Color Preschool Activities

If you are going to teach colors (or numbers!) (or zoo animals!) to a preschooler, I have got the best book and activity for you.  Ever since I was a little girl Mrs. Karle would read me the book Too Many Balloons by Catherine Mathias.  She used it in her classroom.   It is simple and repetitive and really cute.  It is a great supplement to our free online reading program because it contains many color and number words.   So, because I love the book so much, I decided to write a lesson plan for it! You may remember when I wrote about teaching a preschool colors theme…well, this is a great lesson of color preschool activities!

Too Many Balloons (Rookie Reader: Counting, Numbers, and Shapes)Demasiados Globos (Too Many Balloons) (Rookie Ready to Learn Espaol) (Spanish Edition)

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Too Many Balloons by Catherine Matthias is a fantastic book for preschool and kindergarten children.  The book teaches and reinforces colors, numbers, and animals.  You can do a math activity with it, you can do a reading activity with it, you can do a Spanish activity with it, you can even do science activities with it.  It is so flexible and easy to modify to fit any child or lesson plan.

Color Preschool Activities

To do this color preschool activities book, read Too Many Balloons by Catherine Matthias  Here is my second grader reading the book to us..

The book is very simple and repetitive.  After a child hears the book once they immediately want to try reading it.  My 3 year old loves to read this book!  He can tell by the pictures exactly what the book says!

After reading the book, I passed out the activity sheets.  The sheets correspond with each page in the book, so if the girl purchases 1 red balloon for the lion, the children get to give the lion one red balloon.  We used little colored stickers (like the ones you use for garage sales) as our balloons.  The two and four year olds got great practice with fine motor and taking off the stickers and with coloring the little round circles.  The four year old had a great time reading the color and number words and matching them with the correct animals.  The kindergarten student also did a great job reading and matching and counting all the balloons.  My second grader really enjoyed helping with the activity.  As an extra challenge, we read Too Many Balloons in Spanish!  She also counted all the balloons in the book to figure out just exactly how many balloons were too many.  One day we hope to do a science experiment…  how many balloons are too many?

I highly encourage you to check out the book Too Many Balloons by Catherine Matthias.  There are so many ways you can modify the book to work for your classroom or homeschool.  After you read the book, do this fun free activity!  To get this fun free book activity, enter your email into the form below.  You will be added to our mailing list where you will find out about more fun things!

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