Colors

Helping Children Get the Most out of the COLORS book

The activities on the previous page will help your child expand his or her knowledge, skills, and self-confidence. Young children learn best when they use all their senses. They need to touch, explore, experiment. Most importantly, the experience should be fun!
Color Walk. As you walk, encourage your child to experience different plants or flowers by touching and smelling them and observing their colors. Point out the difference between variant shades of the same color. Collect materials to use in the “cave painting” activity.
Rainbow Collage. Have on hand colored construction paper, wrapping paper, or old magazine images that include all the rainbow colors. Draw the pencil lines on the sheet of paper if your child is still too young to do so.
As an alternate way to do this activity, have your child make each ribbon of color from his or her own handprints. You’ll need a bigger piece of paper and a dish big enough for a child’s hand to be placed in palm-down. Fill the dish with the first color paint. Have your child place his or her hand in
the paint and then “stamp” repeated handprints along the first pencil line. After your child is done with one color, wash his or her hand and the dish and refill the dish with the next color. Continue in this way until all the colors have been added to the rainbow.
Making Colors. If possible, provide your child with water-based paints such as temperas, as these will give much brighter, more saturated results than watercolors. Put the three primary colors in different containers and let him or her mix two colors together on paper. Ask your child to identify the new colors he or she has created.

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