Sunday, January 8, 2012

Tot School - Orange Week (14 Months)


Originally I had planned on going through the colors in a more "normal" order.  Red, green, blue, and yellow being the first ones.  However, the more I worked on organizing our color themes, the more I realized how hard some of the colors were going to be.  We just don't have as many toys/tools in the other colors.  Therefore, I have decided to break up the blue and the green.  This past week our color was orange.

As usual, one of our Tot Trays was replaced with a bin of colored items.  The objects varied a bit from the last two weeks.  We still had ball pit balls, play food, and dado squares, porcupine balls, but I had to use some other objects too.  I painted some wooden crafting balls and spools orange, I took the wooden rings from our sorting stacker (similar to this one), and I included Megabloks, a toy car, and a balloon filled with flour.  This week's big hit was an orange beaded necklace.


I made another color book in both English and Spanish.  I laminated it and we colored it together with a dry erase marker.  You can find it on the downloads page.  I also frequently showed him our flashcards for orange (also on the downloads page).  Because he did so well looking at the orange cards, I sometimes showed him the red and green ones again, from our previous weeks.

We also colored with orange marker...

Used our orange Do-A-Dot Paint...

Colored and put stickers on orange paper...

Played with orange play dough...


Wrote with orange expo markers (capped for photo taking)...


And played our mitten matching game.  He has surprised me with how well he can do with the matching.  He matches at least one or two sets per "game."





I found this great set of gears for Xander at a garage sale last summer.  Honestly, I had kind of forgotten about them until now.  To go with the color theme, I set up a tray using only orange gears.  He seemed fascinated.  Unfortunately, he could take the gears off the boards, but not put them on properly. I frequently rearranged them for him.

One of the trays had a paper towel tube, two toilet paper tubes, and some plastic spools.  I showed him how to put a spool in the end of a tube to watch it go out.  He was really good at it if I held the tube, but struggled a bit more if he had to hold both.  He also experimented with putting some of the items from his orange bin down the tubes.

This was Xander's puzzle for the week.  As you can see, he tends to mix his tot tray materials.  He likes putting various objects in those stacking cups!



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1 comment:

  1. What a lot of different orange coloured activities. Will have to look at some of your ideas again when I start doing colours with my baby as orange is not a colour we have a lot of around here. The paper towel tube idea is so simple but great for improving coordination.

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