Purple
Exploring the color purple
Month 7 · Activity 9 · Colors
Instructions
- Set up a purple table, tray or basket
- Let child collect items through the month that are purple and place on the table (purple items of clothing, eggplant, plums, grape jelly, purple markers or crayons, purple ribbon, etc.)
- Make a sign together with a child highlighting the word purple and place on the purple table, tray or basket
Simplify
Watch/listen to learn about the color purple
Extend
Make a "bunch" of purple grapes
Materials Needed:
White paper (construction, paint, or heavy paper)
Empty toilet paper roll
Plate (plastic/paper)
Purple paint
Green marker, paint, or crayon to draw stem
- Put paint in a thin layer on the plate
- Dip the end of the toilet paper roll into the paint and stamp onto the paper.
- Make a "bunch of grapes" using the toilet paper roll
- Draw a green stem at the top
Other purple ideas here
QUESTIONS FOR CHILD
What is your favorite purple food?
What is the craziest thing you have ever eaten?
Materials
- tray/small table/basket
- purple items
Problem Solving Skills
