This song is available on Hap Palmer's Can Cockatoos Count by Twos?
Objectives:
· Identify colors: red, blue, yellow, green, purple and orange
· Identify secondary colors: green, purple and orange
· Understand how primary colors mix to form secondary colors: blue + yellow = green, red + blue = purple, red + yellow = orange
· Develop coordination, balance and cardiovascular fitness.
· Learn movement vocabulary and perform basic motor skills
Materials:
Colored scarves, crepe paper or ribbons; red, blue, yellow, green, purple and orange.
Setting:
Groups of six people, each with a different color and space to move freely. Activity: Start in a seated position. When your color is called, stand and do the motion described. Continue moving until you hear the words, "Everybody quickly jump up and sit down."
Activity:
Start in a seated position. When your color is called, stand and create motions with your scarf or ribbon. By
the end of each verse, all the colors are moving. Continue moving until you hear the words, "Everybody
quickly jump up and sit down."
Red, stand up and nod your head
Purple, stand up and walk around red
Green and orange, stand and stretch
Blue and yellow, walk around green,
'cause blue and yellow make green
This is a song about colors
You see them all around
There is red on a stop sign, green on a tree
Blue in the sky and sea
Now everybody quickly jump up and sit down
Yellow, stand up and circle your shoulders
Orange, stand up and march around yellow
Purple and green, stand and bounce
Red and blue, jump around purple,
'cause red and blue make purple
This is a song about colors,
You see them all around
There is orange on a pumpkin, purple on a plum
Yellow on bananas yum, yum
Now everybody quickly jump up and sit down
Blue, stand up and balance on one foot
Green, stand up and jog around blue
Orange and purple, stand and wiggle
Red and yellow, hop around orange,
'cause red and yellow make orange
This is a song about colors,
You see them all around
It's about the happiest song in town
Everybody quickly jump up and sit down
Follow Up:
This activity can be used as a follow up to the song Colors In Motion. If you are using scarves, you can explore other ways of moving with your scarf with the next song,Magic Scarf (#4) and the song Toss It High Let It Fly (#15).
Book Suggestions for this Song:
See more of our Early Childhood and Colors Song Lyrics
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