Toddler Learning: The Color Yellow

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Books: 

- Five Little Ducks 

- Edible Colors 

- All the Colors of Busyland

Activities: 

- Find and collect yellow leaves from outside 

- Help make scrambled eggs

- Sort yellow blocks and pegs 

- Watch Five Little Ducks video and play with duck paper plates (find out more here: http://m.lifeovercs.com/fd6skx5/articles/69484/Five-Little-Ducks-on-the-Pond-Gross-Motor-Activity)

Crafts: 

- Use yellow markers to color yellow animals

- Place puffy bumble bee stickers in a bumble bee "jar" and count them

Food: 

- scrambled eggs

- avocado (yellow and green)

Peach Balsamic Chicken

Ingredients:

• 1 sweet onion, chopped
• 4 - 6 springs of rosemary
• 1 1/2 teaspoons of salt
• 1/2 teaspoon of pepper
• 3 peaches, sliced
• 1/4 cup of honey
• 3/4 cup balsamic vinegar
• 3 - 4 chicken breasts

Instructions:

 

1. Preheat oven to 375
2. In a pan saute onion in olive oil or coconut oil until clear, then add rosemary, salt, pepper, and peaches for about five minutes
3. Add honey and balsamic vinegar and simmer for 5 minutes
4. Place chicken in greased baking pan and pour mixture over.
5. Bake for 75 minutes 

Note: Use extra peach sauce as a dressing on spinach and almond salad - delicious

Toddler Learning: The Color Red

Now that baby R is here and everyone is going back to school, I felt it was time B and I had something to focus on each week. So, this fall we will focus on colors first (with a dash of numbers, learning about fall, and farm animals). 

We began with the color red! 

How do I break our week down? 

Books: 

- Ilama Ilama Red Pajama 

- The Little Red Hen

- Edible Colors 

- All the Colors of Busyland

- The Color Red

- Red, Blue, and Yellow Too

Activities: 

-Shop for the red food in the play kitchen and sort in a muffin tin

- Find and collect red leaves from outside 

- Go apple picking 

Crafts: 

- Make a red hen

- Use red ladybug stickers on a coloring page 

Food: 

- Strawberry smoothies 

- Homemade pizza with red sauce, pepperoni, and red peppers 

Next week is the color green!