Rainbow tree preschool: FREE Rainbow Trees Color Sorting Printable – 5 Activities with One FREE Printable
Rainbow Trees Color Sorting Activity Your Preschoolers Will Love
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by Sarah Punkoney, MAT
This rainbow trees color sorting activity is a fun way for young children to practice color recognition and sorting while also working on their fine motor skills. Grab your free printable below and add it to your math center or fine motor center. Your preschoolers will love it!
There are a lot of differing opinions on what kind of content should be taught in preschool. And the methodology…wow! Now that could seriously start a debate!
But one thing that all preschool teachers and parents seem to agree on is that learning colors is a big part of being a preschooler. As teachers and parents, it’s something we can all count on teaching.
Many times, children will naturally learn color recognition through ordinary, daily activities in their lives. Things like reading books, choosing out their clothing, and playing with blocks all help children with color recognition.
One of the most effective ways I have found to teach preschoolers color names is by sorting. When you introduce sorting to your preschooler, colors are a great place to start. And many children naturally enjoy matching and sorting colors, too!
Recently, my preschool-aged sons found my bin of rainbow colored buttons, so I put together this simple free printable for them to use while sorting the buttons.
Rainbow Trees Color Sorting Activity
This activity is quick to prepare and set up. Nice and simple, which is one thing that makes it awesome for a quiet-time bin or a busy bag. Once your preschooler knows what to do, they can easily work independently.
Materials
- FREE rainbow trees printable (found at the end of this post)
- buttons in rainbow colors
The Set-Up
Simply print out the rainbow trees in color on heavy card stock and laminate for added durability.
Set them out with a bin of buttons in rainbow colors. Invite your child to join you in sorting the buttons.
The Activity
My boys love to play with buttons. There’s something calming about a button box. It gives you the same kind of satisfaction as playing with kinetic sand or running your fingers through a rice sensory bin. The first thing my son did was to stir the buttons like he was stirring a pot of stew.
Then, he began to sort the buttons. First, choosing out several blue buttons because that’s his favorite color, before sorting other colors.
And that is pretty typical. Often when children are tasked to sort between multiple features (like multiple colors) they will pick out select colors first. My son gingerly sorted through the buttons to pick out several blue buttons before moving on to others.
Not only does this activity work on color matching and recognition, but since we are using buttons, it also works on fine motor skills. Picking up the buttons naturally encourages the use of the pincer grasp, which is needed for the right pencil grasp.
Four Other Color Sorting Activities
The six colors of the rainbow can be overwhelming for a preschooler. Here are some ways to modify this activity for the skill of your preschooler:
- For the youngest preschoolers, they might be most interested in dumping the buttons onto all the trees and haphazardly arranging them. This is okay. It will increase their interest in colors, as well as their fine motor skills. (Be sure to use buttons that are large enough not to be choking hazards).
- To simplify the activity, start by sorting out only two or three colors at once; for youngest preschoolers very contrasting colors, like red, yellow and blue.
- To make the activity more challenging, offer your preschooler a set of three colored trees but the whole rainbow of buttons. This will encourage your preschooler to search for specific colors while sorting out the colors that are not needed at all. Some preschoolers might even make a separate pile of discarded buttons.
- Invite your preschooler to search for other matching colors around the room.
- Invite your preschooler to name items that are matching colors of each button sorted.
Want More Rainbow Activities?
Then you’ve got to see these! And don’t forget your free printable underneath!
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT:
DIY Rainbow Clip Busy Bag
Rainbow Trees Color Sorting Activity
I Spy Letters Sensory Bag
Rainbow Counting Bead Activity
Get Your FREE Color Sorting Printable
Think this is something your preschooler will enjoy? Grab your free copy by clicking the download button below.
Want More Sorting and Math Activities?
Then you might like these printable math packs!
Sarah Punkoney, MAT
I’m Sarah, an educator turned stay-at-home-mama of five! I’m the owner and creator of Stay At Home Educator, a website about intentional teaching and purposeful learning in the early childhood years.
I’ve taught a range of levels, from preschool to college and a little bit of everything in between. Right now my focus is teaching my children and running a preschool from my home. Credentials include: Bachelors in Art, Masters in Curriculum and Instruction.
