Description

What our Colors: Green lesson plan includes

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

LEAF RUBBING ART ACTIVITY

For this activity, students will gather leaves of different sizes. (Flat ones work best.) They will then rub an unwrapped green crayon over a white piece of paper that they placed on top of the leaf. They will watch as the leaf designs reveal themselves on the paper.

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. Students will glue their leaf rubbings onto the shells of the turtle outline from the Additional Resources. They will later add these turtles to the ocean mural.

Options and Extensions

There are a number of options to include in this lesson if you want to. Have students wear green to school. Another idea is to dye rice green with green food coloring and a few drops of vinegar. Place in a large sensory bin with measuring spoons, cups, and bowls. Let students scoop, measure, and explore the green rice. Bring in green food to try: green apples, cucumbers, green peppers, celery, kiwi, etc.

Gather items of different colors in a basket and provide a magnifying glass. Ask students to find and sort the green items. Add blue and yellow paint to a Ziplock bag and seal it. Tape to a desk or table and have students squish the paint together until green is formed. You could also talk about how many things are green in nature (trees, grass, bushes, food, and many animals). Show pictures of green animals like snakes, lizards, frogs, alligators, turtles, birds, and insects.

Give students a large piece of butcher paper or poster board and have them work together to create a green image collage. They can draw pictures of green 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 color the green 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 Little Green Peas by Keith Baker, Green by Laura Vaccaro Seager, and Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox.

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.