Materials
- Popsicle sticks
- Crepe paper (red, yellow, orange, pink, purple, green, and blue)
- Tape or glue
What to do
1. Attach a different color of crepe paper to each Popsicle stick using tape or glue.
2. Give each child a Popsicle stick and crepe paper.
3. Teach the children the words to the rainbow poem:
Red and yellow and orange and pink
Purple and green and blue,
I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, with my friends like you.
4. The children will wave their colors each time it is mentioned in the poem.
-Lisa M. Chichester, Parkersburg, PA
Instructions
1. Attach the stickers to five of the sides on both blocks, leaving one side of each
block blank.
2. Play a vocabulary game with the children using the blocks. Ask a child to toss
both of the blocks and name the stickers that land face up, using the term
"and." For example, the child will say, "Ghost and jack-o-lantern."
3. This game is a fun activity that promotes vocabulary development. It also
introduces the children to the concept of "nothing," which occurs when a
block lands blank side up.
More to do
Ask the children to make up a sentence describing the pictures on the blocks. For
example, "My angel is blue and the wreath is shiny." Add a third or fourth block
to the game.
