Our Preschool Group: Color, Light, and Dark
We read Ant and Bee and the Rainbow. Each kid got a Wiki stick of each color of the rainbow. Each kid made a rainbow in front of them along with Ant and Bee while we read the book. After the book we stood up and sang the Rainbow Song
Rainbow Song
Up and Over and Down.
Up and Over and Down.
See the rainbow way up high, pretty colors in the sky.
Up and Over and down there’s a rainbow in the sky.
We looked at a prism and talked about how a prism breaks light. We counted the number of rainbows we found. After this, we made tissue paper light catchers!
Make Light Catchers
Materials
Construction Paper Frame (2 per light catcher) - we did circles
Elmers Glue - watered down so it can be spread with a paintbrush
Paint Brushes
Tissue Paper - ripped into small pieces
Laminate Sheets or Plastic Gallon Bags
How to Make Them
Tape one construction paper frame to the back side of the laminate sheet or plastic gallon bag.
Flip the laminate sheet or plastic bag over so that the circle is underneath it. This is the guide for where you need to glue to.
Paint glue onto the laminate sheet or plastic bag and stick tissue paper on top.
Continue painting more glue as you add more tissue paper. Make sure you don’t go too light on the glue.
Once you’ve filled every space in your frame let the glue dry.
When the glue is dry peel the glued tissue paper off of the laminate sheet or plastic bag. Peel the frame off the back side.
Attach the 2 frames to the light catcher like a sandwich with the light catcher in the middle. Use glue to adhere them.
We ate the rainbow for a snack and sorted our food into colors. We had apples, tomatoes, oranges, carrots, cheese, bananas, avocado, edamame beans, cucumber, blueberries, grapes, and raisins.
After our snack we went downstairs and talked about light, color, and shadows. We hid strips of colored paper around the room and each kid got a flashlight to go find a strip of each color in the rainbow. Afterward we talked about how colors look different in the dark and it’s hard to tell them apart.
Here are some other shadow activities that we didn’t get to:
Shadow Puppets - set up a light facing a wall and use your hands to make shadow puppets
Shadow Tag - played outside, try to step on each other’s shadows
Shadow Tracing - played outside, trace the shadows of things you find outside with chalk.
Be a Shadow - choose someone to be the leader and have everyone else pretend to be their shadows by copying everything they do
Build a fort with fairy lights
Shadow Matching Game - try to match the shape of objects to the actual object
Make prism keychains - use beads and a prism pendent to make a rainbow making keychain
More Related Books
The Shape of Me by Dr. Suess
Flashlight
Goodnight Moon
Many colored days
