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Bonus Activity
October’s Plans
Activity Plans
for
for Toddlers
Toddlers && Preschoolers
Preschoolers

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room Bonus Activity Plan: Color Week

Monday | Nature Color Scavenger Hunt:

Create and color each section of a grid with sidewalk nature
1 chalk on your sidewalk or driveway and then collect the
items from nature to place on the corresponding color
sidewalk
sidewalk chalk
of grid section.

Tuesday | Walking Water Experiment: clear jars

Fill two jars with different colored water, dip a strip
2
food coloring
of paper towel into each jar, place the other end of the paper towel
towels into a third, empty jar. Watch the water walk the water
towel and mix together as it drips into the empty jar.

Wednesday | Colored Water Transfer: bucket or tub

3 Have a water play day! Set out tubs of water with some
scoops to transfer water back and forth. Add color to
food coloring (optional)
scoops, spoons, etc.,
the water if you’d like. water

Thursday | Color Collage:

Set out paper of different colors. Write the name of
4
colored paper
the color at the top. Tear up scraps of the paper in the glue
same color hues. Then glue scraps onto corresponding paper scraps (colored)
papers.

Friday | Rainbow Toy Hunt:

5 Draw a large rainbow on butcher paper. Go on a hunt
to find toys in the matching colors to place on the corre-
butcher paper
markers
toys
sponding color of the rainbow!

Saturday | Color Sorting Sensory Bag: buttons in two colors

Create a sensory bag with hair gel in a baggy and two gallon-size plastic baggy

6 colors of buttons. Draw circles (in the same colors as

the buttons) on the outside of the baggy. Sort the but-
(two to double bag)
hair gel
markers in same colors
tons into their circles!

Sunday | Pom Pom Sort: clothespin

7 Sort pom poms by color or size in a muffin tin, or just

transfer them back and forth. Add tongs for some
egg carton or muffin tin
pom poms
tweezers
fun!

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room Bonus Activity: Color Week

Nature Color Create and color each section of a grid

Make a Walking
Scavenger Stick
Hunt 1 Go on a hunt to find the perfect walking
with sidewalk chalk on your sidewalk or
stick.
driveway.
Supplies:
nature
sidewalk Clip
Go onoff stray twigs
a nature huntand sprouts
to collect offitems
the of
sidewalk chalk 2 the main part of the stick to make
from nature to place on the correspond-
smooth
ing coloras
ofyou
gridcan.
section.
it as

Paint the walking sticks to your desire.

3 Let dry.for
Repeat Goeach
for asection
walking sticks!
walk with your
of the new
grid!

Tips:

Make a grid of the colors, When looking for a color, Bring in discussion about
or make circles to hop decide on the name for the different shades of
to and from as you place the color you’re looking colors you may find. You
down the items from for. This will help them may find several leaves
nature! Get crazy! identify the color with it’s that are green, but some
name, rather than just may be lighter in color
matching colors. than others.

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Walking
Make Water
a Walking Stick 1 Fill
Go ontwo
a jars
different
stick.
huntnearly
food
to findfull
theof
coloring to
water.walking
perfect
each.
Add

Experiment
Supplies:
Tear two long strips of a paper towel.
clear jars Clip off stray
Dip one twigs
end of eachand sprouts
in the filledoff ofand
jars
food coloring
paper towel
2 the main part of the stick to make
place the other end into a third, empty
smooth
jar. as you can.
it as

water

Watch thewalking
Paint the water walk uptothe
sticks paper
your tow-
desire.
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3 el
Letand
the
dry.drip
empty
walking
down
Go for
jar.
sticks!
and mix
a walk withtogether
your newin

Tips:

The absorbency of the Also, try folding a paper Try raising the filled jars
paper towel plays a big towel into thirds to see if above the empty jar to let
role in how fast the water that helps speed it up. gravity help.
walks. Experiment with
different kinds, as well as Stick to two primary
toilet paper. colors to mix so you can
see what color it makes.

