homeschool rainbow fun

Every preschooler is beginning to learn and explore the world around them. And everyone of their mothers (and fathers) is rediscovering the simple pleasures of vibrant color and arts and craft. We also are madly in love with our computers, which provide a really nifty resource for all kinds of things. I like to get online and look at colors on google image search. Search red and get a page covered in different and beautiful images with that color playing a starring role. It's fabulous. You can do this with anything. Here I've compiled a couple activities and stolen photos from my online googling, and encourage you to do some googling yourself.

Rainbows are created when sunlight filters through water. You generally see them after a rain, or if it's raining and the sun is shining at the same time. A lot of people use the ROY G BIV method to remember the colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. If your child is too young for the letter, skip over it, or present it briefly. My child had no idea what I was talking about when I told it to her, lol.

Red is the color found in apples, cherries, roses, lipstick, and cardinals (for those kids that love animals). For a closer look at this color have an apple day, put on makeup with your kid (if you're okay with that sort of thing), watch the Little Mermaid and loor at her hair, and go outside and do some flower picking and birdwatching. Beets, hearts, some fish and star fish are also red, not to mention the red curtain on your puppet show display if you have one!

Orange is an easy one, because oranges are *gasp* orange! There are of course also blood oranges. Have fun with citrus for an orange day, and look even at different citrus colors. Flowers, cantelope, and some cats are even orange!

Yellow is the color of bananas, many wildflowers, and our great sun! The sun is one kind of a variety of stars. Might be a good way to get into astronomy a little for a preschooler that is interested and ready. Bananas are a favorite though in this house!

Green is easy! Trees, grass, leaves, bugs, snakes, limes, watermelons, beans, peas, parrots... all kinds of things are green. You might put a highlight to a little older kids how the green pigment helps plants make energy, and how that energy fuels the world!!

Blue is the color of the sky, the seas, birds, peacock... it's also a very major color. Why is the sky blue? Do you have blue eyes?

I dunno what kind of stuff is indigo, you'll have to research that one on your own (lol).

violets are violet! duh!

okay, enough of the colors, what are some crafts you can do?