Colors & Rainbows Lesson Ideas For Preschool & Kindergarten
Goals
1. Know the order and names of the colors of the rainbow.
2. Beginning knowledge of how rainbows are formed.
This mini-lesson plan goes well with the Birds & Land Animals lesson and Noah’s Ark Bible story. For an introduction and to see how this post fits in the complete list of preschool lesson plans, please see my post: Preschool Lesson Ideas For Homeschool – Plans For The Year.
If you are so inclined and your child would enjoy it, consider compiling your child’s work and making a lapbook, book or portfolio at end of each month. You can also just keep it in a file folder! (We also occasionally mail fun worksheets to relatives who like to see what M is up to!)
Lesson Ideas
Pick and choose the resources below that fit best with your family. You may also find this link helpful for more activities: Rainbow Lesson Plan Ideas.
Arts & Crafts
- Colors Mini Books (Printable)
- Rainbow Coloring Page (Printable)
- Colored Rice Art Craft
- Upcycled Crayon Shapes (craft – recycle broken crayons)
- Pages from Preschool Color & Activity Book by Roger Priddy: Rainbow Colors, Color-Themed Pages
- Craft pages from Arts and Crafts with Amber Lamb and/or Child Art for 3s: Color-Themed*
Science
- Color Activity Book (Printable)
- Color Wheel (Printable)
- Color Mixing Poster (Printable)
- Make Playdough and experiment with mixing colors (Printable Recipe & Tags)
- Rainbow Potion from Kid Concoctions by Robynne Eagan OR Rainbow In A Jar
- How to Explain to Preschoolers How a Rainbow Is Formed
Reading & History
- Bible: Noah’s Ark (Jesus Calling Bible Storybook: p 30 – 35)
- Bible: Noah’s Ark (Egermeier’s Bible Story Book: p 16 – 18)***
- Chasing Rainbows (Dr. Seuss/Cat in the Hat)
- The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle
- My Very First Book of Colors by Eric Carle
- Jesus Is Coming Back! by Debby Anderson
* A Beka updates these books occasionally so I am not including page numbers or specific descriptions.
*** Egermeier’s Bible Story Book is wonderful for children who can listen to a story while they color, and don’t need a lot of pictures in the book to keep them interested.
Thank you for visiting Cotton Ridge Homeschool! I hope these plans help you with your preschool year. Please feel free to comment below with your own ideas!
Text Copyright 2013 Kathryn Depew
Image from Flickr.com used under the Creative Commons license: Rainbow by UrbanWanderer
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