PURPLE WEEK  

PURPLE CIRCLES

Have your children use purple paint dobbers to make purple circle prints on a piece of paper.
 

PURPLE CRAYONS
Set out purple crayons for your children to color with.
 
PURPLE PAINT
Let children paint or fingerpaint with purple paint.
 
PURPLE COLLAGES
Make purple collages. Give your children sheets of contact paper (sticky side up) and an assortment of purple items; such as; purple straw flowers, purple ribbon pieces, purple paper shapes, purple paper scraps. Have children stick the purple items onto their papers.
 
PURPLE ACTIVITIES
Purple Dress-up – Set out purple clothing items for your children to use for dress-up. Such as; purple hats, capes, scarves, and socks.
Purple Parade – Plan a purple parade with your children. Let them carry such things as purple flags, purple streamers or pom-poms. Have them wear purple hats.
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 item out of the purse. Continue the story incorporating the item into the story. Continue letting children draw out items, and them working them into the story, until all of the children have had a turn.
 
PURPLE SNACKS
Grape jelly on crackers
Grape juice
Grape Jello
Purple grapes cut in half. (Whole grapes can be a choking hazard)
    
PURPLE SONGS
 

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
(You can also sing this song about grape juice and grape jelly.)