Description

What our Colors: White lesson plan includes

Lesson Objectives and Overview: Colors: White teaches young learners about this color. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to identify the color white when shown three different crayon colors. This lesson is for students in preschool.

POLAR BEAR PAINTING ACTIVITY

For this activity, students will make a polar bear with paint and forks! Read or listen to A Polar Bear in the Snow by Mac Barnett. Pass out blue construction paper, white paint in a shallow container, and a fork. Demonstrate how to dip the fork prongs in the paint and press on the blue paper to look like patches of fur. Tell the students to press the fork in the paint and on the paper until a large circular area is covered. Let students experiment with dipping the fork in the paint and pressing on the paper. This will create a fur-like pattern.

Pass out the two white ovals. Cut one in half to form the ears. Have students press the complete oval on their wet paint in the nose area and the two white ovals at the top for the ears. Give them markers and have them fill out the details of the nose and ears. Glue two googly eyes or black circles for the eyes. Let dry and display.

This lesson is meant to be used in conjunction with the other color lessons so that the artworks from the activity combine to create a large ocean mural. The white polar bears can be displayed with the blue ocean mural.

Options and Extensions

There are a number of options to include in this lesson if you want to. Have students wear white to school. Another idea is to create a white sensory bin using cotton balls, packing peanuts, rice, or white pom poms. Bring in white food to try. Milk, popcorn, marshmallows, mozzarella cheese sticks, and yogurt are all great options. Gather items of different colors in a basket and provide a magnifying glass. Ask students to find and sort the white items.

Give students a large piece of butcher paper or poster board and have them work together to create a white image collage. They can draw pictures of white items or glue items they bring from home (e.g., wrappers, crayons, yarn, fabric, magazine clippings, buttons, or tissue paper). One more idea is to cut out the white crayon (see Additional Resources). Keep each crayon until the students have learned all the colors, then give students a small envelope with the flap cut off to color as a crayon box. Arrange crayons standing up in the envelope to resemble a box full of crayons!

As an extension to the lesson, read White Rabbit’s Color Book by Alan Baker, Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin, and Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear? by Eric Carle.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Our preschool lessons include additional resources that you can use throughout the lesson. They are provided to give you as much content as possible to complete the lesson without their having to find sources on their own. For instance, if the lesson requires you to show students pictures, you can use the ones in the additional resources.

Preschool Philosophy

Our preschool curriculum is thoughtfully designed by professional teachers to nurture curiosity, build foundational skills, and prepare young learners for kindergarten and beyond. Each preschool lesson plan offers age-appropriate activities to promote early literacy, math readiness, creativity, and social-emotional growth.

At the preschool level, children are developing rapidly—socially, emotionally, physically, and academically. The goal of our lesson plans for preschool is to provide structured yet engaging learning experiences that spark imagination, encourage problem-solving, and foster a lifelong love of learning.

CURRICULUM FOCUS

Our curriculum focuses on key objectives such as:

• Building early literacy and language skills through stories, songs, and interactive activities.
• Developing number sense, shapes, colors, and patterns with hands-on lessons.
• Encouraging creativity and self-expression through art, play, and music.
• Supporting social-emotional development, cooperation, and confidence.
• Strengthening fine and gross motor skills through active learning.