From time to time as a mom I have heard other people talk about doing a "color" day. This means you designate a day a specific color and do special activities and things to celebrate that color. Now that Judah knows his colors, I decided to do just that.
A while back, we had the perfect rainy day to celebrate yellow. This idea definitely brightened up our day (literally). And it reinforced the emphasis of yellow in everyday life. I kept it simple though for my toddler.
Since we had a bunch of old parenting magazines laying around, we started looking for yellow objects throughout the pages. I would ask Judah to find something yellow and when he pointed out items like a duck, a lion, a banana, the sun, corn, and a lemon, I would cut it out (or he tore it out). Together we would glue them onto a yellow piece of construction paper, making a yellow collage. We still have the picture hung upstairs as a reminder.
For lunch we talked about yellow foods as we ate. Our yellow lunch menu contained macaroni and cheese with corn and banana. We even wore yellow that day. And walked around the house pointing out anything that fit the spectrum of yellow.
Making a day, "yellow" helped pass the time more productively. We had fun discovering what objects were yellow and certainly learned about our colors in the process.
So for the next rainy day, we will schedule another color. Any ideas?
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