My approach to discussing MLK day with my 3-5 year olds was to Focus on the book " The Crayon Box that Talked" by Shane DeRolf. The book is perfect for teaching the respect for one another, no matter what color. We also used this day to do a lesson on colors.
* After reading the book " The Crayon Box that Talked" we used the flannel board to retell the story. I cut all of the different crayons from flannel and used this poem.
Wouldn't it be terrible?
Wouldn't it be sad
If just one single color was the color that we had?
If everything was black? or red or blue or green?
If yellow, pink, white, or orange
was all that could be seen?
Can you just imagine how dull the world would be
If just one single color
was all we got to see?
The children took turns placing the crayon color mentioned in the poem onto the flannel board.
* For art we decorated people cut- outs. The children used a Q-tip to paint their person any color they wanted.
They also drew a picture on a paper called " I Have a Dream". I wrote down what their dream was next to their pictures. We hung those up in a quilt pattern ( our letter of the week was Qq).
* Each child was given a picture of a gumball machine, and I precut different colored gumballs using a craft punch. I told the kids to find the color red, and glue it on their gumball machine. We continued on each color.
Great for color regognition and fine motor skills.
* We also read I Like Colors, Brown Bear Brown Bear, A Sweet Smell of Roses, and Little Blue and Little Yellow.
* For science we had some fun with color mixing and predicting what colors would they make. We gave each child a dab of red + white= pink blue+yellow= green red+ blue= purple and yellow + red= orange. We first wrote down their prediction, and then gave them a q-tip to mix the colors.
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