Children discover that familiar plants and foods can produce colour, extracting and using pigments across five colour investigations. The experiments are paired with letter Ee practice and hands-on construction and recognition of rectangles.
What children learn
- Identify natural sources of red, blue, orange, yellow, and green.
- Extract colour from flowers, fruits, vegetables, leaves, and spices.
- Compare natural colours and consider how colours can be mixed.
- Recognise, trace, and write Ee and construct and identify rectangles.
Key activities
- Extracting red colour from red flowers
- Sorting blue natural items and making blue pigment
- Grating carrots to investigate orange colour
- Exploring yellow with turmeric and fenugreek
- Painting with green juice made from leafy ingredients
You’ll need
red flowers and white paper, jamun or blue flowers, carrots and a grater, turmeric and fenugreek, spinach and other green leaves, cotton balls, bowls and tissue paper, rectangle objects and loose parts, letter Ee cards
Structure: 5 days; each day: Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, EVS, Literacy, Numeracy