Preschoolers will listen to a story entitled ‘Mouse Paint’, perform an experience that will help them find out how secondary colors can be created from primary colors and consolidate this knowledge by decoding secondary colors from primary colors. They will take part in the movement activities with colors and start to learn a song entitled ‘The Rainbow Colors’.

Materials:

a story entitled “Mouse Paint”, music for marching/running/jumping, transparent containers with water, brushes, poster paints, a song entitled “Mix the Colors”, worksheet “Colorful coding”, poster paints: red, blue, yellow, brushes, a song entitled “The Rainbow Colors”, picture cards for the song.

Activity description:

1. “Hello to those who …” – greeting – children and their teacher sit in a circle. Teacher pronounces the sentences, and children who are wearing something in this color, get up, go around the circle and return to their place. Teacher comes up with new sentences until all children are greeted.

• Hello to those who are wearing something blue,
• Hello to those who are wearing something red,
• Hello to those who are wearing something green,
• Hello to those who are wearing something white,
• Hello to those who are wearing something yellow.

2. “Mouse Paint” – listening to a story written by Ellen Stoll Walsh – children sit comfortably in a circle and listen to the story entitled “Mouse Paint”. Teacher shows the picture while listening to the story.

Next, teacher asks preschoolers:

• How many mice were in the story?
• What color were they?
• Where did they climb?
• What happened next?
• What color did red mouse feet make in a yellow puddle?
• What color did yellow mouse feet make in a blue puddle?
• What color did blue mouse feet make in a red puddle?
• * Where did mice wash?
• What did mice paint?
• Why did they leave some white part on the paper?
• Do you think it’s fun to mix colors?

3. “Touch the color …” – movement activity – children march, jump or run around the room to the rhythm of any music. During a break in the music, teacher gives the name of a color that the children have to find in the room and touch. Repeat the game by saying as many colors as possible in the room.

4. “We mix colors” – didactic activity – teacher places transparent containers with water and 3 poster paints (yellow, red, blue) on the carpet. Then, teacher asks the next children to pick up some paint for the brush, dissolve it in water and observe what colors are created from the existing ones.

5. “Colorful interweaving” – movement activity – teacher gives away children’s sashes in three colors. Children move around the room to the rhythm of the song entitled “Mix the Colors”. When the music stops, teacher gives an order: position ourselves around the circumference of the circle, e.g. yellow, blue, red. A child with a yellow sash stands next to a child with a blue sash, and this in turn stands next to a child with a red sash. Children create a “jumble” of colors. Then, teacher checks the correctness of the completed task. Repeat the game several times by changing the order of the colors of the sashes.

6. “Colorful coding” – worksheet – teacher explains how to complete the task (children should not pick up a lot of paint on the brush – a little bit is enough). Next, teacher asks children to go to the tables and gives away the worksheets. During the task, teacher walks between desks, helps children if they need it and checks the worksheets.

7. “Coded gymnastics” – movement activity – children march, jump or run around the room to the rhythm of any music. During a break in the music, teacher holds up one of the colored cards (orange, purple, green) and children make the following movements:

• green – straight jump
• purple – clap over head
• orange – star jump

8. “The Rainbow Colors” – listening to the song – children sit in the circle and listen to the song. Teacher shows the picture cards while listening to the song. When the song is over, teacher talks with preschoolers about the lyrics of this song.

The Rainbow Colors

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink,
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink.
It’s a rainbow, it’s a rainbow,
a beautiful rainbow in the sky.
It’s a rainbow, it’s a rainbow,
a beautiful rainbow in the sky.

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink.

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink,
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink.
It’s a rainbow, it’s a rainbow,
a beautiful rainbow in the sky.
It’s a rainbow, it’s a rainbow,
a beautiful rainbow in the sky,
a beautiful rainbow in the sky,
a beautiful rainbow in the sky.

9. “What color do you see?” – didactic activity – teacher shows children the picture cards in random order, asking: “What color do you see?”. Children answer the question.

* You can ask parents picking up their child from the kindergarten to dress their child in blue tomorrow – or at least to have any blue accent.

Attachments:

Picture for a story entitled “Mouse Paint”

Worksheets entitled “Colorful coding”

Picture cards for a song entitled “The Rainbow Colors”

Pages used:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjohJiyvA0Q&ab – a story entitled “Mouse Paint”
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJI1AbsDOpQ&ab – music for the “Touch the color” activity
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwfZvRuE7s8&ab – a song entitled “Mix the Colors” for the “Colorful interweaving” activity
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRNy2i75tCc – a song entitled „The Rainbow Colors”