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 

Toddler Learning: The Color Green

Books: 

- Jump Frog Jump

- Why Are Animas Green? 

- Edible Colors 

- All the Colors of Busyland

Activities: 

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

- Find and collect green leaves from outside 

- Dye the bath tub water green and play with green bath toys

- Sort green blocks 

Crafts: 

- Make a green turtle craft (see pic below)

- Paint green animals

Food: 

- Greenbeans

- Green bell peppers 

I used construction paper to cut out the limbs, tail, and head of the turtle. Then I taped them on the plate. I cut up different shades of green construction paper and let my LO glue them on. Then he colored the edges with different green crayons. Super easy and fun! 

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!