Materials
Old compact disks
Decorative adhesive paper
Instructions
1. Beforehand, glue a different flower picture onto each paper plate.
2. Ask the children to close their eyes and ask, "What do you see?" They may
say, "Black" or "Nothing." Now say, "Open your eyes. What colors do you
see?" Talk about the colors around the room or out the window.
3. Give each child a paper plate with a flower on it. One at a time, each child
will hold it in front of her face and ask the other children what colors they see
on the plate.
4. Give one child at a time a mirror and ask her to look into it. Encourage the
other children to stand around her and describe the colors they see (for
example, blue eyes, red hair, brown freckles, brown skin, and so on).
Encourage them to look closely and see the different variations of colors such
as the eyes.
5. Explain that we all are different colors, and like the flowers, we are all
beautiful.
More to do
Art: Encourage the children to draw flowers, birds, butterflies, or animals using
different colors.
Housekeeping: Put dolls of different ethnicities as well as with different hair,
eyes, and so on in the Housekeeping Center.
Science: Show the children a collection of bugs or butterflies of different colors.
Related poem
Colors and Me
If you look around you will see
Flowers, trees, the sky, and me.
Browns, yellow, pinks, and greens
Colors everywhere it seems.
Dogs, cats, birds, and me too
Black, white, purple, and blue
Different colors we will see.
When I look at you and you look at me.