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room Bonus Activity: Color Week

Colored
Make aWater
Walking
Transfer
Stick 1 Go on
Fill two
stick.
ing
a tubs
hunt with
to find the perfect
water.
to each if you’d like.
walking
Add food color-

Supplies:
bucket or tub
food coloring (optional) Clip off stray twigs and sprouts off of
scoops, spoons, etc.,
water
2 Set out a third, empty container to dump
the main part of the stick to make it as
the water into (and mix the colors).
smooth as you can.

Use
Paintscoops, spoons,
the walking measuring
sticks to yourcups, etc
desire.
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3 to
Lettransfer
(and
dry. Go the
back
walking
for water
a walkinto
again)!
sticks!
withthe empty
your newtub

Tips:

This is a great Smaller scoops means Take this outside if

opportunity to introduce more fine motor control possible. If it’s not
color mixing. Use only used as well as more time possible, set this up
two primary colors (red, to transfer the water! indoors with a tablecloth
blue or yellow) to mix (or shower curtain or
together. large towel) on the floor
to catch spills.

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room Bonus Activity: Color Week

Make a Walking
Color CollageStick 1 Go out
Set on a2 hunt to find the
or 3 different perfect
colors walking
of papers.
stick. the name of the color on the top.
Write

Supplies:
nature’s
colored paper
sticks
paint
glue Clip off stray twigs and sprouts off of
paper
paintbrushes
scraps (colored)
pruners or loppers
2 Tear up scraps of paper in each of the
the main part of the stick to make it as
same colors.
smooth as you can.

Paint the walking sticks to your desire.

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3 Glue the scraps on the corresponding
Let dry. Go for a walk with your new
colored papers to make a collage.
walking sticks!

Tips:

The scraps of papers do For older kids, make it a Kids can join in on
not have to be exactly lesson in mixing colors. tearing the paper into
the same color. They can Use secondary colors as scraps! Kids can really
have different shades of your main paper (green, get into that part.
the same color. purple, and orange) and Sometimes they don’t
glue primary colors that though, and that’s okay.
blend together to make
that color.

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room Bonus Activity: Color Week

Rainbow Toy Hunt 1 Draw the colored lines of a rainbow on a

large piece of paper.

Supplies:
butcher paper
markers
toys 2 Go on a hunt through the house to find
toys in every color of the rainbow.

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3 Place the toys on the lines to create a
large rainbow.

Tips:

Have some ideas for The hunt is much of the Be sure to leave space
toys of each color ready. fun, but you can also do between the colored lines
Do you have blocks this with torn up pieces to fit toys on it.
in several colors? Or of paper!
letters? What about cars
or even markers?

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room Bonus Activity: Color Week

Put hair gel in a Ziploc bag (you could

Color Sorting Sensory Bag 1 double bag it to seal it better). Insert two
colors of buttons into the sensory bag
and tape it to the table.
Supplies:
buttons in two colors
gallon-size plastic baggy (two to double bag) Using markers, draw big circles in the
hair gel
markers in same colors
2 corresponding colors of buttons and the
names of the colors as well.

Have kids push the buttons around in

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3 the baggy to fit into the correctly colored
circles.

Tips:

Younger kids? Ditch Older kids can be timed You can erase the
the circles to move the to see how fast it can permanent marker with
buttons into and just let be done, or have them a Magic Eraser and draw
them move them around. trace the circle with the new sections to sort the
Talk about the colors. buttons. buttons into.

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room Bonus Activity: Color Week

Set out an egg carton or muffin tin and

Pom
Make Pom Sort
a Walking Stick 1 Go on a hunt to find the perfect walking
pom poms of different colors and/or
stick.
sizes.
Supplies:
clothespin
egg carton or muffin tin Clip off stray twigs and sprouts off of
pom poms
tweezers
2 Sort and put the pom poms in the
the main part of the stick to make it as
muffin tin by either color or size.
smooth as you can.

Paint the walking sticks to your desire.

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3 Use scoops or tongs to transfer the pom
Let dry. Go for a walk with your new
poms back and forth.
walking sticks!

Tips:

Younger kids may not Older kids can count pom If your child can’t use
grasp the concept of poms after sorting to see tweezers, don’t push
color and size. At this which color or size has it! You can use it along
age, just move them the most (and least). side him to show how it
back and forth. Even works, but let him just
with their fingers it’s a pinch with his fingers.
pinching exercise!

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