Preschool Learning Numbers

She3 years old and is learning how to identify her numbers, count, and number sequence.

Numbers Book List

One Foot Two Feet by Felicia Zekauskas was one of my favorite books. It gives the singular and plural of some of the more challenging English words for young children to understand. Goose-Geese, Foot-Feet, etc…

Numbers Recourses


Number 1


Number 2


Number 3


Number 4


Number 5


Number 6


Number 7


Number 8


Number 9


Number 10

10 Apples up on Top

First we read 10 Apples up on Top by Dr. Seuss. Print out the free 10 Apple Stack from Teachers Pay Teachers. Then Storm glued a picture of herself to the bottom of the paper and cut out the apples and glued them in numerical order on top of her head.

Ten Little Rubber Ducks

First we read Ten Little Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle. Print out the free 10 Ducklings Number Sequencing from Teachers Pay Teachers. Then Storm painted a paper with blue watercolor. She cut out the ducklings and glued them in numerical order following the momma duck.


Number 12


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“The Wheels on the Bus” Tot School

“The Wheels on the Bus”

Color: Yellow

Shape: Circle

Number: 4

Letter: B

Verse 1: wheels go round

  • Look at the wheels on our van.
  • Show the wheels on the toy bus and push it on the floor to see them go round and round.
  • Roll a ball to go round and round.

Verse 2: people go up and down

  • Jump up and down.
  • Hold a baby doll up then down.

Verse 3: horn goes toot

  • Sit in the van and honk the horn.
  • Show child some other types of horns.

Verse 4: money goes clink

  • Drop coins in a jar or piggy bank to go clink.

Verse 5: wipers go swish

  • Wash the van window.
  • Turn on the window wipers in the van.

Book List:

  • Wheels on the Bus by Sylvie Kantorovitz Wickstrom
  • Wheels on the Bus by Jerry Smath
  • The wheels on the Bus by Dana Regan
  • Big Gus The Double Decker by Ian Pillinger
  • The Bus Driver by Todd H. Doodler
  • Red Truck, Yellow Bus: A Book of Colors by Rookie Toddler
  • I’m Feeling School Bus Yellow by Tina Gallo

Dramatic Play:

  • Play with Sesame Street bus.  “Doors go Open and Shut”
  • Melissa & Doug Transportation

  • Fisher Price Little People School Bus

Music/ Poems:

  • “Wheels on the Bus” youtube    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOiYN7iU-W8&t=572s

Foods:

  • Graham Cracker
  • Cinnamon Toast Crunch
  • Cheese
  • Mini Oreo

Fine Motor:

  • Paint a Shape Bus

Trips:

  • Take a bus ride.

Goodnight Moon Tot School

One of the favorite books for all of my toddlers over the years has been “Goodnight Moon”. The simple rhyming and repetition is calming for my little ones.

Abeka Curriculum

I was able to incorporate several of our Abeka nursery lessons into this unit as well. Following are some of the specific books with links that are used in this Farm Tot School Unit:

Goodnight Moon Sensory Tub

Color: Red

Shape: Crescent

Number: 2

Letter: M (moon)

“In the great green room”

“There was a telephone”

“And a red balloon”

S reviewed his colors by coloring the balloons on page 2 of this download the color that I told him.  Then I cut it out and folded it into a book.

“And a picture of—”

“The cow jumping over the moon”

Hey Diddle Diddle

I got this printable from Homeschool Creations.  I added a craft stick to them so I could make the cow jump over the moon.

“And there were three little bears sitting on chairs”

Three Little Bears

I cut out the bears and chairs for S to sort them by size. Then she wanted them to have a “bowl of mush” too.

“And two little kittens”

I printed the 2 Little Kittens printable for her to color.

“And a pair of mittens”

“And a little toy house”

“And a young mouse”

Abeka Nursery Curriculum

“And a comb and a brush”

“and a bowl full of mush”

“And a quiet old lady who was whispering “hush””

“Goodnight room”

Goodnight Room Coloring Page

I printed the Goodnight Room Coloring Page for S.

“Goodnight moon”

Paint a yellow crescent moon.

“Goodnight cow jumping over the moon”

“Goodnight light”

“And the red balloon”

Paint a red balloon.
Red pom pom balloons in star ice tray.

“Goodnight bears”

“Goodnight chairs”

Sit teddy bear in the chair.

“Goodnight kittens”

I found this 3 Little Kittens for her to match mittens with the kittens.

