The color Purple by Jean Warren

THE COLOR PURPLE

PURPLE QUICK STARTS

	Have your children color with a purple crayon.
	Paint with purple paint.
	Use purple paint dauber to make purple circles.
	Look for purple flowers on a nature walk.
	Let your child care for a purple plant.
	Set out purple clothes and items in your Dress-Up area.
	Make purple purses using purple construction paper.
	Make purple milk by adding red and blue food coloring to milk.
	Make purple frosting to spread on graham crackers.
	Play the song “The Purple People Eater” for your children.
	Use purple flower pictures cut from seed catalogs to make a flower mural.

PURPLE ART

PURPLE PRINTS
Pour folded paper towels in pie pans and pour on purple paint, then invite your children to try these activities.

	Press corks onto the paint, then stamp them on paper to make grape prints.
	Cut thin sponges into tulip shapes. Dip the shapes into the paint and sponge-print tulips on paper. Add green crayon stems and leaves.

PURPLE COLLAGES

	Give your children sheets of contact paper, sticky side up.
	Then set out some purple items; such as; purple straw flowers, purple ribbon pieces, purple paper shapes, purple paper scraps, etc.
	Have your children choose purple items to stick onto their papers to create purple collages.

PURPLE PANSIES
You will need real purple pansies and a hammer for this activity.

	Give each child a piece of white paper that has been folded in half.
	Give each child a purple pansy and have them place the pansy inside the fold of the paper.
	Now let children take turns hammering the paper where the pansy is located.
	After a few blows, the child can open the paper to discover an imprint of the pansy is now on one side of the paper inside.
	The hammering has forced some of the purple color of the flower onto the paper.

PURPLE PUPPETS

	Give your children circles cut from purple paper.
	Have them draw faces on the circles and glue on purple Easter grass or yarn for hair.
	Then give your children strips of purple paper, folded accordion-style to attach for arms and legs.
	To complete their puppets, help the children glue or tape on craft stick handles to the backs of their circles.
	Encourage your children to use their purple puppets when singing songs about purple, or making up purple stories.

PURPLE GAMES

PICKING PURPLE

	In a basket, place small purple items plus items of other colors, such as feathers, manipulatives, crayons or felt shapes.
	Now invite your children to take turns choosing a purple items from the box.
Alternative: You can play this as an individual game by setting out the basket and placing a piece of purple paper next to it. Children can take turns looking for all the purple items in the basket and taking them out and placing them on the paper.

PURPLE PUZZLES

	Let your children use purple crayons and markers to draw pictures on pieces of heavy paper.
	Cut each child’s picture into several puzzle pieces and store them in an envelope labeled with the child’s name.
	Then have the children exchange envelopes and try putting each other’s puzzles together.

PURPLE LANGUAGE

PURPLE PURSE STORY

	Place small purple items in a purple purse.
	Sit with your children in a circle on the floor.
	Start a story and then let a child come up and draw a purple items out of the purse.
	Continue the story incorporating the item into the story.
	Continue letting children draw out items and working them into the story until all the children have had a turn.

PURPLE SCIENCE

MAKING PURPLE
What happens when red and blue are mixed together? Try these experiments with your children to find out.

	Use food coloring to make red and blue ice cubes in a clean plastic-foam egg carton. Drop one red and one blue ice cube into a glass of water and wait for a new color to appear.
	Squeeze drops of red and blue food coloring into a clear plastic bottle of water. Fasten the cap securely, then roll the bottle to blend the colors and create purple.
	Give each child a small ball of red play dough and blue play dough. Have them squeeze the dough together until the color of the dough in their hand changes to purple.

PURPLE SNACKS

PURPLE SNACKS
Try serving one of these foods at snacktime.

	Grape juice
	Purple plums
	Purple grapes (cut in half)
	Grape jelly on toast

PURPLE SONGS & RHYMES

WE LOVE PURPLE
Tune: “Frere Jacques”

We love purple, we love purple.
Yes, we do. Yes, we do.
Purple grapes and eggplant,
Purple plums and grape juice,
Just for me, just for you.
Heather McPhail

GRAPE JELLO
Grape Jello, Grape Jello, oh what fun!
Grape Jello, Grape Jello, in my tum.
Grape Jello, Grape Jello, oh what fun!
Grape Jello, Grape Jello, yum, yum, yum!
Jean Warren

PURPLE PAINT
Tune: “Mary Had A Little Lamb”

First you paint with red paint,
Red paint, red paint.
First you paint with red paint,
Then you add some blue.

Then you mix the paint around
Paint around, paint around
Then you mix the paint around,
‘til purple you have found.
Jean Warren

Music Fun – look up on line for the words to the song “The Flying Purple People Eater”.

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