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Printable Around the House Scavenger Hunts

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Are you looking for a fun way to explore shape and colors with your children? These sets of printable around the house scavenger hunts could be just what you were looking for. They can start with looking for objects that are the specific color displayed on a card. Once they have located objects for each color, they can move one  that focusing on to hunting for objects that are a certain shape.

What is in each set?

The scavenger hunts set contains cards that you cut out. After cutting the cards out, you can place them on a ring.

Getting the Scavenger Hunts

The Around the House Scavenger Hunts  have been saved in one PDF. You can download the full set and open them with a PDF reader like Acrobat Reader. Then you can decide which hunt you want to print out.

The following are the available scavenger hunts:

First, there is a set of color hunt cards that displays colored crayons. Your children can start looking for colors around your house right away with this set.

Second, there is a set of color hunt cards that displays uncolored crayons. The cards can be colored by you or your child.

Third, there is a set of shape cards that displays shapes that are colored in. Like the colored crayons this set is ready to print and use.

Finally, there is a set of uncolored shape cards. It will be up to you to decide if these cards need to be colored in.  The cards are ready to use if you don’t think they need to be colored.

Getting the Cards Ready

You may want to print the set or sets on card stock rather than paper. It will make the cards sturdier. Laminating the cards is also a great idea. It will make them more durable.

You can keep the cards separate or place them on a metal ring. If you plan on having your child look for an object and leave it where it is, you may want the cards on a ring. If you plan on having your child reviewed what they have found and gathered in one place, you may want the cards off a ring.

Building Background Before Starting the Scavenger Hunts

Before starting any of the scavenger hunts, you may want to read a book that features color or shapes. Below you will find a number of wonderful books that explore shapes and/or colors.

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Scavenger Hunting

There are several ways you can have your children conduct their hunt.

  • They could be given the set of cards on ring or separately.
  • Children could be told they can search all over the house or in a specific room.
  • The scavenger hunt can be conducted around the inside or outside of the house.

Here are some more fun learning activities:

Learning Activities with Dr Seuss Characters

Cat in the Hat Math Mats

Kindergarten Worksheets- Gold Coin Math Mats

Gold Coin Number Mats

Counting to Ten Algorithm Coding Worksheet for Preschoolers

Counting to 10 with an Algorithm

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Bear Dreamed About Colors Printable Book to Color

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Bear Dream About Colors Printable Book - This printable was created to explore after reading the book Bear Snores On.

Have you ever wondered what bears dream about while they hibernate? Well, this book to color suggests that maybe bears dream that they are different colors. Your children will have fun exploring colors can they read and color the pages in this free coloring printable.

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This activity was created to go along with the book Bear Snores On. While you don’t have to read it to your children before they explore this book, it would be fun too.

Bear Snores On

Getting Ready to Use this Book to Color

Printing the Bear Dreamed About Colors

Bear Dream About Colors Printable Book - This printable was created to explore after reading the book Bear Snores On. Children at school or students at school will enjoy this book to color. There is a you color version and a bear is already colored version.

You will need to download the Bear Dreamed About Colors BW Book. Then you can print it out on a color printer. If you don’t want your children to color the bears, I did create a version of the book with the bears colored. It is called Bear Dreamed About Colors Printable.  

Bear Dream About Colors Printable Book - This printable was created to explore after reading the book Bear Snores On. Children at school or students at school will enjoy this book to color. There is a you color version and a bear is already colored version. This is what it looks like.

Putting the Book Together

First, you will need to cut each of the pages in half. Each printable page has two book pages on it. Then you will need to put the cover of the book on top of the story pages. You can put the colors in any order that you want. I placed our pages in the order they printed out on the printer.

Putting Out the Supplies

You will need to decide what color tools you want your children to use.Crayola jumbo crayonscolored pencil set or Crayola washable markers would be great to color the bears with.

Coloring the Pages of the Book

You may want to have your children color one page at a time. If you are worried they will color the bear on a page the wrong color, you could give them one page at a time. Then only put out the coloring tool that matches that page. I like to give kids all the colors they will need. Then they can seek out the color I tell them they will need for that page.

Bear Dream About Colors Printable Book - This printable was created to explore after reading the book Bear Snores On. Children at school or students at school will enjoy this book to color. There is a you color version and a bear is already colored version. This is the cover of the book.

