Y is for Yellow

• Read “In My New Yellow Shirt” by Eileen Spinelli
  1. A little boy receives a new yellow shirt for his birthday and imagines all of the different things he can be wearing his yellow shirt … a lion, a daffodil, a firefly.
  2. As you read the title, point to each of the words.
  3. Can your preschooler point out the word “Yellow”
  4. Point out all of the yellow things you see as you read the story!

  

• Yellow Shirt Cut & Paste
  1. Cut out a simple shirt shape from yellow cardstock.
  2. Look through magazines to find yellow things.
  3. Let the kids practice cutting out any yellow things they like and glue them to their yellow shirt.

 

• Twinkle, Twinkle Yellow Star … my kids loved this. We played it over and over again. I love these washable paints.
  1. Paint a wooden star cut out with yellow paint and let dry. Or simply cut out a star from yellow cardstock. I just traced a star cookie cutter on cardboard and cut it out.
  2. TIP: Paint your star before reading the story and doing the yellow shirt activity so it will be dry!
  3. Write your preschooler’s name on their star.
  4. Hide the stars somewhere in the room.
  5. Sing the following song to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”
  6. Have the kids search for the star with their name on it!

• Yellow Snack
  1. Fill dessert cups with vanilla pudding.
  2. Add sliced bananas and a little dollop of whipped cream!

• Yellow Storytime
  1. Have your preschooler look through the bookshelf and pull out all of the yellow books.
  2. It’s great color practice and makes storytime a little more fun

Yellow Day

Having a yellow day during Y week is simple and fun. Here are some things we did for yellow day.

• Wear yellow clothes
• Yellow Walk
1. Go for a walk and find yellow flowers.
2. We also saw bright yellow birds in the tree!
3. If you collect a few dandelions, pop the flowers off, then slice the stems at either end and float in a sink of cold water. The stems will curl up and look so neat!
• Have vanilla pudding and banana slices for snack.
• Find anything yellow in your house. Wyatt loved running into his room to find the yellow toys and bringing them out to show me.
• Play with yellow playdoh, make Ys
• Go on a yellow hunt. Use a notebook and yellow crayon. Draw pictures of the yellow things you find.
• Try this song to the tune of “Old McDonald Had a Farm”…

I see something that is yellow

Do you see it too?

I see something that is yellow

Hop there if you do

With a  hop, hop here, And a hop, hop there.

Hurry up! Hop it up!

Hop as fast as you dare!

I see something that is yellow.

Do you see it too?

Yellow Yarn

• Glue Y Page … Start your week by gluing yellow yarn to your letter Y alphabet page. I had my 3-year-old help measure the yarn to fit on the three Y lines, then he cut them.
• Cutting Yarn
  1. My 3-year-olds favorite activity was actually using his little scissors to cut, cut and cut little pieces of yellow yarn.
  2. It’s great cutting practice for those little fingers.
  3. Then we glued some of them onto our letter Y.

• Make a yarn puff ball. So easy and the little ball you end up with can be used for all sorts of games. Image from Art Projects for Kids.
  1. Cut a piece of cardboard about 2”x4” (the wider your cardboard, the bigger your puff ball)
  2. Start winding the yarn around and around the cardboard. Not too tightly or it’s hard to get off. The more you wind, the thicker and puffier the ball will be.
  3. Carefully slide the yard off, keeping it looped.
  4. Tie a piece of yard tightly around the middle and knot it a couple of times.
  5. Cut all of the loops and you have a puffy yard ball!