Family Storytime: Colors

For this week's storytime, we read about colors. This is always a great go-to theme because there are an unlimited amount of picture books to choose from on colors, as well as everyone's favorite classics. 

I had a smaller group probably due to spring break, but we still had fun having storytime together and one of my shy kids was able to be brave enough to participate a little more since the group wasn't so big. A win-win. 

After a much needed bean bag song dance to get our wiggles out, we read our first color story, Baby Bear Sees Blue by Ashley Wolff. I've read this picture book before for storytimes and it's great for the color theme. Bear notices all the different colors in nature while enjoying the company of his mom. The group liked announcing each color together while the story was being read.

I had handed out different colored felt band-aids and had a cute rhyme to go with the colors so when they heard their color in the rhyme, they could bring up their band-aid. They always love bringing up their piece to the flannel board.

Our next story was the classic, Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh. In this story, we see what happens when some curious mice mix paint colors together and what colors they end up making. 

I jumped right into reading our next story, Yellow Is My Color Star by Judy Horacek. What is your favorite color? In this rhyming story, a young girl loves yellow. We talked about what our favorite colors were with most of us having blue as our color star. 

 Our next activity involved the flannel board, but we also had some movement exercises to do too. We followed along to a rhyme that told us what to do if we were wearing a certain color while I put up the colored square on the flannel board. A lot of us were wearing white somewhere on our body and had to stamp in place. 

The last story of the day was Little Green Peas by Keith Baker. Such a cute story where the kids always love repeating "little green peas." 

For our craft, I drew two lines on construction paper to make four squares on the page. I wrote colors and the group had to glue foam shapes, beads, and sequins of that color in the square. This was a great way to make use of odds and ends collected through other crafts while the kids practiced their color sorting. 
 
Have a colorful day!