Children can color the area around the bears in either version of the book.  They can add other objects that are the same color of the bear or show where the bear dreamed he was.

Reading the Bear Dreamed About Colors

If your children are beginning readers, you may want them to echo the words you read out loud on each page. You could also partner read with them. You read a page and then they do. There are really a number of fun ways to read this book.

 

Here are some more Virtual Book Club activities: 

 

Bear Dream About Colors Printable Book - This printable was created to explore after reading the book Bear Snores On. Children at school or students at school will enjoy this book to color. There is a you color version and a bear is already colored version. Both are a great way for preschooler or kindergartners to learn about colors.

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Changing the Color of the Reindeer’s Nose Color Activity

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Changing the Color of the Reindeer's Nose Color Activity

Rudolph was a red nose reindeer, but what fun it would be to change the color of his nose.  Your children can create a reindeer. Then they can create a way to change the color of its nose. If you don’t want your children to craft a reindeer, you can use our printable one. Below you will find the reindeer and the color wheel printable set.  Your children could always to create their own reindeer on paper plates and use our color wheel.

Reindeer’s Nose Color Activity

Getting Ready

Changing the Color of the Reindeer's Nose Color Activity - Printable Reindeer with a Blue Nose

Downloading the Printables

You will need to download the Changing the Color of the Reindeer’s Nose set. It includes a printable reindeer and two color wheels. The whole set will need to be printed out in color.

Gathering Supplies

Changing the Color of the Reindeer's Nose Color Activity - Homemade Reindeer with a Blue Nose

You have a variety of ways that you can put this color activity together. Your children can create their own reindeer and use one of the printable color wheels. Another option is to have them use the printable reindeer and the printable color wheel. In either case, your children will need to create their own antlers.

Each Child Will Need the Following:

Large Paper Plate

Small Paper Plate

Brown Construction Paper

Black Construction Paper or Black Foam Sheet

White Foam Sheet

One Brass Fastener

Scissors

Glue Stick

Putting the Color Activity Together

Changing the Color of the Reindeer's Nose Color Activity - Homemade Reindeer with a Yellow Nose

The first thing your children are going to need to do is to cut out the reindeer printable or the pieces for their own reindeer. If they are creating their own reindeer, they will need to make the head, eyes, and antlers. They are are using the printable one they will just need to make the antlers.

Next, they will need glue the reindeer and the antler to the large paper plate.

Changing the Color of the Reindeer's Nose Color Activity - Homemade Reindeer with a Red Nose

Then they will need to cut out nose space.

The color wheel will need to be glued to the small paper plate and then cut out. (The color wheel with eight colors works best on a narrower nose hole.)

Finally, the color wheel will need to be attached to the reindeer plate with a brass fastener. It will not reach the end of the reindeer’s nose. This will make it easier to turn.

This activity was created to go along with the book Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. It is the Virtual Book Club book of the week. Here are some more activities based on the book.

Reindeer Letter Matching Game

Fingerprint Reindeer Ornament

Rudolph Pipe Cleaner Circuit (Christmas STEM)

Paper Shapes Reindeer Craft

 

Here are some more holiday themed activities your kids will love:

Jingle Bell Counting Activity

Make a Paper Bag Gingerbread House

Rudolph STEM Straw Rocket

 

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Printable Bingo Cards That Explore Colors with Parrots

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Printable Bingo Cards That Explore Colors with Parrots

It is day three of Pirate Printable Week! Today I have a set of printable bingo cards that explore colors. Each of the printable bingo cards for kids displays eight parrots. Each one features a single color. These would be a great part of a pirate unit or after reading a fun pirate themed book. (You will find a list of fun pirate books for kids a the end of this post.)

Printable Bingo Cards for Kids with Parrots

Printable Bingo Cards That Explore Colors with Parrots for Kids - Supplies

Before you get started you will need to download and print the Printable Bingo Cards that Explore Color with Parrots. The parrots and the skull in the free space are all colored clip art as well as the parrot color cards.You will need to print out the cards on a color printer.

