The Colour Blue

Toddler and Pre-School Theme Days

WRITING

BOOKS:

Search through your child’s books to find any that teach the colours and flip to the blue pages.

CRAYON AND PAPER:

Write the word "BLUE" on a piece of paper using light pencil and then give your child a red crayon (or marker) so he/she can trace it and then try to write it on his/her own.

Photo: Nasa

READING

Try some of these titles if you can find them:

· Dog Blue, by Polly Dunbar, Candlewick Press, 2004 – This book stars Bertie, a little boy who likes blue and who longs for a blue dog.

· Blue Goose, by Nancy Tafuri, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, 2008 – When Farmer Grey goes out for the day, four colourful animals, including Blue Goose, paint the grey farm with bright colours.

· The Great Blueness and Other Predicaments, story and pictures by Arnold Lobel, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968 – A longer story about a wizard who invents the primary colours one at a time to turn their grey world bright.