“And goodnight mittens”

“Goodnight clocks”

Here is the Hickory, Dickory, Dock coloring page.

“And goodnight socks”

“Goodnight little house”

“And goodnight mouse”

“Goodnight comb And goodnight brush”

“Goodnight nobody”

Abeka Nursery Curriculum

“Goodnight mush”

Oatmeal for breakfast.

“And goodnight to the old lady whispering “hush””

Abeka Nursery Curriculum

“Goodnight stars”

“Goodnight air”

Draw moon and stars with a white crayon and paint water colors over it.

“Goodnight noises everywhere.”

Abeka Nursery Curriculum

Chewy Sugar Cookies

Cookie Ingredients:

  • 1 Cup Butter
  • 1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 1/4 cup flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1//2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Cookie Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Spray cookie sheet with nonstick spray
  3. Cream together the butter and sugar.
  4. Add the egg and mix well.
  5. Stir in the flour, baking powder, salt and vanilla.
  6. Form dough into a large ball and place in a bowl to refrigerate for a hour.
  7. Roll the cookie dough onto a floured surface about 1/4 inch thick.
  8. Cut out the dough with cookie cutters and place them on the pan.
  9. Bake for 8-10 minutes.
  10. Cool and add the buttercream.

Buttercream Ingredients:

  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 cup Crisco
  • 4 cups powdered sugar (2 lbs)
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 1 tablespoon milk (if thick)

Buttercream Directions:

  1. Cream together the butter and Crisco with a mixer.
  2. Slowly add in 1 cup of powdered sugar at a time.
  3. Add the vanilla, if it seems too thick you can add a bit of milk.
  4. Color with yellow food coloring.

Farm Tot School

Color: Red

Shape: Square

Number: 10

Letter: F


Day 1:  Farm

Read:  

Songs: 

Snacks:

  • Haystacks  (10 oz.Chow Mein noodles mixed with melted 1 cup chocolate and 1 cups butterscotch chips)

Activities:

  • Wooden Farm
  • Farm Puzzles
  • Stickers
  • Beanie Baby Farm Animals
  • Farm Sensory Tub
  • Farm Animal Movement Cards
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm
  • Barn Number Match
  • Paper Plate Tractor
  • Sorting Farm Foods

Day 2: Sheep

Read:  

Songs:  

Activities:

  • Paper Plate Sheep
  • Do-A-Dot Sheep
  • Heard the Sheep
Do-A-Dot Sheep

Day 3:  Cow

Read:  

Songs: 

Animal Alphabet Friends

Snacks:

  • Chocolate Milk

Activities:

  • Paper Plate Cow
  • Do-A-Dot Cow
  • Milk the Cow

Day 4: Horse

Read:  

Songs: 

Animal Alphabet Friends

Snacks:

  • Apples and carrots

Activities:

  • Paper Plate Horse
  • Do-A-Dot Horse
  • Rocking Horse (Stick Horse)

Day 5:  Pig

Read:  

Songs: 

  • This Little Piggy

Snacks:

  • Pigs in a Blanket (Wrap hot dots in crescent rolls  375 degrees for 10 min)

Activities:

  • Paper Plate Pig
  • Catch the Piggies
  • Numbers & Colors Pig E Bank

Day 6:  Donkey

Read:  

Songs:  

Animal Alphabet Friends

Activities:

  • Paper Plate Donkey
  • Pin the Tail on the Donkey

Day 7: Goat

Read:  

Songs:  

  • Gomer Goat YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cItWWyC9dc&list=PLtcVDUfj-tZytwkA64XHNSi0PwA0TMrJM&index=7
Animal Alphabet Friends

Activities:

  • Paper Plate Goat.
  • Do-a-Dot Goat
  • Goat Colors and Shapes

Day 8:  Rooster

Read:  

Songs:  

Animal Alphabet Friends

Activities:

  • Paper Plate Rooster
  • Feather Rooster

Day 9: Chicken

Read:  

Songs:

  • Five Little Chickens

Snacks:

  • Hard Boiled Eggs

Activities:

  • Paper Plate Chick
  • Do-A-Dot Chicken
  • Feed the Chickens
  • Counting Chicks
  • Catch the Fox

Day 10: Mouse

Read:  

Songs: 

Snacks:

  • Cheese

Activities:

  • Paper Plate Mouse
  • Mouse in the Color House
  • Mouse Colors and Shapes

Day 11: Cat

Read:  

Songs: 

Activities:

  • Paper Plate Cat
  • Do-A-Dot Cat
  • Cat Colors and Shapes

Day 12:  Dog

Read:  

Songs: 

Snacks:

  • Puppy Chow

Activities:

  • Paper Plate Dog
  • Do-A-Dot Dog
  • Doggy Doggy Where’s My Bone?

