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Colors theme for toddlers: a week of activities

A colors theme lesson plan for toddlers: what a day looks like, then the week's circle time (two or three minutes, on laps), books, craft, song, snack, letter and outside time, each with what changes at this age.

Plan this week for toddlersThe whole colors week

A day of the colors theme with toddlers

  1. Arrival and free play on the floor.
  2. Sing “Lavender's Blue” with actions; repeat it while you change and feed.
  3. Hold and pass something real for the week (red), and say its name.
  4. Snack: a toddler-safe version of rainbow fruit cup (check the recipe's lines for under-4s).
  5. Outside: a short walk looking for blue.
  6. Read The Red Hat on laps, pointing and naming.
  7. Nap, then the song once more at pick-up.

Colors circle time

  1. Hello song: sing hello to each child by name.
  2. Look out of the window together: sun, rain or clouds?
  3. Show the theme: hold up something real and name it.
  4. Sing: Lavender's Blue.
  5. Read: The Red Hat (level 3).

Infants and toddlers: two or three minutes, on laps.

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.

Infants and toddlers: one book, read every day; point and name.

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.

Infants and toddlers: let them touch and hold the materials while you make it; nothing small enough to swallow.

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).

Infants and toddlers: skip the trace page; show the picture page 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