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The only other supply you will need for the bingo game is something for your children to place on top of the color parrots. We used gems as our bingo markers.  It might be fun to use gold coins Beistle 100 Piece Gold Plastic Pirate Treasure Embossed Coins Western Theme Supplies Casino Party Favors, 1.5″ a bingo covers.

One Player Bingo

You can give a pile of the parrot color cards and a bingo card to your child. They can take one color card of the pile at a time. After they say the name of the color,  they can place on bingo marker on the parrot that is the same color on the card. When they have three markers in a row or column, they can say BINGO or ARRR!

Printable Bingo Cards That Explore Colors with Parrots for Kids - There are one player and multiple player cards.

Multiplayer Bingo

You will need to give each of your children one of the printable bingo cards and some bingo markers.  Then your children can take turns picking up a card from the stack and calling out the color of the parrot on the card. Anyone with that colored parrot will cover it with a bingo marker. When one of the children has three markers in a row or column, they can say BINGO or ARRR!

Pirate Themed Books for Kids

I love tying activities I create for kids to children’s books with a similar theme. Two of my favorite pirate books areHow I Became a Pirate and Pirate Nap: A Book of Colors. They both have fun illustrations and are great fun to read aloud.  I bet your children will love them.

Other Pirate Themed Activities

Long Vowel Sounds Worksheets

Five Little Pirates Puppet and Rhyme

R Controlled Vowel Printables


 

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5 Days of Printable Pirate Activities for Kids

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Once a month I work with 3 Dinosaurs and Royal Baloo to share collections of free themed printables for preschool and elementary ages children. This month we will be sharing printable pirate activities and worksheets. Your children will have fun exploring these collections of printables with pirates, parrots and treasure chests.

Each day I will post the printable each of us has put up for the day.If you don’t find what you are looking for on one day, don’t despair! Just come back the next day and see what we have created for you. By the end of the week, I am sure you will find several learning pages and printable pirate activities you will want your children to explore.

While you are waiting for the week to start, here are some printable pirate printable you can use today!

Printable Pirate Activities

Pirate Color By Math- Fractions, Addition, and Place Value

Pirate Themed Writing Paper

5 Little Pirates Finger Puppets and Rhyme

Jake and the Pirates Early Learning Printables

Pirate Themed Math Printables

5 Days of Printable Pirate Activities

Each day I will add the printables shared on 3 Dinosaurs, Royal Baloo and JDaniel4’s Mom.

Monday

Roll a Silly Pirate Sentence

Pirate Themed Array Printables

R Controlled Vowel Printable Activities

 

Tuesday

What Can a Pirate Sail? Easy Reader

Pirate Skip Counting Printable for Beginning Multiplication

Arrr You Reading to Work on Long Vowel Sounds

 

Wednesday

Place Value Task Cards

Printable Bingo Cards with Parrot Theme

Pirate Rounding Printable – Walk the Plank

 

Thursday

No-Prep Pirate Themed OI and AI Trace Find and Color
Subtraction Worksheets Used to Play Treasure Chest Match

 

Friday

Adding Pirate Coins Easy Reader Books: Single and Double Digit

Why Did Pirates Wear Eye Patches? Experiment

If you like these learning printable and activities, you will find more on my Early Learning board on Pinterest.

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Looking for Fall Color Leaves with a Viewer

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Fall Leaf Colors Viewer Printable

Your children will have fun looking for fall color leaves with this printable leaf viewer. It is a fun way to review or learn colors. Children can use the fall color leaf viewer both indoors and out. Let me share several ways they can work on color words with it.

Fall Color Leaves Viewer

Getting Your Viewer Ready

Before you get started, you will need to print out the Fall Color Leaf Viewers. There are two you can choose from. There is a large viewer that may need to be held with two hands. The second viewer is about the size of half a sheet of paper.

You will probably want to print them on card stock. It will make the viewer easier for your children to hold. Another alternative is to print them out on paper and glue them to a piece of cardboard. Once the glue is dry, you can cut out the center of the frame.

Looking  for Fall Color Leaves

Fall Leaf Colors Viewer - Children at home or students at school can used these viewers to look for fall color leaves on the ground, in bushes or in trees. This is a great way to work on colors.

Looking for Leaves Outside

Your children can take their viewers outside to look for leaves. You may want to ask them to look for one color at a time.

