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Learning Activities for the Color Red

November 12, 2011 by Mama Carmody 19 Comments

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Learning Activities for the Color Red





Here are some learning activities for the color red. Remember to have fun learning and laughing together.

Clothing

Dress you child in something red; a red shirt, red pants, etc. Join in the fun and wear red too.

Toys

Go through your child’s toys and pick out the red ones to play with; red legos or duplos, red wooden blocks, a fire engine, Strawberry Shortcake, Elmo etc. Use these toys for playtime today.

Make or buy red play dough. Play dough is great for sensory play. If you have plastic colored cookie cutters to use with your play dough, just get out the red ones today. Click the words, play dough, to find a couple of recipes to make your own play dough at home.

Craft

Torn Paper Apple Craft

Learning Activities for the Color Red: Materials Needed for Torn Paper Apple Craft
Learning Activities for the Color Red: Materials Needed for Torn Paper Apple Craft

Materials Needed:

1. Red & green construction paper
2. Small white paper plate
3. Glue
4. Foam applicator or paint brush
5. Scissors

Instructions:

1. Give your child a small white paper plate and a red piece of construction paper.
2. Have him/her tear the red construction paper into pieces. (I just used 1/2 piece of construction paper.)

Learning Activities for the Color Red: Torn Paper Apple Craft
Learning Activities for the Color Red: Torn Paper Apple Craft

3. Squirt some glue onto the small paper plate.
4. Give your child a paint brush or foam applicator to apply the glue to the plate with. (My favorite is the foam applicator. It covers large surfaces quite a bit easier than a paint brush.) Have your child spread the glue all over the plate. Make sure to get the edges.

Learning Activities for the Color Red: Torn Paper Apple Craft
Learning Activities for the Color Red: Torn Paper Apple Craft

5. Then apply the torn pieces of red construction paper one piece at a time. Cover up all the white.

Learning Activities for the Color Red: Torn Paper Apple Craft
Learning Activities for the Color Red: Torn Paper Apple Craft

6. Have a stem and a leaf cut out and ready so your child can glue them to the top of the apple. If your child is a little older let them cut out their own stem and leaf.
7. Some of the red construction paper was sticking over the edge of the plate so I trimmed that off to give the apple it’s circular shape back.

Learning Activities for the Color Red: Completed Torn Paper Apple Craft
Learning Activities for the Color Red: Completed Torn Paper Apple Craft

Red Foods for snack or meal time

Strawberries, cherries, watermelon, raspberries, red pepper, apples

Finger Play

Ten Red Apples

Ten red apples growing on a tree
(hold both hands up and out to make a tree)
Five for you and five for me
(shake one hand, then the other)
Help me shake that tree just so
(act like holding tree trunk and shaking it)
And ten red apples fall down below
(lower hands while fluttering fingers)
One, two, three, four, five
(count fingers on one hand)
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
(count fingers on other hand)

– Author Unknown

Story Time

“Apples Here!“ by Will Hubbell
Reading Level: Ages 3-8
I would encourage you to read this to your child before you do the Torn Paper Apple craft. It gives a very simplified story of how apple trees and apples grow. The simple theme is that “there are apples here”; whether looking at buds or blossoms or tiny little knots on the branches, there are apples growing there.

“Clifford The Big Red Dog” by Norman Bridwell
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Several generations of children have fallen in love with Clifford the Big Red Dog. Norman Bridwell has written many different adventures for Clifford and Emily. I’m sure that you will find plenty of adventures that you and your child will love.

“The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear (Child’s Play Library)” by Audrey Wood and Don Wood
Reading Level: Ages 5-8
The Little Mouse wants to save his strawberry from the Big Hungry Bear. Do you like strawberries? Maybe you can help the Little Mouse. Read this cute story for some smiles and expect to have a craving for strawberries.

Music and Singing

Little Red Caboose

Bumping Up And Down In My Little Red Wagon

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Comments

  1. Adrienne says

    August 25, 2015 at 8:43 am

    What an awesome idea! My son would love to do this, and it’s a fun and educational way to keep him busy when he gets bored.

    Reply
    • Mama Carmody says

      August 31, 2015 at 1:50 pm

      I did this with my great-nephew a couple of years ago (they little guy in the picture). Now I have my 2 year old grandson here. I think it’s time to do the craft again.

      Reply
  2. Jacquelyn Ward says

    August 24, 2015 at 11:34 pm

    These are all wonderful activities to learn the color Red. These are very similar hands-on approaches that I have used with my daughter. I think it is important to make learning fun and as hands-on as possible for the children. Great ideas! I love that apple craft!

    Jacquelyn

    Reply
    • Mama Carmody says

      August 31, 2015 at 1:51 pm

      I believe that learning should be fun. I love it when kids are having fun and learning at the same time. Most of the time they don’t even realize they are learning.

      Reply
  3. Crystal says

    August 24, 2015 at 2:29 pm

    Big hungry Bear is my favorite kids book of all time. My oldest had it memorized word for word when he was 3!

    Reply
    • Mama Carmody says

      August 31, 2015 at 1:51 pm

      I have read that one to my preschool classes. It is a fun book.

      Reply
  4. Mary says

    August 24, 2015 at 2:09 pm

    These are all wonderful learning activities for the color Red. I will be pinning this for when I have little ones in my home!

    Reply
    • Mama Carmody says

      August 31, 2015 at 1:52 pm

      Thanks so much for pinning. I appreciate the support.

      Reply
  5. Leslie says

    August 24, 2015 at 2:03 pm

    Great ideas and you have the cutest subject ever for your photos.

    Reply
    • Mama Carmody says

      August 31, 2015 at 1:52 pm

      That’s my great-nephew. He loves to come over and help me out. We have a lot of fun together.

      Reply
  6. Jen says

    August 24, 2015 at 1:50 pm

    Great ideas! I am going to try some of these with my kids.

    Reply
    • Mama Carmody says

      August 31, 2015 at 1:53 pm

      So glad to hear it. Please stop back by and let me know what you tried and how it went.

      Reply

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