Turkey Feathers is a fun felt sets for singing about colors. I found three songs to sing about colors. They create interactive engagement during circle and story time. A great resource for Thanks Giving and for farm and color story times.
Did You Ever See a Turkey?
Sung to the tune of “Did you ever see a Lassie?”
Did you ever see a turkey, a turkey, a turkey, As he struts around the barn yard with feathers so bright? With red ones and orange ones and yellow ones and brown ones, Did you ever see a turkey with feathers so bright?
As you sing each color—Add the feathers that match
Turkey Wore his Red Feather
Tune “Mary Wore Her Red Dress”
Hold up a red turkey feather, ask children what color it is? Then sing:
Turkey wore his red feather, red feather, red feather. Turkey wore his red feather all day long.
This is a fun game of hide and seek where a a piece of cheese is hidden under one of the mice. Each mouse is a different color. And where you have to guess which mouse is hiding the cheese
First, put all of the mice on the felt board and discuss their different colors.
This is how you play:
Hide the cheese under one of the mice.
The children then try to guess which mouse is hiding the cheese.
The children then try to guess which color mouse has the cheese.
Chanting:
Little pink mouse, little pink mouse
Do you have the cheese?
Would you, Could you, share it with us please?
Then peak under the mouse to see if the cheese is there.
This fun activity and song investigates colors, increases vocabulary and promotes an understanding of similes.
Mary’s lambs are so fluffy. They are made using polar fleece for the sheep’s wool and felt for the bodies. Each sheep is 11.5cm tall (4.5 inches) and 7.5cm wide (3.5 inches).
Mary has lost her lamb and needs our help. We’ll have to sing to help her find the lost lamb. Out comes the first lamb and we sing:
Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb Mary had a little lamb, whose fleece was yellow as…… the sun!
But, of course, that is not the lamb Mary is looking for.
Out comes another lamb that we think may be the right one so we sing again:
Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb Mary had a little lamb, whose fleece was red as… an apple!
Continue singing for each different colored lamb until we find the one whose fleece was white as snow.
Suggestions for the other lambs include:
as black as night
as pink as fairy floss
as orange as carrots
as green as grass
as blue as the sky
as brown as chocolate
as grey as a storm cloud
Ask the children to make suggestions for each color.
Use as many or as few lambs at a time to suit the age and skill of the children playing
Inspired by Make Learning Fun and Mallory tells Stories and other blogs which I can’t find again. I ended up making my own patterns for this set.
Learn about colors and color mixing as Little White Rabbit magically changes color whilst playing with three buckets of paint.
Adapted by Kate McKnight from the book
White Rabbits Color Book by Alan Baker
Preparation for telling Little White Rabbit’s Colors
You either need 3 colored buckets – red, blue and yellow and a white bucket for the water bucket or other buckets with felt paint and water trickles attached to the sides.
Remember, don’t let the children peek in the buckets ahead of time!
Place the felt rabbits into the buckets as follows:
Yellow Bucket: Yellow and Green Rabbits
Red Bucket: Red, Orange and Brown Rabbits.
Blue Bucket: Blue and Purple Rabbits.
Water Bucket: 2 White Rabbits
(Begin story with third White Rabbit in your hand)
Little White Rabbit’s Colors Script
This is Little White Rabbit. She is white all over and has a fluffy white tail.
(hold up a white felt rabbit).
One day Little White Rabbit was hopping along and she found
one, two, three buckets of paint.
(point to the buckets as you count) and a bucket of water.
They were red, yellow and blue (point to each bucket as you say the colour).
“This one is sunshine yellow” said Little White Rabbit.
“I’ll take a quick dip. Hop, jump, splish, splash ,splish”.
(Put the white rabbit into the yellow bucket and take out a yellow rabbit)
Now Little White Rabbit is yellow like the sun.
“Now, what about red” said the Little White Rabbit.
Hop, jump, splish, splash ,splish.
(put yellow rabbit in the red bucket and take out an orange rabbit)
What’s this? Little White Rabbit has turned orange!
Look red and yellow together make orange.
(Point to the red and yellow buckets of paint as you name the colors.
“Time for a bath to wash off all the paint” said Little White Rabbit.
So Little White Rabbit jumped into the bucket of water.
Hop, jump, splish, splash,splish.
Rub a dub, dub.
Now Little White Rabbit is white again.
(Put the orange rabbit into the water bucket and take out a white rabbit).
Little White Rabbit said “Let’s try red on its own!”
