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Colors theme for 2 year olds: a week of activities

A colors theme lesson plan for 2 year olds: what a day looks like, then the week's circle time (about five minutes, standing up for the song), books, craft, song, snack, letter and outside time, each with what changes at this age.

Plan this week for 2 year oldsThe whole colors week

A day of the colors theme with 2 year olds

  1. Arrival, hands washed, free play.
  2. Circle (about five minutes): hello song, then “What is your favorite color, and where do you see it?” and sing “lavender's blue”.
  3. Craft with a grown-up pouring and cutting: color sorting mat.
  4. Snack: Rainbow Fruit Cup.
  5. Outside: color hunt.
  6. Read The Red Hat, the same book again tomorrow.
  7. Rest, then color the letter C picture page.

Colors circle time

  1. Good morning song, then say each name together.
  2. Calendar: the day, the date and the weather.
  3. Ask: “What is your favorite color, and where do you see it?”
  4. Sing: Lavender's Blue.
  5. Read: The Red Hat (level 3).

Twos: about five minutes; stand up for the song.

Colors theme books

  • The Red Hat (level 3, free on peabody.kids): A red hat and the colors around it.
  • The Red Bus (level 1, free on peabody.kids): A red bus picking up animals, for color and counting.
  • Six Cats, Six Hats (level 1, free on peabody.kids): Hats to sort and count.
  • Red, Red, Red (read aloud, level 4): A pattern book all about one color.

Colors craft: Color sorting mat

You need (4): white card, crayons, colored paper scraps, glue stick.

  1. Draw four circles: red, blue, yellow, green.
  2. Sort the paper scraps into the right circle.
  3. Glue them down and name each color.

With a grown-up. No heat, nothing hot.

Twos: a grown-up pours the paint and holds the glue.

Colors song: Lavender's Blue

The words

Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green; When I am king, dilly dilly, you shall be queen.

Traditional; public domain. From Top 52 nursery rhymes with lyrics.

Colors snack

Rainbow Fruit Cup from the Peabody Kitchen: picture steps, allergy swaps and safety lines on the recipe.

Letter C activities

CcC is for color. Print the two pages (a trace page and a color page).

Twos: the picture page only; color it and say the word.

Outside activity: Color hunt

Call a color; children run and touch something that color.

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Checked 2026-10-30