Oh Hey, Oh Hi!Snowflake Stretch/Snowballs
I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! (Beaumont) 2-5
In this favorite crowd pleasing book with a surprise ending, Beaumont and Carrow take black and white line sketches to new colorful heights when a naughty young boy gets into some paints. Explore colors, body parts, and a bit of colorful craziness, set to music, if you please.
(I pass out dry paintbrushes so kids can join along in the fun.)
(Pass out wash cloths...)
Song: This is the Way We Take a Bath (tune: Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush)
Seven Blind Mice (Young) 3-5This is a book with what I like to think of as layers. It's simple text, colors, characters, and theme invite children to relate to it on many levels while it relates the wisedom that the whole is greater than the parts. A lovely book.
Finger Play: Here is a Little Mouse
Game: Blindfold Game
(Blindfold a child. Have him/her feel an object and try to guess what it is.)
Mouse Paint (Walsh) 2-5
A favorite of many, many children, Ellen Stoll Walsh's mice are adorable explorers. While up to their ankles in colorful puddles, these mice accidentally discover the secondary color family and help children explore color mixing. But will they manage to avoid the cat?
Finger Play: Balloons
Song: If You're Wearing Red (tune: If You're Happy and You Know It)
Felt Board: Balloons
Closer: Wave Goodbye
More Books (from Story Time Source Page)
Toddler Read Alouds Blue, Blue and Yellow, Too by Biruta Hansen
Blue Goose by Nancy Tafuri
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin
Carlo Likes Colors by Jessica Spanyol
Duckie’s Rainbow by Frances Barry
I Went Walking by Sue Williams
Go Away, Big Green Monster by Ed Emberley
Hello Kitty, Hello Color by Byron Glaser
Maisy’s Rainbow Dream by Lucy Cousins
Mary Wore Her Red Dress by Merle Peek
Meeow and the Big Box by Sabastian Brown
Moo Moo, Brown Cow by Jakki Wood
Small Bunny's Blue Blanket by Tatyana Feeney
Who Said Red? by Mary Serfozo
Preschool Read Alouds
And to Name But Just A Few: Red, Yellow Green and Blue by Laurie Rosenwald
Black Meets White by Justine Fontes
Butterfly Butterfly by Petr Horacek
City Colors by Zoran Milich
Deep Blue Sea by Audrey Wood
Dog's Colorful Day by Emma Dodd
Hooray for Fish by Lucy Cousins
I Know A Wee Piggy by Kim Norman - CROWD PLEASER
I Like Black and White by Barbara Hicks
I Spy With My Little Eye by Edward Gibbs
Kid Tea by Elizabeth Fiocelli
Patrick Paints A Picture by Saviour Pirota
Penny Loves Pink by Cori Derrfeld
Red is Best by Kathy Stinson
Sylvie by Jennifer Sattler
We'll All Go Sailing by Maggie Spicer
Where Is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox
WOW! Said the Owl by Tim Hopgood
School Age Read Alouds
Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan
Color of His Own by Leo Lionni
Courage of the Blue Boy by Robert Neubecker
Dog Blue by Polly Dunbar
Elmer by David McKee
Flyaway Katie by Polly Dunbar
I Spy With My Little Eye by Edward Gibbs
Lemons Are Not Red by Laura Seeger
Little Green Witch by Barbara McGrath
My Many-Colored Days by Dr. Seuss
Pinkalicious by Victoria Kann
Red Lemon by Bob Staake
