Tot School - Orange

Our next color of the week was orange. This was a difficult color to collect items for. It seems everything has the primary colors but orange seems to be left out. Here are a few activities that we worked on this week.

I started him with orange play dough. I gave up play dough after he ate it but that has been awhile, so I brought it back out.

He rolled and squashed it. J asked for a mini break from her school work so she could play as well.

They made orange cookies and such. You'll notice that Kaleb now has a work space of his own. I brought up the IKEA play table that we had so he could have his own space to work. He seems to like this although he still ends up on my lap for part of our school day.

I gave Kaleb red and orange paper as well as red and orange paper clips. The goal was to clip the paper clips onto the color paper. This was a bit too much for him, he wanted to just take them off.

I gave Kaleb some stickers and orange paper. He likes sticking stickers onto things and this is a great fine motor activity.

This is a new addition to our tot school. I taped a piece of orange paper to the bottom of a container and added a layer of salt. I gave Kaleb a paint brush so he could paint away. The idea for the salt tray came from Learning 4 Kids. After we work with the other colors, I will change this to a rainbow color bin. He really liked this. I had to remind him several times to keep the salt in the bin but this is a new activity. I can see later adding pictures to the colored paper to have him uncover them - such as shapes or trucks.

We worked on a color sorting activity with building bricks (like legos). He was really only interested in building with the blocks but it did keep his attention.

Lastly, he "painted" with J and this time he couldn't drink the water! J wouldn't let him. We are moving on to the color yellow and I will have a new tot bag soon. Have a great day.