Our YELLOW Day

Monday is officially YELLOW day in our home. We have plans to teach our little one all about the color yellow with fun crafts, catchy songs, and hands on activities. I chose to do yellow first because it is the only color that my daughter kinda knows already- I figured I would start out easy and then we'd progress to more difficult colors!
Here are the scheduled activities and some ideas that I think are worth mentioning:
Wear Yellow! My husband and I are both planning on participating in these color days by wearing the colors!
Yellow collage- take a piece of yellow cardstock, collect yellow stickers, and cut out some basic yellow shapes for the collage. I was originally going to do this activity with my daughter but I am doing something similar with her color book so I might not do this one.
Work on color book- gluing pictures of yellow things into pages of a blank book. I just printed 10 pictures of yellow things such as a sun, baby chick, pencil, lemon, etc. I am going to have my little one help me glue/place these items on 2 pages of a 20 page book. There will be 2 pages dedicated to each color. If I am feeling particularly brave I will have her do some yellow painting on the pages and then glue the items on top of the dried paint.

Muffin Tin Monday- a yellow feast!- I am going to prepare dinner for the family in the good ole' tin tonight! Planning on corn, banana, macaroni and cheese (more orangey, but it will work!), and a yellow cake for dessert!

clockwise from the top: macaroni and cheese, banana, corn

We're Going on a Yellow Hunt- my little one and I are going to go on a walk in search of things that are YELLOW. I will place things around our living room- such as a yellow plastic egg, marker, crayon, block, and other small toys. We will collect them all in a basket and play again if she so chooses. So we tried that activity- must have been too many structured activities- she picked up two or three items and was ready to just play.
Bath Paints- In the tub we will paint with yellow, blue, and red paints as a review on those three colors. I will probably be doing this activity Thursday or Friday with my little one.
Color Squares- I will introduce red, yellow, and blue color squares to my little one today (paint cards from Home Depot). Every day that we are working on colors I will take out these cards, label them with her verbally, and have her try and point out the yellow, red, or blue ones. By the end of this week I am hoping for mastery on these three colors... but we will see!!! As of today, my little one thinks that all three colors are yellow!

Other fun ideas:

• get a yellow balloon from the grocery store
• sing "star" songs such as twinkle twinkle little star
• read the story 5 Little Ducks Went Out to Play
  
• drink lemonade or other yellow fruit juice
• make a necklace with yellow beads to wear
• crayon coloring with a yellow crayon
• teach your little one the sign for yellow
• make yellow place mats to use for the day
• have some yellow flowers as a centerpiece
• dye water yellow and freeze in ice cube trays
  
• eat yellow Popsicles
  
• make banana bread
• go to the dollar store and see what yellow things you can buy for cheap!
• go feed ducks (yellow beaks)
• sudsy color bottle (add soap, water, and food coloring to a clear plastic bottle and let your little one shake it all about!) THANKS KJ FOR THIS IDEA!!
  

I hope this list helps.... it is almost one o'clock in the morning- I am going to bed! Tomorrow night I will attach pictures to our YELLOW day- and if you have any ideas PLEASE let me know- I am always up for anything creative! I am officially exhausted from yellow day festivities- blue day on Tuesday will be a lot more relaxed!

Check out this link for more ideas!

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