Roll and Color Activity

I first saw the idea for a Roll and Color coloring page on Making Learning Fun.  Emily and I had a great time playing this coloring game while practicing counting and numeral recognition.  The other day Emily wanted a Frog one (since she loves anything and everything green and frogs).  When I couldn’t find one on the site, I decided to make my own.

Here is how we played our roll and color game:

• I printed a Frog Roll and Color coloring page for Emily and one for myself.
• Emily rolled the die, counted the dots and then found that numeral on her coloring page.  Then she colored that section in.  Next, it was my turn (I had fun coloring too, if you like to color you will love this game!!).
• If you roll a number that you have already colored you miss your turn (Emily did really well with this and did not get upset that she didn’t get to go)
• The winner is the first to finish coloring all the numbered spots on the coloring page.

This is just one way that we have played this game, but their are so many more possibilities!

If you think of something else or try something else leave a comment and let us know.  I would love to hear your ideas :0)

Color By Number Activity

I came up with this fun twist on the traditional color by number coloring pages. Emily had a great time opening each egg to see what number and color each section of the picture would be.

To make this activity all you need are 6 colored plastic eggs, craft foam in colors to match the eggs and my color by number bunny printable (click on the link for a free download).

I cut out oval shapes from 6 different colors of craft foam and numbered each one from 1-6. Then I placed them inside each matching colored plastic egg.

Emily took out and egg, opened it up and colored the numbered space on the picture with the corresponding color.

stART ~ Duck on a Bike

 

Welcome to stART! I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too! The linky will be open all week.

This week we read Duck on a Bike, by David Shannon.  This is a really cute book about a duck that decides to take a bike for a ride around the farm.  All the animals think duck is silly, but at the end you get to see how they really feel!

Since Emily has been enjoying cutting and coloring I thought it would be fun for her to make Duck on a bike.  I found a duck printable and a bike printable for her to color and cut out.

 

Emily colored in the bike and the duck.  She used red since the duck road a red bike in the book.

 

Emily cut out the duck and the bike all by herself.

Emily glued white feathers onto the duck and then glued everything onto a piece of construction paper.

 

Emily’s Duck on a Bike!!

Color-A-Smile

This week Emily worked on coloring some pictures for Color-A-Smile.  This is a non-profit organization that collects pictures that are drawn or colored by children and then every month distributes them to Nursing Homes,
Meals on Wheels Programs, and Individuals all across the country.

If you visit the Color A Smile website you can print out coloring and drawing pages.  I love the idea of sharing the beauty of children’s art with others.

We are going to be sending our winter coloring pages in soon….I hope you will join us in helping to make people smile too!!!