Wonderful World of Colors

Today at the summer camp I work at there were only two kids in my group. Last week my co-counselor had eight kids....I was on vacation....whew what a difference it makes. Two kids is a lot easier to keep an eye on lol.

We are exploring the world of colors this week.
On Tuesday we learned our colors in English and Spanish. Listening to their versions of the Spanish words was priceless.

We also read the book Pete the Cat: I L♥ve My White Shoes. For those of you who have never read this book. This is perfect for teaching some of the colors and for a good moral of being happy with what you have.

Yesterday I was sick and did not join my group of wearing our favorite colors. My favorite color is green btw....l♥ve pink also :)

Today, though, since I was feeling better I joined my group again and we read Mouse Paint. Another great story!

 This story is about three little mice that discover the wonder of mixing colors. 
After we read this story, we let the kids paint with the colors red, yellow, and blue. The kids shouted in joy when they discovered they could make orange, purple, and green just like the mice.

Later in the day we let the two kids run. While they were running they were wearing white shirts. My co-counselor and I along with two other people had spray bottles of tie dye. We sprayed them as they ran by. They were a colorful mess of red, green, and blue when they were done.
*Warning to those who try this: It will get on the skin through the shirt and of course you can't always spray true. One of the kids had a tie-dyed arm and face afterwards :). If you quickly go clean it off afterwards, though, most of it will come off right away with soap and water.*

Here's a site for getting the tie-dye mixture. Just put it in spray bottles afterwards for a color run (or you could just tie-dye a shirt)

God Bless!
~Elisa (Miss Lisa to the kids)