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Color Word Activities with Hearts

We’re learning color words with a heart theme!  Here are several activities that will encourage your child to learn how to spell color words, even in a new language.  A fun activity for Valentine’s day or anything time of year.
Color Word Activities for Kids from The Educators' Spin On It

During the week we worked on our Paper Bag Book About Colors which inspired several Heart Activities for Valentine’s Day.  There are many activities that incorporate color which made it easy to sort the colors onto each page of the color book.  Hope our activities can inspire you for your own Heart Fun with your child.

Heart Themed Color Word Activities 

Want to make your own Paper Bag Book?

Click for Tuturial Bilingual Babies: Learning Colors through Valentines

We created and labeled sorting containers for our colors.

 

As she was sorting we would do half with English and Half with Hindi and if she couldn’t remember she would use her Paper Bag Book to look it up.  We also practiced writing the Color word into the book as we did each activity.

She traced color words and hearts
Then she matched the traced words to the color words
Then we matched up the hearts to the color words

After tracing, matching and sorting it was time to start Dot Painting Hearts using each color.  As my daughter stamped she sung a little tune of the color she was using. The more learning methods you can use while learning make a bigger impression on the brain.  Dot Painting provided my daughter with bodily kinesthetic, language, musical learning opportunities.  For more information on Learning Modalities.  In the article Howard Gardner refers to multiple intelligences as tools to use in teaching and learning.

We created heart letters so that we could spell out each color word in both Hindi and English.  You can easily do this with any language and any concept!

Here are are a few more Valentine Projects we worked on this week.
Sponge Painting with Hearts
Heart Butterfly Valentine’s
Handprint Valentine
Marshmallow Cake Pops for friends

 

Heart Activities planned for this upcoming week

  • Heart Stamping

We’re going to stamp using a heart cookie cutters with many different colors.  Once dry cut out the hearts and place them into the matching color word.

  • Resist Painting with Water Colors

Water color hearts with all the colors.  First write the color words with a white crayon for some resist painting.

  • Patterning & Counting Hearts

We created heart patterns and counted with hearts in Hindi and English.  Then we even created our own little heart chart with number words.

Now that we’re working on color words I found a few great sites for more activities.

Colors of Love Sight Word Game
From Criss-Cross Applesauce
Here’s another inspiration for a Paper Bag Color Book
from Share and Remember
Rainbow Sensory Tub from
No Time For Flash Cards (One of my Favorite Sites)
Healthy Eating Made Fun For Kids!
Today I At a Rainbow
Here’s a great site for Eating 5 a Day with fruits and veggies and rainbow fun!
Need some ideas for Valentine’s Day Check Out Our Pinterest Board

Here are some other Heart Inspired Posts for you from The Educators’ Spin On It!

  • Stamping to 100 Heart Chain
  • Bird Seed Heart and Poem
  • Baby Time Make Your Own Valentine Blocks
  • Bilingual Babies: Learning Colors through Valentines
  • Heart Handprint Card
  • Decorating for Valentine’s Day
  • Heart Breadsticks
  • Heart Pizza
 Hope you have a very special Valentine’s Day with your loved ones.  And who knows maybe learn how to spell a new color word 🙂

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Filed Under: Arts, Kids Activities Tagged With: Afterschool Express, Colors, Kim, Valentine's Day

About Kim Vij

Early childhood teacher, author, speaker and mom of 3. Kim shares ways to make learning fun and parenting an adventure by sharing developmentally appropriate activities.

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Comments

  1. Kim @ The Educators' Spin On It says

    February 12, 2012 at 12:24 pm

    Thanks Leanne for inviting us to link up! Looks like a great resource of blogs! Can't wait to check them out.

    Reply
  2. Tanya Solano says

    February 12, 2012 at 11:28 pm

    What a fantastic blog! I'm your newest follower…and I just presented you with an award. Hop on over and check it out!
    ❤Tanya
    Ms. Solano's Kindergarten

    Reply
  3. PrairieJenn says

    February 13, 2012 at 10:36 am

    Love all the multisensory learning fun!!!

    Reply
  4. maryanne @ mama smiles says

    February 13, 2012 at 1:13 pm

    I LOVE all the colors in this post! Looks like a fantastic, educational week!

    Reply
  5. Raising a Happy Child says

    February 13, 2012 at 2:01 pm

    You've been busy! I love your heart-related activities.

    Reply
  6. Beth (www.livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com) says

    February 14, 2012 at 4:25 pm

    What fun activities! You did so many fun color projects!!!! Thanks for linking up to TGIF =-)
    Beth

    Reply
  7. Lindsi B says

    February 14, 2012 at 8:55 pm

    I'd love it if you would share this with my readers for Fun Stuff Fridays. Would you please link up? http://www.toysinthedryer.com/2012/02/14-days-of-valentines-fun-stuff-fridays_10.html

    Reply
  8. Kim @ The Educators Spin On It says

    February 26, 2012 at 9:31 pm

    I linked it up Lindsi, thanks for inviting us. Love your site!

    Reply
  9. Deborah Alter-Rasche says

    January 29, 2013 at 7:29 am

    Thanks for linking this to Tuesday Tots. Just letting you know that I've featured this post on this week's TTs. You can see it here: (http://www.learnwithplayathome.com/2013/01/10-fun-valentines-activities-for.html) and collect a featured button if you like 🙂

    Reply
  10. pink and green mama MaryLea says

    March 27, 2013 at 11:49 pm

    Those are great! Thanks for linking up to my Rainbow Linky Party!

    Warmly,
    Pink and Green Mama
    MaryLea

    Reply

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