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Color Mixing theme for toddlers: a week of activities

A color mixing 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 color mixing week

A day of the color mixing theme with toddlers

  1. Arrival and free play on the floor.
  2. Sing “Little Boy Blue” with actions; repeat it while you change and feed.
  3. Hold and pass something real for the week (mix), 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 red.
  6. Read The Red Hat on laps, pointing and naming.
  7. Nap, then the song once more at pick-up.

Color Mixing 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: Little Boy Blue.
  5. Read: The Red Hat (level 3).

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

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.

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

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.

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

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).

Infants and toddlers: skip the trace page; show the picture page and say the word.

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