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Color Mixing theme for 3 and 4 year olds: a week of activities

A color mixing theme lesson plan for 3 and 4 year olds: what a day looks like, then the week's circle time (ten to fifteen minutes, with a child holding the book), books, craft, song, snack, letter and outside time, each with what changes at this age.

Plan this week for 3 and 4 year oldsThe whole color mixing week

A day of the color mixing theme with 3 and 4 year olds

  1. Arrival, sign-in, and a job from the helper chart.
  2. Circle (ten to fifteen minutes): calendar, “What happens when blue and yellow mix?”, sing “little boy blue”, then The Red Hat.
  3. Centers, with the craft at one table: bag mixing.
  4. Letter C: trace it once, then hunt for C around the room.
  5. Snack: Rainbow Fruit Cup, with children pouring and counting.
  6. Outside: color water.
  7. Rest, then a longer read-aloud: Red, Red, Red.

Color Mixing circle time

  1. Good morning song, then say each name together.
  2. Calendar: the day, the date and the weather.
  3. Ask: “What happens when blue and yellow mix?”
  4. Sing: Little Boy Blue.
  5. Read: The Red Hat (level 3).

Threes and fours: ten to fifteen minutes; let a child hold the book.

Color Mixing theme books

  • The Red Hat (level 3, free on peabody.kids): A red hat and the colors around it.
  • The Black Cat (level 2, free on peabody.kids): A black cat, for the dark-and-light talk.
  • The Red Bus (level 1, free on peabody.kids): Red, and what it sits next to.
  • Red, Red, Red (read aloud, level 4): A read-aloud pattern book about one color.

Color Mixing craft: Bag mixing

You need (3): a zip bag, two colors of washable paint, tape.

  1. A grown-up drops in two colors and tapes the bag shut.
  2. Squish the bag until the colors mix.
  3. Name the new color.

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

Color Mixing song: Little Boy Blue

The words

Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn, The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn; Where is the boy who looks after the sheep? He's under the haystack, fast asleep.

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

Color Mixing 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).

Threes and fours: trace C and c once, then find C in the room and in the book.

Outside activity: Color water

Pour colored water from cup to cup in the water table. What color do two cups make?

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Checked 2026-10-30