Color crafts
reinforce the concept for children.
Color crafts help children use their creativity while learning their colors. These crafts are also a good review for kids who already know their colors. These color-themed crafts are ideal for preschool or primary classrooms. Young children can handle these craft projects with a little guidance from an adult. The resulting crafts make a colorful display in the home or classroom.
Rainbow Placemats
Rainbows are popular for teaching kids about colors. This craft turns the rainbow into a placemat. Start with a large arc, or half circle, cut from red construction paper. This creates the base for the rainbow. Continue making progressively smaller half circles with each of the other colors in the rainbow. The rainbow color order is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Have children layer the half circles to create the rainbow. A layer of lamination on the finished product protects the placemat from food and spills. You can also add the color names to each section of the rainbow.
Colored Rice Art
Uncooked rice can easily be colored using food coloring. Mix 1 tsp. of rubbing alcohol with a few drops of food coloring. Add uncooked rice and stir. You'll need to let the rice dry on a piece of wax paper or aluminum foil before using it. You can also tint uncooked pasta in the same manner. Once dry, the colored rice or pasta can be glued to paper to create pictures. Tinted pasta works well to make homemade necklaces, as well.
Color Wheel
A homemade color wheel teaches children about primary and secondary colors. Each child needs a cup of red, yellow and blue tempera paint. Begin by painting one circle for each color, creating the three corners of a triangle shape. Then, mix the colors together to create green, orange and purple. The new paint colors are used to make circles between the two colors that make it. For example, orange would go between the yellow and red circles.
Color Collages
Color collages encourage children to find magazine pictures of items in different colors. You can have them focus on one specific color or a rainbow of colors. Have them glue the items of the same color together in a collage. For example, for a red collage they might glue pictures of strawberries, raspberries, red roses and red balloons. For a rainbow effect, cut a large poster board into a rainbow shape, and then have the children glue the pictures in color bands to resemble a rainbow.
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