I ordered a couple toddler age books from Abeka.com. Following are some of the specific books with links that are used in this Farm Tot School Unit:


Grant’s Farm


Baby (High Contrast) Farm Book List:

  • Farm by James Brown
  • Black & White Farm by Charles Reasoner
  • Hello, Farm by Cani Chen

Toddler (Live Animal) Farm Board Book List:

  • Busy Doggies by John Schindel & Beverly Sparks
  • Busy Barnyard by John Schindel & Steven Holt
  • Busy Horsies by John Schindel & Casi Lark
  • Pocket Piggies Opposites! By Richard Austin
  • Farm Animals by National Geographic
  • Sleepy Cat by David P. Hall

Toddler (Sing Song) Farm Board Book List:

  • Five Little Ducks by Little Scholastic
  • The Chicks in the Barn by Aly Fronis
  • Old Macdonald had a Farm by Pam Adams
  • Moo, Baa, La La La! By Sandra Boynton
  • Skip to My Lou by Nadine Bernard Westcott
  • Farmyard Rhymes by Clare Beaton
  • Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boynton

Toddler (Lift-a-Flap) Farm Board Book List:

  • Noisy Farm by Covent Garden Books
  • Moo by Matthew Van Fleet
  • Pop-Up Peekaboo! Farm by Dawn Sirett & Sarah Davis
  • Farm! By Lori Froeb

Toddler (Touch-and-Feel) Farm Board Book List:

  • Baby Touch and Feel Farm Animals by Dawn Sirett
  • Touch and Feel Farm by Scholastic
  • Baby Touch and Feel Tractor by Dawn Sirett & Charlie Gardner
  • Farm by Phillips
  • Baby Einstein Touch and Feel Farm Animals by Julie Aigner-Clark
  • Touch and Feel Farm by DK Publishing
  • Touch and Feel Tractor by John Deere
  • Touch & Feel Farm by Dwell Studio
  • Fuzzy Farm by Little People
  • Night Night Farm by Amy Parker
  • F is for Farm by Aimee Chapman
  • Good Night Farm by Patricia Hegarty
  • On the Farm by Little Bee Books

Toddler (Animal Sounds) Farm Board Book List:

  • Clifford’s Animal Sounds by Normal Bridwell
  • My Farm Friends by Wendell Minor
  • Farm Friends 101 Dalmatians by Disney
  • Find the Piglet by Stephen Cartwright
  • Funny Farm by Grosset & Dunlap
  • Baby Animal Farn by Karen Blair
  • On the Farm by Kate Riggs
  • Moo, Moo, Peekaboo! By Jane Dyer
  • Farm Babies by Emily Bolam
  • Farm Friends Little People by Fisher-Price
  • Farm Animals by Charles Reasoner

Preschool (Favorites) Farm Book List:

  • The Donkey’s Christmas Song by Nancy Tafuri
  • Going to Sleep on the Farm by Wendy Cheyette Lewison
  • Little Red Hen by Beverly Capps Burgess
  • Farm Lullaby by Karen Jameson

Preschool (Lift-a-Flap) Farm Book List:

  • The Berenstain Bears Visit the Farm by Mike Berenstain
  • Peek-a-Moo! By Marie Torres Cimarustk
  • PeekABoo Farm by Jane Dyer

Preschool (Colors) Farm Book List:

  • One Sheep, Blue Sheep by Thom Wiley
  • Moo Moo, Brown Cow by Jakki Wood
  • Moo, Moo. Brown Cow Have You Any Milk? By Phillis Gershator

Preschool (Numbers) Farm Book List:

  • Tiny Puppies by V.C. Graham
  • My First Counting Book by Lilian Moore
  • Ten Sleepy Sheep by Phyllis Root
  • Barn Cat by Carol P. Saul
  • Pocket Piggies Numbers! By Richard Austin
  • Big Fat Hen by Keith Baker

Preschool (Alphabet) Farm Book List:

  • Usborne Farmyard Tales Alphabet Book by Heather Amery & Stephen Cartwright
  • John Deere Farm ABC by John Deere
  • Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack by Doreen Cornin & Betsy Lewin
  • G is for Goat by Patricia Polacco

Preschool (Sing Song) Farm Book List:

