Colors & Shapes Story Time: August 19-20, 2019

Books:
Butterfly, Butterly: A Book of Colors by Peter Horacek *
A Circle in the Sky by Zachary Wilson *
Mix It Up! by Herve Tullet *
Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh
Shape Shift by Joyce Hesselberth

Craft: Butterfly Matching Sheet
The kids match shape cutouts to the shapes on a butterfly coloring sheet.



Extension Activities:
- Play a game of I Spy mixing it up between looking for colored and shaped objects.
- Practice color mixing with dyed ice cubes.  Make colored ice cubes using food coloring.  Ask your child to guess what colors they will get by mixing the different melted cubes.


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Art: Shapes & Colors Story Time: August 28-29, 2017

Books:
Bear Sees Colors by Karma Wilson
I Dream of an Elephant by Ami Rubinger *
Mix It Up! by Herve Tullet *
Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh
Shape by Shape by Suse MacDonald *
White Rabbit's Color Book by Alan Baker

Craft: Color by Shapes
The children were given a coloring page of ladybugs with different shaped spots on their backs.  The page was colored by matching the shape colors to the key.

Literacy Extensions:
- Play I Spy using colors with your child.  This will help with color recognition.
- Have your child make a shapes collage.  Give them several cut out shapes and have them make a picture out of the shapes.


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Colors Story Time: August 10-11, 2015

Books:
Baby Shoes by Dashka Slater
Dog's Colorful Day by Emma Dodd
Mix It Up! by Herve Tullet *
Monsters Love Colors by Mike Austin *
Warthogs Paint: A Messy Color Book by Pamela Duncan Edwards *
White Rabbit's Color Book by Alan Baker

Craft: Jester's Hat
Our craft was based on the picture above.  We used two" strips of yellow paper for the headband of the hat.  Then triangles of red, blue, orange, green and purple were glued to the handband.  Small red, blue, orange, green and purple dots were then glued to the ends of the triangles.

Literacy Extensions:
- Play I Spy spotting colors.
- Mix up some paint colors for an art project.

Favorite Books of 2014: December 1-2, 2014

Books:
The Book with No Pictures by B.J. Novak *
Hickory Dickory Dog by Alison Murray
Mix It Up! by Herve Tullet *
Oh So Brave Dragon by David Kirk *
Three Little Peas by Marine Rivoal

Craft: Color Wheel Coloring Sheet
We practiced mixing our colors this week by completing the coloring sheet at left.  The circles are labeled which color to use.  Kids had to figure out what color to use where the circles overlap.

Literacy Extensions:
- Play with color mixing.  Use watercolor paints to mix colors and explore how they change when mixed. (i.e. Mix It Up!)
- Read some nursery rhymes.  See if you and your child can come up with variations on them similar to the book Hickory Dickory Dog.

Notes:
We started out our series of favorite picture books from 2014 with my two favorite books -- The Book with No Pictures and Mix It Up!.
I have been amazed at the great reaction we get from The Book with No Pictures.  The kids giggle through the entire book.
Mix It Up! got a little more of a mixed reaction.  All of the children loved the "magic" of how the book changes based on the directions you follow.  However, the  younger children did not get the color mixing.
The same problem came up with the craft activity.  I went with just the simple coloring sheet as we had Play Time after the Story Times this week.  The kids usually  just want to get through the activity to get to the toys.  However, again the younger children didn't grasp the color mixing concept that the coloring sheet asked for.