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Food:

Fun and food often go hand in hand, this can be especially true when teaching colours. Foods that you
could use on your “Green Day” are:

Green Kool Aid
Green Jelly (Jello)
Green taffy
Green lollipops
Green apples or green-apple flavoured candy
cucumbers (skins on)
lettuce
fried green tomatoes
ranch (or other) dressing (tinted green with food colouring)
kiwi
broccoli
asparagus
celery
string beans
peas
lime sherbet
avocado
spinach
green peppers
egg salad sandwich filling (tinted green with food colouring)
popcorn (tint melted butter with green food colouring before drizzling - then let the kids mix well)
parsley
limes
honeydew melon
pickles
green relish


Some children (and adults) are extra sensitive to certain food dyes. If this is the case with any of your
children, or you just want to stay on the safe side, stick with the natural sources of the colour yellow.

Make homemade fruit roll-ups using green fruit or fruit puree dyed green.

Make a green homemade fruit sherbet. You could add food colouring to make the sherbet colour more
vibrant if you wish.


Arts and Crafts:

Green Collage: Glue a green thing collage on green paper. Invite children to bring green things from
home to glue on to a green collage. You'll need to have some things available too like, green fabric
scraps, green yarn, green buttons, green paper, green tissue paper, green cotton balls, green milk jug caps,
green confetti, green paint chip samples from the hardware store, etc.

Green Play Dough

Shaving Cream Finger Paint:
1 medium Zip-loc bag
white shaving cream
Food colouring
Place a palm size dollop of shaving cream into the Zip-loc bag; add a few drops of blue and yellow food
colouring. Zip up the bag, removing all the air you can before sealing. The kids can "knead" the bag to
mix the colours - yellow and blue make Green!

Thumb Print Grapes: Draw or copy a bunch of grapes (stems only - minus the grapes!) on a piece of finger-
paint paper. Supply the kids with light green finger-paint and let them use their thumbs to fill the page with
"green grapes"!

Wear Green Day: Wear as much green as possible, and get some theatrical makeup and paint everyone's
face green.

Take a green walk and look for green objects. They could even take a small tablet and green crayon and
make a note/picture of each GREEN object they find.

Art: Put green paint (or finger-paints) in a painting centre or easel. Or provide crayons, markers, chalk,
pencils, etc. in the colour of the day so they can create interesting, monochromatic (single colour) pictures.

Make green Eggshell Chalk

Make green soap crayons

Make green, environmentally friendly sidewalk paint

Make green scratch-n-sniff watercolours

Turn any picture or cut-out into a homemade sticker

Make inexpensive, green oily soap paint

Sand pictures: first, allow the child to use Elmer’s glue (or some other similar craft glue) to “paint” a picture
onto a piece of paper. Then shake some coloured sand over the picture. Gently shake the excess sand
back into a storage container and allow the picture to dry. You could to the same thing with green glitter if
you chose.

Bubble pictures: Pour about ¼ cup of dishwashing liquid into a container such as a clean, empty cottage
cheese container. Add small amounts of water and tempera paint until the colour is intense. Place a
drinking straw into the pain mixture and blow carefully until the bubbles start to overflow. Gently place a
piece of paper over the bubbles, then lift carefully. The broken bubbles leave a pretty design on the paper.

Green balloons: Thin out Elmer’s glue (or similar craft glue) with water. Blow up a balloon. Dip coloured
yarn into the glue mixture and then wrap it around the balloon until the balloon is covered. Let it dry. Pop
the balloon and carefully remove from you creation. You can hang this yarn balloon from the ceiling like a
Chinese lantern.

Green Necklaces: Make necklaces out of dyed wagon wheel pasta (green food colouring and rubbing
alcohol mixed with the pasta - mix in large Ziploc bag and allow to dry on a garbage bag overnight). The
children use tipped yarn and thread on the yellow wagon wheels (they are a perfect size for the yarn).

