“QUICK STARTS” FOR GREEN
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Look for green bugs outside. |
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Go on a green hunt, inside and outside. |
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Color a picture all green. |
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Play red light, green light. |
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Dress all in green. |
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Make green cellophane glasses. |
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Make green play dough. |
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Fringe green paper strips to make grass. |
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Make a book and paste in pictures of green things. |
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Make a green paper chain. |
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Make lime Jello. |
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Add green items to your Homemaking Area. |
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Count green cars while riding in the car. |
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GREEN COLLAGE PAINTINGS
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Invite your children to help tear or cut green pictures out of magazines. |
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Give them large pieces of white paper, and set out some green tempera paint. |
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Let the children brush the paint on their papers. |
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Then have them select some green pictures to place on the wet paint to create green collages. |
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SHADES OF GREEN
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Pour white tempera paint into muffin tins or small cups. |
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Show your children how to mix the white paint with different amounts of green paint to create new shades of green. |
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Then, let your children use the green paint to paint a green picture.
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GREEN 3-D SHAMROCKS
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Cut out 5’ shamrock shapes from heavy green paper. |
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Cut out some 1” green tissue squares. |
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Set out small bowls of glue, and some unsharpened pencil |
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Give each of your children a shamrock shape and some of the green tissue squares. |
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Show your children how to twist a paper square around the end of an unsharpened pencil, then dip the tissue into the glue and then place it on their shamrock shape. |
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Have your children cover their shamrocks with the green tissue “twists”. |
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ADDITIONAL SHAMROCK ART
Can be found at the Art Station.
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GREEN TURTLES
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Cut out large turtle shapes for your children. |
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Have children paint their turtles green. |
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When the turtles are dry, let children decorate their turtles with:
- Green glitter
- Green stickers
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GREEN FINGER PAINTING
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Place a spoonful of yellow finger paint and a spoonful of blue finger paint on sheets of finger painting paper. |
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Let your children use their fingers to mix up the yellow and blue paints to make green paint.
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COUNTING JELLYBEANS
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Place some jellybeans in a zipper-top plastic bag. |
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Have children estimate (guess) how many beans are in the bag. |
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Take out the beans and count them. |
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Share the jellybeans with your children. |
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FROG COUNT
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Number five paper lily pads from 1 to 5. |
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Then set out 15 green plastic frogs. |
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Let your children take turns placing the appropriate number of frogs on each lily pad.
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GREEN PRINT SEARCH
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Use a rubber stamp to make several green prints at random on a piece of white paper. |
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Fill the rest of the paper with identical stamped-on prints in other colors. |
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To play, have your child search for the green prints and circle them with a green crayon or marker. |
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GREEN IS FOR “GO”
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From construction paper, cut out a large red circle and a large green circle. |
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Turn the circles into signs by attaching a craft stick handle to each one. |
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In an open area, invite your children to drive pretend cars in a large circle. |
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As they do so, hold up the red sign to bring the drivers to a stop and the green sign to signal that they can go. |
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Let your children take turns holding up the signs.
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GREEN LEAF SORT
Set out this fun shape sorting game for your children.
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Collect four green leaves from four different kinds of green plants. |
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Set the leaves on a table. |
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Let your children take turns sorting the leaves into like piles. |
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“I SPY” GAME
Games like this help your children develop thinking skills.
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Have your children take turns looking around and choosing a specific green object. |
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Then have them say “I spy something green. Can you guess what it is?” |
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Have the rest of the class take turns trying to guess the object. |
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Be sure there are many green objects in your room before playing the game.
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MAKING GREEN
With your children, try these experiments to discover what happens when blue and yellow are mixed together.
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Pour light corn syrup into a zipper-top plastic bag. Add drops of blue and yellow food coloring, seal the bag, and tip it back and forth to see the colors blend and turn green. |
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Squeeze drops of blue and yellow food coloring onto white paper towels or coffee filters. Watch green appear as the colors blend.
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ADDITIONAL GREEN DISCOVERIES
Check out “Growing Green” at the Discovery Station, under Spring Activities. |
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GREEN SNACK IDEAS
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Add chopped spinach to scrambled eggs. Serve after reading “Green Eggs & Ham”. |
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Make pistachio pudding. |
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Cut up green vegetables, (such as, broccoli, green pepper sticks, green cucumbers, green beans) and serve with spinach dip. |
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Serve guacamole with chips. |
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Make green frosting for cupcakes or cookies. |
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Serve honeydew melon. |
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Let children help you make a green salad. |
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Serve limeade. |
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THERE’S A COLOR WE ALL KNOW
Tune: “OLD MAC DONALD HAD A FARM”
There’s a color we all know,
G-R-E-E-N.
It’s the color that means “Go!”
G-R-E-E-N.
Oh, grass is green and lettuce is green,
Leaves and spinach and peas are green.
There’s a color we all know,
G-R-E-E-N.
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