All the Colors

You can do all the colors in one day or spread this theme out for the week and do a color a day. If you do a color a day, you can do colored themed lunches. When I did this with my son and with the kids I used to nanny for it was always fun to do color themed lunches. Green eggs and ham; orange mac and cheese, carrots and oranges; red hot dogs, ketchup, strawberries; blueberry muffins or oatmeal, blueberries, yogurt; purple cream cheese (mixed berry), grapes, grape juice, mixed berry yogurt. If you're doing all the colors for a day, you can still discuss colors at lunch. Try to have multiple colors on their plate, Orange Mac and Cheese, strawberries, blueberries, green grapes, grape juice.Sometimes it took a bit of food coloring and being creative but it was always fun. As a snack you can sort foods that come in multiple colors, rainbow goldfish, skittles, m&ms. If doing a color day, you can let your little one dress themselves in the color of the day. Being in quarantine is the perfect time to let your little one dress a little funny, no one will see them anyways.

I love water beads and I know the ones I have are multi-colored. You can play in water beads and pick out the different colors. You could also get crafty and dye pasta or rice. I have pasta done, but my friend dyed it not me. Here is recipe to dye your own pasta. You can pick out and name colors. You can also add some different colored items to hide and find. Kids love to hide things, and work on saying “hide”.

Fingerpaint a rainbow. If you’re doing a color a day, do a fingerpainting each day with each color. Then hang it up together to make a rainbow at the end of the week. Fingerpainting can also be a sensory activity. If you worry about your little one eating it, color vanilla pudding. I used to do this with babies when I worked in daycare.

Green Eggs and Ham is always a good book for green day and goes with a fun lunch plan as well. Brown Bear, Brown is a great color book as well.

On Vooks, my go to book is Colors on the Farm by Kids Books all the time. There is also Nom Nom Colors published by Familius.

I am loving all the color books on Epic. A few of my favorites are Search & Find Colors, The Big Book of Colors and Diving for Colors in Hawaii: A Color Identification Book. All are like Board Books that I would use in therapy normally. The first two can also work identifying items.

Get outside and find colors. When you go for walk find a color, the blue house on the corner, yellow flowers, the red bike outside the house down the street. You can use your color of the day and go find things on your walk that are that color. Now if it’s raining like it is by me right now. Go on a Color Search in your own house. Send the kids out to go find something of that color or get a little basket and send them to find a few things of that color. If you’re doing it in teletherapy, give the parents a warning and hopefully they can have a few items in the room they’re doing therapy and go find and show you the items. It also makes it nice to get a little movement in. Now that I’m finally able to work and slowly building up my caseload for teletherapy, I will be doing this next week with my kiddos. I can’t wait.

Of course, naming colors is on our words lists. Identifying items in the books or around the house. While playing in the sensory bin "hide" items, you can also "dig" them out and "find" items in the sensory box or colored items around the town or house.