Friday is here and so is your fifth installment for preschool activity bags.
This activity introduces simple graphing skills as well as visual discrimination skills. It also helps your little student understand that one color comes in a variety of shades. An older student could even put the chips in order based on gradation (from the lightest shade to the darkest shade).
Supplies Needed:
- paint chip cards- the ladder kind are the best size for this (you will need cards for pink, orange, green, blue, and yellow; you will need FIVE different shades for each). If you choose the ladder kind of cards, you will only need 5-10 cards.
- magnet strips (optional)
- color graph printed on cardstock (laminate for durability, if desired)
- gallon sized Ziploc bag
Shades of Color Preschool Busy Bag Assembly:
1. Print the graph.
2. Cut it out so it will easily slide into your Ziploc bag.
3. Cut paint chips down to size so they will fit on the graph.
4. Laminate the chips, if desired.
5. Add small magnet pieces to the backs of the chips, if you like. I do this so that my son can place the graph on a cookie sheet and then add the chips. They "stick" which makes it a little bit more fun (and less frustrating) for my son.
6. Put everything (25 paint chips and graph) in your Ziploc bag and attach label with packing tape.
Shades of Color Busy Bag Option:
If you would like to choose your own five colors for this activity, you can download this free customizable template and type in the color names you would prefer. You will need to save it to your computer before you can customize it.
Shades of Color Custom Graph Template
Looking for more ideas? You can find all of my Preschool Activity Bag ideas here on the blog, and you can also check out my Pinterest Board.
Thank you so much for these great activity bag ideas this week! You have really helped jumpstart my own creative juices. I find I need to modify many activities for my visually-impaired, special needs son and you helped me jump “out of the box” and get thinking. Please share any new ideas you come up with in the future – they’re great!
Blessings,
Mrs. H
Great idea…reminds me of a Montessori exercise! I’m thinking of using velcro dots instead of magnets…so it can be used without the cookie sheet.
Thanks for sharing!
What a great week of idea you hav given us!! I have those same frogs at home and lots of foam shapes pieces so I will be working on preparing those 2 activities this weekend for Noah to use. Thanks for sharing.
I just found your blog yesterday and I love that you’re sharing your ideas for activity bags. Thank you.
Amy,
I’m enjoying your posts on preschool bags, we did an exchange this last year and they’ve been great for Joshua. Are you making up bags in addition to the ones that are in the preschool activity in a bag idea books? I’m rather amazed at what you accomplish! And I’m looking forward to what you are putting together for the ABC’s. With our little one at 5 months now and a first and third grader, I just can’t find any time to make up more things for preschool Joshua. I’m still so thankful for all of the resources at hss…hope you guys are doing well!
aimee