Color Wheels

Making color wheels all summer long in preschool

June 21, 2011

Summer time is a great time to explore color wheels. I like to use it at an opportunity to review basic colors… The children at preschool made their own color wheels last year. Each class worked together as a group throughout the summer to make their color wheels and each color wheel was a little [...]

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Getting babies and toddlers outside to play

April 17, 2011

This week Childhood 101 is celebrating “Get Outdoors and Play” and that is one thing my nieces and nephews love to do.  There are all kinds of fun things infants and toddlers can do outside… My little niece Clara is having a ball swinging in her backyard… If this doesn’t look like fun, then I [...]

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Natures color wheel in preschool

July 26, 2010

I saw a color wheel at one of our schools recently where the class glued colorful plastic flowers on each section of the color wheel. It got me thinking why not use real flowers? We went on a little nature walk to find flowers and put them in a bag. Wy wasn’t exactly sure why [...]

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Color Wheels

July 15, 2010

The children have been working on color wheels this summer. Each week they bring in items from home to give add to the color wheel. Each class took their own approach to this project. Here is the start of a couple… The color wheels bring in not only color but they bring in texture as [...]

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