ART- ROY G BIV: Rainbow hair

Hello my name is ROY G BIV

 

WAIT FOR IT, or skip the intro. It's an animated video/song and not a live. 

ART

I found this super cute idea on Read-write-sing.blogspot.com

That morning for sign-in I had them cut out ta circle and write their name. For a later fine-motor activity I had them cut their own rainbow hair strips.

 

The Crayon Box That Talked- MLK extention

All Colors Are Beautiful

Book and craft:

 http://www.amazon.com/The-Crayon-Box-that-Talked

ART/Science
We also reviewed our primary colors and sang out mixing color song. Click HERE to go to my mixing colors post

 

 

 Mixing Primary Colors to the tune of "ten little Indians" 

Red and Yellow makes orange
Yellow and Blue makes green
Blue and Red makes purple
I love mixing colors

 

Read Out Loud: The Crayon Box That Talked 

 

 



All About Primary Colors

Mixing Colors Ideas

Here are a few color activities that I do with my kids during our "All About Colors" week.

This is a fun way to help children learn how colors are made by mixing primary colors. I teach my kids the following song, unfortunately  I don't remember the name of the tune.

Red and yellow makes orange

Yellow and Blue makes green

Blue and red makes purple

I love mixing colors!

In the morning we always sign-in and do a quiet morning activity. This is an example from this week that promotes fine-motor skills, as well as color recognition. I made this worksheet on word. 

I decided to do this wonderful art/science idea that I found on pinterest.

 We did a partner art activity and explored the concept of primary colors. They really enjoyed picking a friend and getting messy. 

On another day we read mouse paint, and did this. I must admit my kids were more entertained with the youtube mouse paint readout loud. This version of mouse paint they enjoyed; here is the youtube link: Mouse Paint

This was another fun way to reinforce primary colors, that was very effective. You can find the worksheet at the link below. 

mixing colors FREE printable

Click here for MIXING COLORS LESSON #1 

All About Colors

Mouse Paint-  Science + Art activity

This is one of the activities the kids love. I highly recommend  it for all ages, of course with lots of supervision and assistance with the little ones. I am an advocate for exposure to more advance curriculum.

I sang while they painted each mouse on a mixing color worksheet, found below. You can sing my song however you'd like or make up your own song.  I realized that this was making the finger painting even more engaging. Sung to the tune of "London bridges", I would sing:


This mouse is in the blue paint, the blue paint, the blue paint
This mouse is in the blue paint, he's all blue

This mouse is in the yellow, in the yellow, in the yellow
This mouse is in the yellow, he's all yellow

*Ask : I wonder what color Blue and Yellow make?

Together they are making (pause, let them observe and say it first)GREEN, making green, making green
Together they are making green, mixing is fun...

and repeat for other colors

Here is the FREE PRINTABLE ON TPT for the mouse paint science activity, it's FREE 

I also teach them a song about mixing primary colors to the tune of "ten little Indians" 

Red and Yellow makes orange
Yellow and Blue makes green
Blue and Red makes purple
I love mixing colors

We sang this while doing our science activity. 
in advance I made 3 ice cubes of each primary color with food coloring. 

BE CAREFUL, food coloring is not easy to get off, or at least I am not aware of the trick to get the stain off your fingers or clothing. 

 I placed each one into a countiner and had the kids sing the song as they swirled it slowly with their partner.  When they were all done we set it on our science table so they could observe the rest of the ice melt. 

This activity was very fun, for all of us. It was my first time doing this, and I believe it was fun, and engaging, in my opinion it was a SUCCESS! 

Sorting colorful socks. I went on clip art and typed socks and found a few pattern ones and made them different sizes as well. I then colored and laminated them. 

Are there any activities or variations you've done with these activities or this theme?

St. Patrick's- Exploring Rainbows

Language Arts
printing color names on the rainbow
Click HERE for template