Color of the Week: PurpleWelcome to purple week! This week we did more activities with the color purple than we have with any of the other colors. Mostly because I had more time to plan different things the weekend prior! Ha ha! English/Spanish Colors Book Each week we start off with the color book and identify the different items in the pages that are purple. Mystery Tube This week we continued to use the "mystery tube". I start with asking them what they thing is inside the tube. They shake it and feel how heavy it is then make their guesses. Water Sensory Play I added a bath dye tablet to make it purple, but it came out more magenta, some baby oil for a little bit of a different texture, and a bunch of different purple items. Although the toys look more blue than purple in the photo, I promise they are purple. "Ice Cream" Play No, we didn't play with real ice cream, it was actually shaving cream! On the kitchen table I gave each child a big dollop of shaving cream and topped it off with a mixture of purple Epsom salt (Dyed with grape jello mix) and purple glitter. I then gave the kids some small cups and different shaped, sized and colored straws to mix around in. Paper Squares Sensory Box This one was used for the smaller children while the older kids did paper chains. They scrambled them up and threw them all over the table. What else would the littles do? Paper Chain This is a great fine motor activity. Although this was a new activity for most of the children, they caught on quickly after a few tries. After getting the hang of it, the kids raced to see who could make the longest link while others made crowns. Pretty Purple Paper Crowns. Try saying that 10 times fast! What else did we do? Here are a few other easy and fun ways we focused on "purple" this week: -We identified purple everywhere. If something was purple, I said it out loud. "The cubbie purple." "The teddy bear is purple." "My shirt is purple". You can never have too much repetition! -We checked out these fantasic purple animals -We played with purple play doh - We wore the color purple -We listened to THIS purple color themed kindergarten song on Youtube
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