  • Barnyard Boogie by Jim and Janet Post
  • Mickey and Friends Old MacDonald Has a Farm by Margaret Snyder
  • Pete the Cat Old MacDonald Had a Farm by James Dean
  • Old MacDonald Drives a Tractor by Don Carter
  • When Cows Come Home by David L. Harrison

Preschool (Story) Farm Book List:

  • The Farm Book by Jan Pfloog
  • Big Red Barn by Margret Wise Brown
  • Tractor Power! By Catherine Nichols
  • Duck on a Bike by David Shannon
  • The Puppy Book by Jan Pfloog
  • Baby Farm Animals by Garth Williams
  • Where Do You Sleep Little One? By Patricia Hopper
  • Good Morning, Farm by Lori Reiser
  • Let’s go to the Farm! By Carly Hart & Lauren Tobia
  • Piglet and Granny by Margaret Wild

Insect Tot School

Color: Black

Shape: Oval

Number: 6

Letter: I for Insect


Day 1:  Insects                         

Read:  

Music: Bug Instruments

Experiment: Bug Hunt

Play:  Bug Sensory Tub

Day 2:  Ants                            

Read:  

Music: sing the ants go marching

Experiment: Ant Farm

Play:  Counting Ants

Day 3:  Ladybugs                         

Read:  

Music: sing Ladybug Ladybug fly away home

Experiment: Ladybug Habitat

Day 4:  Bees                      

Read:  

Music:

Day 5:  Inchworms                       

Read:  

Play:  Make Playdough Inchworms

Music: Itchy Inchworm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coW1OJnbut8&list=PLtcVDUfj-tZytwkA64XHNSi0PwA0TMrJM&index=9

Day 6:  Butterflies                        

Read:  

Music: sing bullfrogs and butterflies

Experiment: Raise Butterflies

Play: Butterfly Life Cycle Toys

Butterfly Sticker


I ordered a couple toddler age books from Abeka.com. Following are some of the specific books with links that are used in this Insect Tot School Unit:

Movie List:

Book List:

Music/ Poems:

Gross Motor: 

  • Move like an insect cards

Fine Motor:

Trips:

  • Butterfly House

Creation Tot School

Color: Blue

Shape: Circle

Number: 7

Letter: W for World


Day 1: God Created the Light and Dark

  • Snack: Raisins and Popcorn
  • Turn on and off Lights, 
  • Light and play with flashlights.

Day 2: God Created the Sky and Sea

  • Snack: Blue Jello and Marshmallows
  • Point to Sky and look at Clouds, 
  • Water and play with water toys.

Day 3: God Created the Dry Land and Plants

  • Snack: Chocolate Pudding with crushed cookies and Broccoli
  • Look at Trees and Plants and Dirt, 
  • Play in the dirt and plant some flowers. 
  • Play with wooden cutting fruits and vegies.

Day 4: God Created the Sun, Moon, and Stars

  • Snack: Cheese cut into starts
  • Look at Moon and Stars, 
  • Day or night?, (ask the child when they do things like go to bed, eat lunch, dream, play outside, etc…)
  • Playdough Sun, Moon, Stars
  • read “Bathwater’s Hot” by Shirley Hughes

Day 5: God Created the Birds and Fish

  • Snack: Goldfish
  • Talk about fish and birds,
  • Visit a pet store,
  • Feed the Ducks.

Day 6: God Created the Animals and People

  • Snack: Animal Crackers,
  • Visit a zoo,
  • Play with dog and cats.

Day 7: God Rested (God Made Me)

  • “Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes”: Point to Body Parts, draw body with sidewalk chalk.
  • Relax with Yoga.

Gross Motor:

  • Run and Play Outside
  • Bubbles Circles
  • Creation Hop Scotch

Fine Motor:

  • He’s Got the Whole World In His Hands Craft
  • Play Dough (Blue, Circle, 7, W)
  • Abeka

I ordered a couple toddler age books from Abeka.com. Following are some of the specific books with links that are used in this Creation Tot School Unit:

Book List:

Movies

Music/ Poems:

Circus Tot School

Color: Red

Shape: Circle (Balloons, Balls, Hoops)

Number: 3

Letter: C for Clown

Movie:

Gross Motor:

  • Circus Yoga
  • Riding Lion Toy
  • Flaming Hoops (Hoola Hoop & Crape Paper)

Fine Motor:

