Summer brings a bounty of healthy fruit. For the next four weeks, we’ll use fruit to help children remember colors.
Multi-sensory learning helps children with comprehension of facts. A simple music game helps the children touch, see, and hear the names of colors.
Tape large squares of solid colored paper to the board. As you name each color, ask the children if they can think of fruit that is the same color. Draw a picture of each fruit the children name. Limit your colors to blue, red, yellow, green, orange, and purple.
Now tape the squares to the floor. Add extra squares so each child is standing on a square. Play upbeat music. As you call out directions, the children move from square to square. When the music stops, each child calls out the color of his/her square and the name of a fruit. For example, “I’m on a yellow square. Bananas are yellow.â€
Check out the free lesson plan for other ways to play Musical Colors.