Fruit Prints: Cut a lime in half. Squeeze out the juice. Dip the lime into green tempera paint and make a
print on white paper. Use the prints as gift wrap or greeting cards.

Colour Cubes: After filling the ice cube tray with water, add drops of red, yellow and blue the
compartments. After they are frozen, place a red cube and two yellow cubes in a glass. As the cubes melt
watch what happens! Do the same for yellow and blue and red and blue. It is fun to watch the ice melt and
change into another colour.

COLOURED CRYSTALS: For each child mix 1 tablespoon Epson salts and 1 tablespoon water in a baby
food jar or a clear plastic glass. Then stir in 1/4 teaspoon of the desired food colouring. Have the children
observe over the next few days as the water evaporates and small crystals begin to form. Keep a magnifying
glass handy for closer examination. Hint: For the best results do not use yellow.

GLITTER SPARKLE BOTTLES: Remove the label from a clean, clear 16 oz. plastic soda bottle. Pour at
least 1/2 cup of light corn syrup into the bottle. Then add a few drops of food colouring and some glitter
and/or confetti. Hot glue the lid onto the bottle. Have the children swirl and shake the bottle and watch it's
movement. Use a certain colour-or a rainbow of colours!



Other Activities & Songs:

Play active games with a green balloon or green ball.

COLOUR HOP (tune of Old McDonald)
I see something that is_____[colour].
Do you see it too?
I see something that is [same colour].
HOP there if you do.
With a hop, hop here,
And a hop, hop there. Hurry up! Hop it up!
Hop as fast as you dare.
I see something that is [colour].
Do you see it too?


COLOUR SONG (Tune: If you're Happy and You Know It)
If there's white on your shoes stand up quick,
If there's white on your shoes stand up quick.
If there's white on your shoes,
If there's white on your shoes,
If there's white on your shoes stand up quick!


Of course you can change the article of clothing and the action you do to extend the song or to include
others that have white somewhere else.)

Colour Game
Give each child a man shaped in one of the following colours red, blue, green, or yellow. Have the
children listen for their colour and move the man accordingly.
Red, green, blue, and yellow:
These are the colour fellows.
Hold yours up when you hear it's name.
It's time to play the colour game.
Red, Red, move so high.
Reach and try to touch the sky.
Green, Green, move round and round.
Circle up and down.
Blue, Blue, move left and right.
Move until you're out of sight.
Yellow, Yellow, move front and back.
Keep on moving. Stay on track.
Our colour game is almost done.
Let's play again: oh what fun!


I saw Something that is Green (tune: Old MacDonald.)
I saw something that is green
jumping to and fro
I saw something that is green.
so off we too can go!
With a big jump here
And a big jump there.
Frogs are here; frogs are there
Frogs are jumping everywhere!
I saw something that is green.
Did you see it too?


If you're Wearing any Green
(Tune: If You're Happy and You Know It)
If you're wearing any green, stand up tall (stretch up tall)
If you're wearing any green, stand up tall
If you're wearing any green, stand up tall against the wall.
If you're wearing any green, stand up tall

Additional verses:
If you're wearing any blue, Clap One Two! (clap clap)
If you're wearing any blue, Clap One Two!
If you're wearing any blue, then a clap will have to do
If you're wearing any blue, Clap One Two!
If you're wearing any yellow, shout hello HELLO
If you're wearing any yellow, then you're quite a happy fellow
If you're wearing any brown, touch the ground (crouch & touch the floor)
If you're wearing any brown, touch the ground and turn around
If you're wearing any red, shake your head
If you're wearing any red, shake your head and go to bed


Five Little Froggies
(use fingers or finger puppets)
Five little froggies sitting on a well
One looked up and down he fell (look up, then point down)
Froggies jumped high (reach up high)
Froggies jumped low (reach down low)
Four little froggies danced to and fro (Dance four fingers back and forth).
Four little froggies (continue until there are no little froggies left)


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