  • Balloon Clown Coloring Sheet (Red, circles)
  • Abeka

I ordered a couple toddler age books from Abeka.com. Following are some of the specific books with links that are used in this Circus Tot School Unit:

Dramatic Play:

  • Streamers and Balloons (Red)

Book List:

Music/ Poems:

Foods:

  • Popcorn
  • Sno-Cone
  • Animal Crackers
  • Corn Dogs
  • Swirly Suckers

Tot Tubs:

  • Play Dough Play Mat (make balls circles for seal’s nose)
  • Bubbles (Circles)
  • Sidewalk Chalk
  • Popcorn Sensory Tub (popcorn kernels, red measuring spoons, yellow & white pom poms, Popcorn Cups)

12 – 18 Month Tot School

Tot Tub

I place beans, pom poms, tablespoons, and measuring cups in a tub. She loves scooping, dumping, and pouring from cup to cup and back and forth.

Pom Pom Play

I placed pom poms in a wisk so that she could pull them out and place them into an empty tissue box.

Then we taped an empty paper towel tube to the wall so that she could drop the pom poms down the tube.

Pipe Cleaner Play

I placed pipe cleaners in a strainer. She could pull them out one by one.

Box Play

The kids colored a box and my son tied his rope to one end of the box. Then he gave Baby Girl a ride though the house.

Book List (12-18 months)

Flap Books

Rainbow Colors Peekaboo! by DK Publishing (Touch and Feel Book)

Noisy Farm

Kids Favorites

Go, Dog. Go! by P.D. Eastman

Mr. Brown can Moo! Can You? by Dr. Seuss

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin Jr & Eric Carle

Hokey Pokey Elmo by Abigail Tabby

Sandra Boynton Board Books

Barnyard Dance! by Sandra Boynton

Hey! Wake Up! by Sandra Boynton

Blue Hat, Green Hat by Sandra Boynton

Belly Button Book! by Sandra Boynton

Moo, Baa, La La La! by Sandra Boynton

Rainbows Day 5 -What Makes a Rainbow

Today we talked about the science behind rainbows.  We learned that all a rainbow needs is light and water so we went outside to try to create some or our own rainbows.  Today we included more rainbow crafts, science, math, literature, and snacks.

What Makes a Rainbow

Discuss: A rainbow needs light and water for us to see it. Show a simple demonstration of how we bend light by using a straight straw and a clear cup that is half filled with water. Even though the straw is straight, it looks bent when we put it into the water. That is just the light bending. When we bend light, it is called “refraction.” Let’s bend some more light.  Show the kids a prism, go outside and used a prism to create a rainbow on a piece of white paper. Why do we see rainbows when it rains? The raindrops are like a tiny prism, bending the light that comes from the sun. So we need both sun (light) and rain (prism) at the same time to make a rainbow in the sky. Let’s do a simple demonstration to see how the sun and water make a rainbow.  We’ll use the hose in the backyard to make a rainbow.  Make sure the sun is behind us and the water is in front of us.

We did experiments from the “Magic School Bus The Mysteries of Rainbow Science Club Kit”.

ReadWhat Is a Rainbow? By Chris Arvetis and Carole Palmer

Comprehension Questions:

  1. What makes a rainbow? Light and water

Fruit Loop Bagel Breakfast

Materials:

  • Plain Bagels
  • Cream Cheese
  • Fruit Loops

Directions:

  1. spread cream cheese on the bagel
  2. place the fruit loops in the shape of a rainbow

Tissue Paper Rainbow

Materials:

  • colors of tissue papers
  • pencil with a full eraser
  • school glue
  • white cardstock with an outline of a rainbow on it
  • markers or crayons

Directions:

  1. Have the children use the markers or crayons to color in the colors they want their rainbow to look like.
  2. Cut the tissue into 1 inch squares.
  3. Pour some school glue onto a tray or plate.
  4. Have your child take one piece of tissue, and show them how to center (approximately!) the eraser onto it.
  5. Wrap the tissue up around the pencil. 
  6. Dip into the glue.
  7. Hold onto the edges of the tissue, and press the glue tipped end onto the paper, matching up the color from your picture. Slide the pencil out.

Rainbow in a Box

Discuss: Like water drops in falling rain, the CD separates white light into all the colors that make up the rainbow. The colors you see reflecting from a CD are interference colors, like the shifting colors you see on a soap bubble or an oil spill. You can think of light as as being made up of waves-like the waves in the ocean. When light waves reflect off the ridges on your CD, they overlap and interfere with each other. Sometimes the waves add together to make a rainbow.

