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As I searched for songs to teach the colors, I found that most out there don’t deal with all the colors. There are some great ones that deal with a specific color. They teach you how to spell the color and name some things that are traditionally that color. I will try and add some of these songs in the coming months. Here are some color songs and rhymes that deal with all the colors. I have attached some examples of some of the visuals I use for these songs. Enjoy!
If you see red Sung to: If you’re happy and you know it
If you see a red ____, nod your head
If you see a Blue ____ touch your shoe
You can have the kids pick a secret color and tell them to find that color in the room. Then they tell you what they found in the song.
Where are the colors? Sung to: The Paw-Paw Patch
Where, oh, where are the kids with blue on?
Stand up tall so we can see you now
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Little red caboose
Little red caboose, Chug, chug, chug-
Little red caboose Behind the train, train, train, train.
Coming around the track, track, track, track-
Little red caboose Behind the train, choo!
Idea #1: Change colors for the caboose
Idea #2: Have the children get in a line and chug around the room like a choo-choo train.
Click here for Train Visual
Balloons Colors
The green one went pop and then there were nine
The red one went pop and then there were eight
The orange one went pop and then there were seven
The purple one went pop and then there were six
The yellow one went pop and then there were five
The pink one went pop and then there were four
The black one went pop and then there were three
The white one went pop and then there were two
The brown one went pop and then there was one
Until he went pop and then there were zero
The order of the color doesn’t matter so you can use whatever
color you want for the underlined words.
Idea #1: Give out the balloons visuals to the students and have them tell you what color they have
Idea #2: Have ten students stand up representing a balloon, they could hold a balloon visual or the number. When there balloon ‘pops’ they sit down.
Click here for Balloon Visual
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Favorite Color Books:
1. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin
2. Freight Train Board Book by Donald Crews
