A Nursery weekly lesson plan focused on Creating Natural Colours, prompting children to explore pigments in natural items, trace the letter Ee, recognize rectangle shapes, and create leaf crowns.
What children learn
- Identify natural sources of red, blue, orange, yellow, and green.
- Extract colour from flowers, fruits, vegetables, leaves, and spices.
- Compare natural colours and consider how colours can be mixed.
- Recognise, trace, and write Ee and construct and identify rectangles.
Key activities
- Extracting red colour from red flowers
- Sorting blue natural items and making blue pigment
- Grating carrots to investigate orange colour
- Exploring yellow with turmeric and fenugreek
- Painting with green juice made from leafy ingredients
You’ll need
red flowers and white paper, jamun or blue flowers, carrots and a grater, turmeric and fenugreek, spinach and other green leaves, cotton balls, bowls and tissue paper, rectangle objects and loose parts, letter Ee cards
Structure: 5 days; each day: Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, EVS, Literacy, Numeracy