Hop, jump, splish, splash, splish.
(put the white rabbit into the red bucket and pull out a red rabbit)
Now Little White Rabbit is red – hot sizzling red.
Little White Rabbit said “The bucket of blue paint looks so cool”
So she jumped into the blue bucket.
Hop, jump, splish, splash, splish.
(put the red rabbit into the blue bucket and take out a purple rabbit)
What’s this? Look now! Little White Rabbit is purple.
Look! Red and blue together make purple!
(Point to the buckets as you say each colour).
“Time for another bath to wash off the purple paint” said Little White Rabbit.
So Little White Rabbit jumped into the bucket of water.
Hop, jump, splish, splash ,splish. Rub a dub, dub.
Now Little White Rabbit is white again.
(Put the purple rabbit into the water bucket and take out a white rabbit)
Next Little White Rabbit jumped into the bucket of blue paint.
Hop, jump, splish, splash, splish.
(put the white rabbit into blue bucket and take out a blue rabbit).
Little White Rabbit is blue. An icy cold blue brrrr.
“How warm yellow looks” said Little White Rabbit.
So she jumped into the bucket of yellow paint.
Hop, jump, splish, splash, splish.
(put the blue rabbit into yellow bucket and take out a green rabbit)
What’s this? Now Little White Rabbit is green.
Look blue and yellow make green
(Point the blue and yellow paint as you say their name)
“Time for another bath” said Little White Rabbit.
Oh dear, there’s no more water in the water bucket!
All that was left was a little red paint.
Little White Rabbit said “I wonder what would happen if I jumped into the red bucket of paint”.
So she did. Hop, jump, splish, splash, splish.
(put a green rabbit into the red bucket and take out a brown rabbit)
Now Little White Rabbit is brown, a lovely warm brown.
Look blue, yellow and red together make brown.
(Point the blue and yellow and red paint as you say their name)
Little White Rabbit loved being brown.
“Brown is just right for me” said Little White Rabbit.
And away she hopped away to show all of her friends.
This felt set enables children to practice describing the apples by size using an interactive game that children love to play.
This is how we play.
First, put the three different apples on the felt board whilst discussing each apple’s size – you can use the words large, medium and small or big, middle sized and small or biggest, smallest, or largest – there are so many opportunities to expand vocabulary in a meaningful and fun way.
Next, in a sneaky way hide the worm behind one of the apples. If children are younger you might need to let the worm poke out just a little in the beginning.
Then, chant together :
Little worm, little worm playing hide and seek. Are you under the large/medium/small apple. Let’s take a peek.
Children then take turns guessing which sized apple the worm is hiding under by identifying an apple by size and removing it to search underneath for the worm.
If the child’s guess is incorrect replace apple and begin again.
The apple’s I’ve created are quite large the largest apple is 15cm by 16cm and the smallest is 7cm by 8cm so that it is easy to distinguish between the different sizes.
Although all of these apples in this felt set are red you could make a set with different colored apples – so that choices could be made based on colors. This could easily lead to a discussion about the different kinds of apples that you can eat and how they taste different.
This is a wonderful set to use when you want to investigate farms, food, Autumn, harvest, colours and sizes.
Inspired by Polar’s Bears Underwear by Tupera Tupera and One Little Librarian’s Adaptation for Story time and What Color is Bear’s Under Wear by Todd Doodler.
Help Polar Bear find his favorite Red Underwear.
Before starting:
Use a tissue box or similar to become a washing machine. Fill the “washing machine” with underwear trying to ensure the red underwear that fits perfectly is found last.
This felt set includes ten pairs of undies that fit Polar Bear Perfectly, one pair that is red but too small and one pair that is red but is much too big.
Oh no! Polar Bear lost his favorite underwear AGAIN! He really wanted to wear his red undies but where could they be?
Oh where or where did my red underwear go? Oh where, oh where can they be? I looked up high and I looked down low Did someone hide them from me?
Maybe the red underwear isn’t hiding, maybe its in the washing machine?
One by one pull underwear from the washing machine.
Ask the children if it is the red pair that Polar Bear is looking for.
Talk about the color of the underwear.
After trying the underwear on Polar Bear, put the underwear on the board next to Polar Bear. Then sing the song again.
When the red underwear that is too big or too small is found talk about who it might fit.
Cheer when the perfect red pair of underwear is found.
Put the red underwear on Polar Bear.
Then count 1-10 all of the underwear that fits polar bear, and talk about their colors and what color underwear everyone likes the best.
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