Fall Leaf Colors Viewer - Children at home or students at school can used these viewers to look for fall color leaves on the ground, in bushes or in trees.

Remind them that they may need to look up into the trees as well as on the ground for leaves the color you have asked them to look for.

Looking for Leaves Inside

If you don’t have fall colored leaves around your home or school for your children to look at, they can look for leaves inside.

Search a Rooms

You can hide fall color leaves around rooms in your house or around your classroom. They could be real leaves, construction paper leaves or even fake leaves.

Then you could ask your children to find leaves of a particular color.

Search a Bin

Fall Leaf Colors Viewer - Children at home or students at school can used these viewers to look for fall color leaves on the ground, in bushes or in trees. This is a great way to work on colors and explore leaves. You can even take leaves inside.

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Children can search through a bin of leaves to find leaves that are a particular color. They can hold their viewer with one hand while they search or place the viewer on the table and put leaves of a certain color in the frame.

This activity was created to go along with the bookRed Leaf, Yellow Leaf. It is the Virtual Book Club book of the week. Below you will find activities created by other blogs based on the book.

Leaf Measurement and Sorting Activity – Inspiration Laboratories
Autumn Leaves Crayon Rubbing – Mama Smiles
Foil Leaf Preschool Art – Preschool Powol Packets
Cinnamon spiced autumn leaf cookies – Rainy Day Mum
Handprint Fall Leaf craft- Messy Little Monster
Nature Color Hunt – My Bored Toddler 
Pre-Writing Activity Leaf Theme – The OT Toolbox
Collaborate Leaf Tree with Cutting Practice from My Storytime Corner
Fall Leaf Movement Activity with Sidewalk Chalk – The Educators’ Spin On It

Fall Leaf Colors Viewer - Children at home or students at school can used these viewers to look for fall color leaves on the ground, in bushes or in trees. This is a great way to work on colors and explore leaves. You can even take leaves inside to explore them in a science center.

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Printable Bingo Cards – Bunny Color Bingo

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After creating a set of color themed bunnies for our Knuffle Bunny Color Exploration game, I decided you might enjoy having a set of printable bingo cards that feature the same bunnies.

This set would be fun to take out to review or explore colors in the spring around Easter time.

Printable Bingo Cards and Supply List

 

Bunny Color Bingo Printable Bingo Cards in Counters

This set of printable bingo cards contains three bingo cards. Each displays the same colors of rabbits. The colors name haven’t been typed under the rabbits. I wanted to give you the opportunity to select words you want to use for each color and the language you want to say the color words in.

Supply List

Printable Bingo Cards - Bunny Color Bingo with markers

Playing Bingo

Your children can play bingo with these cards in a variety of ways.

Versions of Bingo You Could Play

  • You could simply call out a color and have your children cover that color of bunny on the card until they have covered all the bunnies on the card
  • You could call out a color and have your children continue covering bunnies until they have three in a row.
  • You could play “Four Corners. Your children could only cover the bunnies that are in the corners when you call out the colors.
  • You could have your children use chopsticks to place a counter on each bunny when you call its color.
  • You could read a book about bunnies and colors like Quiet Bunny’s Many Colors or White Rabbit’s Colors before playing bingo. They are both wonderful.
  • You can have your children cover each bunny with a counter that matches that bunny’s color.



Bunny Color Bingo Printable Bingo Cards - I have come up with a number ways for your children to use this fun set of cards with your kids. I bet you can come up with even more games to play.

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Preschool Color Activites – Roll and Cover Rainbow

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Building a rainbow is a lot of fun when you build it on a roll and cover rainbow. Your children will have a blast playing either of these preschool color activities.

Preschool Color Activities

I love to read my children a book before starting an activity. Since this activity has a rainbow theme, I would read a book likeA Rainbow of My Own.

A Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman

Next, you will need to print out one or both of the rainbow roll and cover printables. There is one that has more circles to cover than the other. Younger children might find more success working with the preschool color activities sheet that has fewer spaces to cover.

Preschool Color Activities - Roll and Cover Rainbow - This is the simple version of the roll and over rainbow

Supplies

Playing Preschool Color ActivitiesPreschool Color Activities - Roll and Cover Rainbow

Children will roll the color cube. Then they will pick up a pom pom that is that color and place it somewhere on that band of color on the rainbow.

