Toddler Playschool: R is for Rainbows {free printable}

Books
A Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman
Mix It Up by Herve Tullet
Elmer and the Rainbow by David McKee
The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew DeWalt
Monsters Love Crayons by Mike Austin

Songs and Fingerplays
There Was a Rainbow (Bingo tune)
There was a rainbow way up high
It spread across the sky-o
Red, orange, yellow, green
Blue, indigo, purple beams
It spread across the sky-o

If You Mix the Colors (If You’re Happy and You Know It tune)
If you mix blue and yellow, you get green
If you mix blue and yellow, you get green
If you mix blue and yellow, the color green will say “hello”
If you mix blue and yellow, you get green

If you mix red and blue, you get purple
If you mix red and blue, you get purple
If you mix red and blue, the color purple will shine through
If you mix red and blue, you get purple

If you mix yellow and red, you get orange
If you mix yellow and red, you get orange
If you mix yellow and red, the color orange will show instead
If you mix yellow and red, you get orange

5 Little Crayons
Five little crayons standing in a line.
The first one said, “I’m red and fine.”
The second one said, “I’m green like a tree!”
The third one said, “I’m green like the sea.”
The fourth one said, “I’m yellow like the sun.”
The fifth one said, “Being purple is fun!”

Literacy
R Page for Alphabet Book
Create a page for the alphabet book. Each page is blank except for the week’s letter. Children can be provided with an open-ended activity to decorate the page of their book.  Or you can use the suggested activities to set up an activity to create the page. Once done, pages can be laminated and bound with spiral binding or rings. You can find a template for this book here.