Color Crafts and Activities for Preschoolers

Eat your Colors

Can't find the right colored foods? Add Food Coloring

Take your favorite foods and add a drop of food coloring to them. Are you in the mood for French toast? Make it green. How about pudding? Make it orange. You can even serve purple milk with your cookies.

No matter which color you're studying, you'll be able to teach the basics by eating it!

Karaoke with Colored Animals

Pre-schoolers have imaginations that won’t stop and that is the fun of teaching them.  Giving them the freedom to create their own animals is a fantastic way to nurture those imaginations, teach colors and help them remember each other’s names!

Teach your students the song “Mary had a Little Lamb”.  Remember, Mary’s little lamb had fleece as white as snow.  Now, after they know the song, provide each student with a small square of construction paper being sure there are numerous colors to go around.  Make sure they know what color their paper is.  Then have the children pick their favorite animal. 

Now, here comes the fun! In a karaoke setting, each student will sing their own song to the tune of Mary had a Little Lamb.  Have them replace the words as follows:

Mary = Their own name
Little Lamb = Their own animal
Fleece as White = skin or fur along with their color
As Snow =  As + an item that is the same color

This activity encourages them to use their imagination. Everyone will have a good laugh when they sing about a snake as purple as grapes or has a cat as green as grass!

Coloropoly

Everyone has enjoyed the great game of Monopoly. Now you can teach pre-schoolers colors by using the same great concept.

Keeping in mind the layout of the board, use the large side of a cardboard box and markers to make the game board.  Instead of using street names for the landing squares, use colors.  Randomly layout 10 different colors in various locations across the board.  Using three green squares instead of the New York, Tennessee and St. James squares.  Use two red squares instead of Baltic and Mediterranean Avenues.  Use four yellow squares in place of the railroads. 

Assign a price and a rent for each color.  This does not have to be in the form of cash unless you wish to use play money for the game.  Using items such as cereal or mini-marshmallows are fun, because the children get to eat their capital. Ok well maybe checkers would be better. Don’t forget to replace the Go to Jail square to a time out square!  Instead of getting a Get out of Time-Out Free card, they miss one turn. A start square will also be necessary. 

Make the game simpler for the younger learner by not using squares like Chance or Luxury Tax. Using only one die will make the counting simpler. Making it a timed game will keep the students from becoming uninterested. 

In Coloropoly the key to the game is to own a conglomerate of colors.  Students take turns rolling the die and moving around the board. When they land on a color, they may purchase it or if it is owned, they pay rent to the owner. The student with the most color conglomerates and capital at the end of the game is the winner.