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 :)
I have those little ladybug story book too. It is our usual routine to read stories with my baby.
ReplyDeleteIt'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.
ReplyDeleteA color day sounds like fun! Your little boy is so cute!
ReplyDeleteAwe, thank you. He is a little comic and very sweet. I'm hoping to do a Yellow Day soon.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea! I never thought about it when I had my grandson every day. That would've been fun.
ReplyDeleteNow we're on to mixing colors. He'll be 3 Sept 1.
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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