Books we read:
Brown at the Zoo by Christianne C. Jones
Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox
The Deep Blue Sea by Audrey Wood
The Big Red Farm by Christianne C. Jones
Animals in Color/Animales en Color by Sebastiano Ranchetti
After reading the first book, we did an activity in which we made a rainbow using the poem at the end of this post (pictures and explanaition are also at the end of the post). After reading the other books, we used the book Animals in Color/Animales en Color to learn how to say different colors and the names of different animals in Spanish.
The craft we made was a rainbow made with torn paper!
Materials needed: Strips of colored paper (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple), glue, and a paaper with arches on it. I used this template: click here or you can draw the arches.
Have the children tear the different colors into smaller pieces and paste in the arches. I also had crayons out so that the younger children could color their rainbows instead.
Making a Rainbow Activity!
Materials: Rainbow arches, colored and cut. Images of fruit, colored (red cherries, orange orange, yellow lemon, green limes, blue blueberries, purple grapes), and a pot. You can either put magnets on the back or just use tape to tape them up on a board.
I gave each child either a piece of the rainbow or one of the fruit. You can either sing the following song, or read each paragraph and have the child with the coordinating fruit or piece of the rainbow bring it up and tape it to the board. We also made stirring motions when the song says to stir.
Making a Rainbow
(Tune: Skip to My Lou")
Take some cherries; put them in a pot
Stir them, stir them, stir them a lot!
Pour it out now; what will it be?
The prettiest red you ever did see!
Take an orange; put it in a pot Stir it, stir it, stir it a lot!
Pour it out now; what will it be?
The prettiest orange you ever did see!
Take a lemon; put it in a pot
Stir it, stir it, stir it a lot!
Pour it out now; what will it be?
The prettiest yellow you ever did see!
Take some limes; put them in a pot
Stir them, stir them, stir them a lot!
Pour it out now; what will it be?
The prettiest green you ever did see!
Take some berries; put them in a pot
Stir them, stir them, stir them a lot!
Pour it out now; what will it be?
The prettiest blue you ever did see!
Take some grapes; put them in a pot
Stir them, stir them, stir them a lot!
Pour it out now; what will it be?
The prettiest purple you ever did see!
Red and orange, yellow and green
Blue and purple colors are seen!
Put them together; what will it be?
The prettiest rainbow you ever did see!
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