Color war activity ideas how to#

Make blueberry milkshakes and add blue food coloring. Wear it during the color blue days.Įat blueberries. Let children spread glue on their pies and add the blueberry circles.Ĭut out and color blue ribbons that say 'Blue Is Wonderful.' Let children choose a blue ribbon to attach to their clothes. Draw and cut small blue circles on blue craft paper or let children use a hole punch to punch small circles out of dark blue paper. Color Blue ActivitiesĬut a pie shape out of tan craft paper. Repeat this with all the colors allowing the children to show you the colors. Where is red? (Bring one hand up with all fingers showing.) Paint the fingers of a pair of white gloves the following colors: red, yellow, blue, green, and orange, so that you have two of each color. Then, sing this song: Sing the following song and let children point to a (color) item: Add drops of blue and yellow food coloring into the bag, seal the bag, and tip it back and forth to see the colors blend and turn green. Pour light corn syrup or shaving cream into a recloseable plastic bag.

Color war activity ideas how to#

Show children how to make the color green. Discuss other primary colors that make secondary colors, such as red and yellow make orange and blue and red make purple. Talk about how the two primary colors, yellow and blue when mixed together, make green (which is a secondary color). Read the book Little Yellow, Little Blue by Leo Lionni. Reading /Language Arts: Little Yellow, Little Blue With children, brainstorm a list of things that are green: apple, artichoke, avocado, broccoli, cactus, caterpillar, celery, cucumber, emerald, fern, frog, grass, grasshopper, iguana, ivy, leaf, lettuce, luna moth, lettuce, lime, olive, parrot, peas, pickle, pine tree, praying mantis, shamrock, spinach, turtle, zucchini.