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Summary of GCD with the use of non-traditional techniques of drawing with cotton buds (Pointillism) | Preschool education
Author: Malkina Anna Vladimirovna
Organization: MADOU d / kindergarten № 57
Location: Saratov region, Balakovo
Purpose: Development of creative and cognitive abilities in children.
Tasks:
Educational: to teach to expand children’s ideas about fine arts, to introduce types of non-traditional drawing, to distinguish trees, to draw, to learn how to hold a cotton swab correctly.
Developing: develop the ability, fine motor skills of hands, make children want to draw, deepen vocabulary.
Educational: To cultivate responsiveness, curiosity, to love nature, not to harm wildlife, to learn how to use cotton buds carefully, to cultivate interest in drawing.
Materials: album sheet, gouache, cotton swabs, napkins.
Integration: speech development, artistic and aesthetic development, cognitive development, social and communicative development.
Methods and techniques used:
Verbal: Artistic word, conversation, memorizing the words of a physical minute.
Visual: showing illustrations.
Practical: non-traditional cotton swab drawing (Pointillism).
Children’s activities: motor, play, productive, cognitive research.
Preliminary work: communication with children, looking at illustrations of trees, memorizing the words of a physical minute, talking about changes in trees at different times of the year.
Direct educational activities
Educator : Hello guys!
– Today we will travel to the country of drawing.
– The phone is ringing.
The teacher answers:
– Yes, I’m listening, who are you?
Artist:
-I am an unusual artist. And you, Anna Vladimirovna? Kindergarten teacher “Rainbow World”?
Caretaker:
– Yes.
Artist:
– I invite you and your children to my drawing country.
First solve my riddle:
“We saw him in spring and summer
dressed.
And in the autumn the poor thing was
All shirts were torn off
But winter blizzards
They dressed him in furs. ( Tree)
Meeting with a magic artist.
Artist : Hello children.
Children: Hello!
Artist:
– Do you want to learn magic drawing? (Children: Yes)
– See what trees grow on the territory of our kindergarten?
– What kind of trees do you know?
Children:
– Rowan, willow, spruce, poplar, shrubs.
Artist:
-Well done many different trees you know.
– I will now show you the drawings, they are drawn with cotton swabs. (The artist shows drawings drawn with cotton buds)
Artist:
– Children, how can you draw a tree? (Children answer: with a brush, pencils, crayons, etc.)
Artist:
– True, but today I will teach you how to draw trees with cotton swabs. We will draw a tree with an unusual color of leaves and call it: “Rainbow Tree”.
An artist shows children how to draw a tree with cotton swabs. Next, the children have independent work. The teacher helps the children while drawing.
Fizminutka “Tree”
Hands raised and shook –
These are trees in the forest.
Hands bent, brushes shaken –
The wind knocks down the dew.
Hands to the sides, gently wave –
These are birds flying towards us.
We will also show how they sit down –
Wings folded back. (Exercises are performed according to the text)
Artist:
-Children, look, we have a whole forest of magical trees.
-Let’s admire our drawings.
The artist praises the children and says goodbye.
Reflection :
Educator:
-What did we draw the children today? (Children: trees)
-What did we draw with? (Children: cotton buds)
-What did we call our trees (Children: “Rainbow”)
-Were you interested?
References :
1. Veraksy, NE From birth to school. Exemplary basic general educational program of preschool education, ed. N. E. Veraksy, T. S. Komarova, M. A. Vasil’eva. – M.: Mosaic-Synthesis, 2011
2. Kazakova, R. G. Drawing classes with preschoolers: textbook.
– method. Benefit. Tskvitaria T. A. Non-traditional drawing techniques.
3. Integrated lessons in preschool. – M.: TC Sfera 2011
4. Drawing with preschool children / ed. R. G. Kazakova. – Moscow, 2006.
5. Shvaiko GS Classes in fine arts in kindergarten. – Moscow. 2003. Unconventional Drawing Techniques…
Applications:
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Published: 02/17/2020
MBOU Savvino-Karinskaya secondary school Preschool department-Detsk garden No. 63
Group team:
Educator: Kalashnikova Lyubov Aleksandrovna – Higher qualification category
TsUKANOVA Valentinovna-Without category Aleshi Equalni teacher: Baksarova Elena Vladimirovna
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Sports – this is life
We read fairy tales A.