Effective Preschool Theme Activities
Color Activity

Preschool Color Activity:

The preschool color activity will be a fun activity, teaching the children their primary colors.

All colors can be found in nature. The children will learn to observe and stimulate their fine motor sensesin this creative color activity.

The preschool children will practice sequencing the pasta during the activity.

The children will develop their auditory skillswhen listening to the poem, following the color activity.

Materials:

1. dino-mite-color-and-activity-book
2. Pictures depicting Primary Colors in Nature.
3. Paint in Primary Colors.
4. Pasta, suitable to be stringed.
5. String.
6. Poem on Color. "Yellow."

Procedure:

• The teacher should show the children pictures where primary colors are being depicted in nature.
• The teacher should encourage them to name the objects they see in nature that depict a primary color.
• The teacher should indicate that the primary colors are: red, blue, and yellow, as seen in nature, and cannot be created by mixing different colors together.
• The teacher should indicate that the primary colors cannot be mixed but they do have different shades and tones.
• The shades are created when black colorant is added to the primary color. White colorant will change the tint of the primary colors.



• The teacher should teach the children when adding a little black paint or coloring to the primary colors the colors will intensify, and if white colorant is added to the primary colors the color will have a lighter tint than the original color.
• The teacher is advised to demonstrate the mixing of colors with dry powder paint for the children to watch!
• The children should be part of the discussion, for instance, what will happen when more white powder is added?
• The children could sequence the pasta, when stringing the pasta, according to pasta shapes, or according to a color pattern.
• The children will enjoy listening to the reading of the poem.

Poem: Yellow:
My face is yellow,

My hair is yellow,

My shirt's all yellow,

And oily too;

A stringy mango

Has made me yellow,

As stringy mangoes

Always do. I pulled off the peel

With my teeth and fingers,

I licked the yellow

From inside the peel,

And it feels all slimy

And oily and greasy,

As stringy mangoes

Always feel.

It slips to the ground

Through my slippery fingers,

It's muddy now,

But I love it still,

For it feels so oily

And greasy and lovely,

As stringy mangoes

Always will.

Juliet Marais Louw.

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