Materials:

  • CD
  • Box
  • Flashlight

Directions:

  1. Shine a flashlight on an old CD in the bottom of a box turned on it’s side.
  2. Turn off the lights, and move the flashlight across the CD to make the rainbows dance.

Rainbow Addition

Materials:

  • Paper
  • Pen
  • Construction paper

Directions:

  1. Draw an outline of a rainbow on the paper.
  2. Write addition combinations on the blank rainbow. (make sure they are spaced out quite a bit)
  3. Cut the construction paper into rectangles small enough to cover one of the combinations.
  4. Write the answers to the top row of combinations on the red rectangles.
  5. Next row answers are on the orange rectangles. And so on.
  6. Child will look at the combination and find the answer in the colored pieces and place it over the combination. At the end there should be a completed colored rainbow.

I modified the one for A. to counting dots on the white paper and finding the correct number on the colored pieces.

And I modified the tots to matching colors.

Eat the Rainbow

Discuss:

Talk about what different colors of the rainbow that we can eat to be healthy. Fruits and Vegies Then make a chart with the kids that have all of the foods that they suggested written on it.

Materials:

  • Posterboard
  • Markers of crayons
  • Strawberries
  • Cantaloupe
  • Banana
  • Pear
  • Blueberries
  • Red Grapes
  • Kabob Skewers

Directions:

  1. Make a rainbow on a plate or platter with different fruits.

RED – Strawberries
ORANGE – Cantaloupe
YELLOW – Banana
GREEN – Pear
BLUE – Blueberries
VIOLET – Red grapes

    2. Let the children use the kabob sticks to make their rainbow fruit kabobs.

ReadI can eat a Rainbow by Annabel Karmel while they eat

Make a REAL Rainbow

ReadA Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman

Discuss: Rainbows appear wherever sunlight falls on water or glass.  We used the Rainbow Diagram here to help us with this experiment.

Materials:

  • Glass of water
  • Dark kitchen
  • White Paper
  • Masking Tape
  • Flashlight

Directions:

  1. Fill a glass of water (almost to the top) and place it at the very edge of the counter in a VERY dark kitchen or bathroom.
  2. Place a sheet of plain white paper on the floor a few inches away from the counter.
  3. Put two pieces of masking tape over the front of a flashlight so that the light comes out of a slit about 1/8 inch wide.
  4. Shine this light across and down into the water as shown in the figure. When a narrow beam of light is passed through a glass of water, a spectrum can be seen on a white sheet of paper.
  5. Can you see a small rainbow on the white paper? If not, move the flashlight around a little until you achieve the best results.

Rainbow Symmetry

Discuss: A line of symmetry divides a shape into two identical parts. In some cases, as with a rainbow, you’ll find one line of symmetry down the middle. In other cases, there is more than one, like with eight sections of an orange. So if we paint a rainbow on one side of the paper and then fold it in half it should appear the same on both sides forming a symmetrical rainbow.

Materials:

  • Cardstock folded in half
  • Paint for all the colors of the rainbow

Directions:

  1. Fold the paper in half and open.
  2. Have the kids how to paint half a rainbow on one half of the paper in the right order. 
  3. Fold the paper over and press gently.
  4. Open again to see your rainbow print. 
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Rainbow Celebration Cake

Cake Materials:

  • White cake (2 boxes)
  • 9 in. cake pan
  • Red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple GEL food coloring.

Cake Directions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 350F degrees. Spray 9” cake pans. Make the 2 cakes according to the directions.
  2. Divide the batter into 6 bowls (about 1 1/2 cups each.
  3. Then whisk 2 drops of the appropriate food color into each bowl. Pour into the pans and bake for 12 minutes each.
  4. When you remove them from the oven, let them rest on the cooling rack, in the pan, for ten minutes. Then flip, cover, and stash them in the fridge to cool quickly.

Frosting Materials:

  • 2 Cups shortening
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • ½ cup water
  • 2 lbs. Powdered sugar

Frosting Directions:

  1. In large bowl, cream shortening with electric mixer. Add vanilla. Gradually add sugar, one cup at a time, beating well on medium speed. Scrape sides and bottom of bowl often. When all sugar has been mixed in, icing will appear dry. Add water and beat at medium speed until light and fluffy. Keep bowl covered with a damp cloth until ready to use.
  2. This icing can be stored 2 weeks. rewhip before using.
IMG_0680I added sugar sprinkles in the shape of a rainbow to it too.

More rainbow fun that we had this week: