Toddler Learning: The Color Brown

Last week we focused on the color brown. Seems drab, but the color brown is all around us just waiting to be explored!

Books: 

- Brown Bear, Brown Bear

- Five Little Monkeys 

- In My Jungle (a finger puppet book) 

- In My Forest (a finger puppet book)

Activities: 

- Find and collect brown leaves and pine cones  from outside 

- Put together heads and tails for the Brown Bear characters (link here: http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.com/BrowBearBrownBear.html)

- Act out Five Little Monkeys with finger puppets or printables (you can print monkeys and put them on Popsicle sticks as well) 

Crafts: 

- Use stamps, such as, footballs, bears, and horses and stamp them in the color brown

- Color or paint brown animals 

- Paper Plate Owl Craft (see link: http://easypreschoolcraft.blogspot.com/2012/04/flying-owl-paper-plate-craft.html?m=1) 

Food: 

- Make brownies together 

- Use peanut butter 

- Baked potatoes