*A good rule of thumb for encouraging children to use many colors in their drawings is to ask them to use as many colors as they are in age. If they are four years old they should use at least 4 different crayons; if they are five years old they should use five colors, etc.
*As you read books to the class, explain the illustrator’s name. Have children notice details in illustrations. Why is it important to add details? Remind them when they draw pictures they are illustrators, too, and they should add lots of details to make their pictures more interesting.
*Encourage children to close their eyes and think about what they want to draw before they begin coloring. “Get a picture in your brain and then you’ll know what you want your picture to look like. It’s like telling a story with your crayons.”
*Keep a box for “lost crayons” on a shelf so children have a place to put crayons that get misplaced.
*Use mint tins to store crayons when boxes fall apart.
A Coloring We’ll Go
(Tune: “A Hunting We Will Go” – ALL DAY LONG CD)
A coloring we’ll go.
A coloring we’ll go.
Hi ho, it’s fun you know,
A coloring we’ll go.
Use straight and curvy lines.
Use straight and curvy lines.
With yellow, purple, green, and orange,
We’ll make our picture fine. (Chorus)
The details we will draw.
The details we will draw.
Imagine all the little things.
The details we will draw. (Chorus)
We’ll fill in the page.
We’ll fill in the page.
Use as many colors
As you are in age.
A coloring we’ll go.
A coloring we’ll go.
We’ll put them in the box and close the top
When we’re through, you know.
*Children can learn to read the color words.
*More advanced children can learn to spell the color words.
The Color Farm
(Tune: “BINGO” - Sing to Learn CD)
There was a farmer had a cat
And Black was her name-o
B-L-A-C-K (Clap on each letter.)
B-L-A-C-K
B-L-A-C-K
And Black was her name-o.
Dog – BROWN
Cow – PURPLE
Horse – GREEN
Duck – ORANGE
Bird – BLUE
Chick – YELLOW
Pig – RED
Activities:
Use the attached patterns to make stick puppets that the children can hold up as you sing.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1SnEagA4jljOFhmSUZiNzNXZVk/view?usp=sharing
Write the color word and put a picture clue by it on a sentence strip. Pass these out for the children to hold up as you sing.
Cut a 7” circle out of the top of a file folder. Add ears, tails, and other features for each animal. Children hold it up around their face as you sing.
Make up additional verses for other colors. For example, a pink flamingo, tan turtle, grey goat, white sheep, etc.
We’ll put them in the box and close the top
When we’re through, you know.
This is a song your students will enjoy singing, but there are lots of standards “camouflaged” here.
*This song reinforces the concept that when you put letters together you make a word.*Children can learn to read the color words.
*More advanced children can learn to spell the color words.
The Color Farm
(Tune: “BINGO” - Sing to Learn CD)
There was a farmer had a cat
And Black was her name-o
B-L-A-C-K (Clap on each letter.)
B-L-A-C-K
B-L-A-C-K
And Black was her name-o.
Dog – BROWN
Cow – PURPLE
Horse – GREEN
Duck – ORANGE
Bird – BLUE
Chick – YELLOW
Pig – RED
Activities:
Use the attached patterns to make stick puppets that the children can hold up as you sing.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1SnEagA4jljOFhmSUZiNzNXZVk/view?usp=sharing
Write the color word and put a picture clue by it on a sentence strip. Pass these out for the children to hold up as you sing.
Cut a 7” circle out of the top of a file folder. Add ears, tails, and other features for each animal. Children hold it up around their face as you sing.
Make up additional verses for other colors. For example, a pink flamingo, tan turtle, grey goat, white sheep, etc.