This Rainbow Lesson Plan was so much fun to do! I loved all of the colors and more importantly my daughter loved it too! We were able to spend our day doing intentional play and having fun with learning about the wonderful colors around us!
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Language and Literacy
For this activity, we used the book “Nibbles Colors” and I created a Story Stick!
Evie and I read the book a couple different times. Any time a book as anything she can feel, we will end up reading it a couple different times. Spoiler Alert! Nibbles created quite a few holes, which created a wonderful texture that Evie loved to explore.
After reading the book, Evie and I used our story stick of Nibbles to go on a color search! Nibbles was looking for yummy snacks of different colors. Evie and I would take Nibbles around and look for ‘snacks’ of different colors! I love this activity because it allows Evie to intentionally look for colors around her!
Math
I love using stickers. I really LOVE these shape foam stickers. They have red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple shapes so they are PERFECT for our rainbow math lesson.
For this part of our rainbow lesson plan activity, Evie and I practiced our fine motor skills by pulling off the paper on the back of these foam stickers. She would place them anywhere and then move on the next sticker. A simple activity like this is full of opportunities to be intentional. For each sticker I would say “Oh Evie! You have a (color) (shape) sticker! Where are you going to put it?”. From time to time, I would ask her “Evie, I have a (color) (shape) sticker. Can you find another (color) (shape) sticker?”. These are ways to be intentional with this activity.
With these stickers, your child can categorize them by size, shape, and color!
Science and Sensory
Well. It was supposed to be sunny today. The forecast said it would be sunny ALL week. SO I had planned on creating a rainbow outside…The weather had a different idea. Instead, it rained and it was dark and gloomy.
That’s okay Mother Nature! I have a back up plan. Once upon a time, I wrote a block post about creating a rainbow WITHOUT sunshine! Evie loved doing this activity because she could play with the flashlight! She also loved slapping the walls when a rainbow would appear.
She wasn’t very interested in making her own rainbow but loved to see them when I made them!
Creative Arts
Remember when I said it was raining today? Well…we were going to do some chalk drawing today. Outside chalk drawing will have to wait.
Now. That doesn’t mean it is off the table. It means just the opposite. Chalk is ALL over the table. If you have a disposable or washable tablecloth, I recommend getting it out.
For this activity, I ground up some chalk into chalk powder and created a chalk finger play activity. Evie used her hands and fingers to ‘finger paint’ with chalk!
Music and Movement
Evie loves Mickey Mouse. Well one of our favorite Rainbow songs happens to be by Minnie Mouse. For our Music and Movement activity, I created a rainbow shaker from an old cardboard tube, paint, makers, glue, cotton balls, and rice.
Dancing is such a wonderful form of expression! You can be sure this was one of Evie’s favorite parts of this Rainbow Lesson Plan!
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