Learning the Color Yellow

💡 About this activity

🎯 Learning objectives

• Point to or name at least one picture on the page.
• Make yellow marks on one or more pictures.
• Point to a yellow object at home with support.

🧺 What you need

• Printed page
• Thick yellow crayon
• Large, safe yellow objects available at home

👣 How to do it

1. Place the page and yellow crayon on a table.
2. Show your child the crayon and say, “This is yellow.”
3. Point to a picture and make a yellow mark to show how to color.
4. Invite your child to color the pictures in their own way.
5. Walk together through a safe area of your home and look for something yellow.
6. Finish by pointing to what you found and saying, “You found yellow!”

🍎 Teaching suggestions

• Name the pictures as your child points: “You found the sun!”
• If your child needs support, hold the paper steady and invite them to make one mark at a time.
• Welcome scribbles and praise the effort. There is no need to color inside the lines.
• If there are no yellow objects nearby, point to one on the page and look together another time.

🔀 Variations

💬 Talk about it

• What do you see in this picture?
• Where would you like to make a yellow mark?
• What else can we find that is yellow?

👀 What to look for

• Notice whether your child points to or names a picture.
• Look for yellow marks on one or more pictures.
• Notice whether your child points to a yellow object during the search, with support.