring with
water to show:

Yellow + Red = Orange

Blue + Red = Purple

Yellow + Blue = Green
Make a Color Wheel

Cut out tagboard circles. Draw
lines on the wheel to  divide the
wheel into 6 pie sections.  Have
the children color the sections  
beginning with
yellow, then
orange, red, purple, blue and
green.   You could also stick a
pencil through the middle of the
color wheel to make a spinnng
wheel.
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