Some children will want to start on the left and fill the circles in over the top and down the right. Others will randomly want to place them on the rainbow. Both ways are just fine.

Preschool Color Activities - Roll and Cover Rainbow - Moving Pom Poms

Here are some more preschool color activities:

Color Games for Kids with a Bear Theme

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Color Games for Kids with a Bear Theme

There are so many wonderful children books about Bears. You have been given activities that explore the books Bear Give Thanks,  Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, and Paddington in the past. Today’s color games for kids activities were created to go along with the Virtual Book Club book of the week Time for Sleep. You, of course, can play with your children after reading the book or anytime you like.

Color Games for Kids

Color Games for Kids with a Bear Theme - Bingo Card

While the Color Bear Bingo printable can be used to play bingo with our kids are several other color games for kids I think you can play with it. If you would prefer that your children color the bears then, here is a printable  Bear Bingo With Bears Kids Can Color worksheet.

Basic Bingo

Color Games for Kids with a Bear Theme - Bingo Card

You cut out the color bears that appear on a page without the word bingo at the top. Then have your children pick out a bingo card they would like to use. You will hold up one color bear at a time and tell your children what color it is. Next, your children will cover that color of a bear on their card. When they have covered a row or column on their card they can call out “Bingo”.

Match the Bear Square to the Bear on the Card

In the bingo set, you will find a page that features just the color bears. You can have your children match each of the colors bears to its matching bear of the bingo card. If you like you can have the say “Bingo” when they have covered their card.

Concentration Bingo

You will turn all the color bear cards face down and select one bingo card to work with.  Then you will have your children turn one card over at a time. If they can tell you what the color is, they can place that color bear card on its match on their bingo card.

If you like these color games for kids with a bear theme, I think you will these bear activities too.Color Games for Kids with a Bear Theme - Pinterest Picture

If you like these color games for kids with a bear theme, I think you will these bear activities too.

BEAR THEMED LITERACY ACTIVITIES

LEARNING MATH WITH BEAR-THEMED ACTIVITIES

SENSORY BEAR ACTIVITIES

BEAR THEMED CRAFTS

LEARNING COLORS WITH BEAR-THEMED ACTIVITIES

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Songs About Fall and Color Activity with Leaves

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Songs About Fall and a Leaf Color Activity

This week I am sharing with you some activities with leaves. On Monday I shared with you an alphabet muffin tin game. Today I am sharing with you a shape and color game. Tomorrow I have a number-themed leaf game. The week will end with a sensory activity that uses paper leaves and a yarn tree.

Songs About Fall Leaves

Falling Leaves (sung to the tune of London Bridge)

All the leaves are falling down

Falling down, falling down.

All the leaves are falling down,

It is fall time.

They are yellow, red and brown,

Red and brown, red and brown.

They are yellow, red and brown.

It is fall time.

Take the leaves and crunch them up,

Crunch them up, crunch them up.

Take the leaves and crunch them up.

It is fall time.

 

The Dancing Leaves (sung to the tune of Clementine)

The dancing leaves

Are falling down

Orange, yellow, red and brown

They are dancing, they are dancing

They are dancing on the ground.

With their crispy and crunchy sound

They are the children’s delight.

Dancing, dancing all around

Bringing joy to everyone.

Activities Based on the Fall Songs About Leaves

Songs About Fall and a Leaf Color Activity

Supplies

You will need to print out the Leaf Shape Work Mats to do the activities. There is on a mat for each color shared in the songs.

Then you will need to cut on triangles, squares, circles, and rectangles out of paper or fabric. You will need to cut each of the shapes out of red, orange, yellow, and brown.

You could use one of the following to make your shapes:

  • felt
  • colored cardboard
  • card stock
  • color foam

Songs About Fall and a Leaf Color Activity

Activity

Your children will need to place the right shape into its matching area of a leaf. You can make it harder by having them match the right color and shape to each mat.

Songs About Fall and a Leaf Color Activity

This is part of an early learning activities series inspired by I Can Teach My Child called Toddler Time. Although my son is no longer a toddler, I will be joining I Can Teach My Child to share activities you can do with your young children this month. I will include ways of using activities with older children in most of my posts.

Toddler Time Activities

 

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