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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Red Day




As a way to teach Ben his colors, I have decided to spend a full day focusing on each one. I won't be able to do it every day (just a day here, a day there). My mom did this with me when I was little. And recently, I've seen them featured on various blogs. Here is our take:

 
First, we wear red clothes. 

Then, we read books with the color red like this one about the ladybug and of course Clifford the Big Red dog. I found these at our library. 
I also got videos with the color red: Elmo is red and so are firetrucks.


We ate red foods on a red plate. I got lucky having a red plate :)
Here we have strawberries, apples and tomatoes. He also got a red icee pop and red Jello. 

 
We'll do another Red Day and have beets, red peppers, spaghetti, etc. 

And finally, we did a craft. I want to do a ladybug out of a paper plate. But we had church stuff going on tonight, so we did a simple craft instead. 
I took red construction paper, wrote "Red" on it,  cut out pictures of things that were red and just red paper out of a magazine. Then, I let him glue stick it all on the red paper.
He had more fun with the glue stick, but oh well. 


Don't forget to hang the artwork on the frig :)



6 comments:

  1. I have those little ladybug story book too. It is our usual routine to read stories with my baby.

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  2. It's a really sweet book. My mom was a Girl Scout leader for many years. Her camp name was Ladybug. So anything with ladybugs reminds me of my mom.

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  3. A color day sounds like fun! Your little boy is so cute!

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  4. Awe, thank you. He is a little comic and very sweet. I'm hoping to do a Yellow Day soon.

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  5. What a great idea! I never thought about it when I had my grandson every day. That would've been fun.

    Now we're on to mixing colors. He'll be 3 Sept 1.

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  6. It would be a neat idea for grandparents! I thought about doing it for my son's daycare (he goes twice a week).

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