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Writing Activities: Making Books About Colors with Preschoolers

December 17, 2014 • 9 Comments

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Our Playful Preschool Series  theme this week is lights.  This month we have shared some activities about evergreen trees and reindeer.   This week we are looking at writing activities for preschoolers.

Making books with preschoolers is a fun and educational way to work on lots of different literacy skills.  In this activity we worked on handwriting, beginning sounds, labeling and brainstorming.

making books with preschoolers is full of colorful fun with this colored lights book from growingbookbybook.com

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Making Books:  Colored Lights

Why We Chose This Activity

Writing is probably the area that my preschooler needs the most support with at this time.  He will occasionally write a letter that is recognizable.  He also will trace.  But, he has to be in that just right mood for either of these things to take place!

He does love stickers and books.  So, I took those interests along with our theme this week of lights and came up with a book making activity for us.

Preparing the Book

Materials needed:  construction paper (various colors), light template, makers, book ring, hole punch, stickers, and abc chart (optional)

1.  Using a template, trace the light onto each piece of colored paper.

2.  Cut each light out.  If your preschooler is ready to handle this, then allow him to do this step.

3.  Punch a hole at the top of each light.

4.  Attach a book ring through the lights.

Creating the Book

Before we even started writing, we named the colors in our book.  We had some colored light stickers and did a matching activity to stir up some excitement for our book making experience.

Each preschooler’s writing skills are at a different developmental level.  Here are some ways to create the book depending on their writing readiness.

  • My son has been working on beginning sounds.  We named the color and identified the beginning sound.  He then attempted to write the letter that represented that sound.  There was a lot of reminding about proper grip.  It’s also helpful to have a model for the child to reference as they write.  You could use an alphabet chart or draw the letter first for the child.
  • tracing letters when writing and making books
  • On some of the pages, I wrote the word.  Then, I made a dotted template for him to trace.  He liked having a mix of things to do.
  • If your child has greater writing control, they could write the entire word on their own.  Encourage the sound to write down the sounds they hear in the word.  Conventional spelling is not important at this stage.

using stickers to help illustrate when making books

After we had each page labeled, we use more stickers.  We used our favorite sticker resource book and searched for pictures that had the same beginning sound as each colored page.  He added the stickers to his book.

making books with preschoolers: colored lights book

We created this book over multiple sittings.  It is now one of the books that we read each day during our multiple story times.

Check out our other writing activities and our color book list!

Keep reading.  Visit the links below for more great activities from the Playful Preschool team!

 For MORE Hands-on Light Theme Play and Learn Activities:

Matching ABCs Lights Activity by Mom Inspired Life
abc Christmas Lights by Powerful Mothering
5+ Christmas Lights Math Activities for Preschoolers by LIfe Over C’s
Christmas Lights Activities for Preschool: Pony Bead Counting Sticks by The Preschool Toolbox
Lights on the Tree Sensory Play by Fun-A-Day!
Scented Fingerprint Christmas Lights by Learning 2 Walk
Make a Light Bulb Model by Capri + 3
How to Make Shadow Puppets: Play and Learn with Lights by The Educators’ Spin On It

 

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About Jodie Rodriguez

Jodie Rodriguez is a mom of two young boys and an early childhood/elementary educator with over 20 years of experience. Jodie's passion is helping parents, teachers, librarians and anyone else interested in nurturing and reaching ALL of our youngest growing readers.

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  1. The Preschool Toolbox says

    December 21, 2014 at 5:50 am

    Love this little book. It’s so fun to make them with kids and have them “read” back to you! Great post for encouraging seasonal literacy!

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  2. Amanda says

    December 17, 2014 at 6:09 pm

    LOVE LOVE LOVE – so simple, but oh so powerful!

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    • Jodie Rodriguez says

      December 19, 2014 at 3:42 pm

      Thank you Amanda. I love projects that are packed with lots of learning!

      Reply
  3. Theresa (Capri + 3) says

    December 17, 2014 at 8:01 am

    I love all the different activities you came up with to interact with each page. The light bulb shape is really cute for the book!

    Reply

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