Exploring Fall colors with gourds and paint cards! Take a walk outside or visit a farm. This is the perfect time of year for exploring Fall colors. Beautiful jewel tones are abundant in Fall. We picked up a handful of paint cards to check out new colors. These Fall colors go way beyond your primary and secondary colors. Make color samples to take with you on your Fall adventures this season.
Exploring Fall Colors With Gourds
Exploring Preschool Fall Colors With Gourds
One of the best parts of exploring fall colors this week was actually getting out and exploring! We visited a local farm, greenhouse, and market that sells all the wonderful bounty of fall including gourds, mums, Indian corn, corn stalks, pumpkins and of course cider donuts!
We spent a whole morning picking out our items together, taking photos and being together outside in awesome, cool fall weather. Take a look at our bounty!
I thought it might be fun exploring fall colors with paint chip cards. These are a wonderful resource for playing with colors although we have only used the standard colors for color sorting and scissor skills.
Use a hole punch to make a hole in each color.
After bringing all our goodies home, we set out exploring fall colors! He was also very curious about the color names on the cards which were a little odd. However, it was a great way to talk about shades of our favorite, common colors. He enjoyed matching the cards to the gourds!
One of the other fun ways we went about exploring Fall colors was to take pictures of what we saw on our little field trip. I let him take my iPhone and told him to take pictures of neat or colorful things.
With a little guidance, he caught some pretty colors of mums, pumpkins, corn, and warty pumpkins. We sat down an scrolled through them as well!
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For More FALL COLOR Themed Preschool Activities from the PLAYful Preschool Education Team:
Fall Colors Modeled Writing in Preschool by Fun-A-Day
Fall Colors Water Mixing by Still Playing School
Why Leaves Change Colors by The Preschool Toolbox Blog
Learning With Preschool Songs: The Leaves of the Trees by Growing Book by Book
DIY Fall Color Word Book by The Educators’ Spin On It
Learning Number Words with Fall Colored Leaves by Tiny Tots Adventures
Fall Tree Number Matching by Mom Inspired Life
Colors of Fall Sensory Bin by Life Over C’s
Foot Painting The Fall Colours by Learning to Walk
Exploring Fall Colors in Paint by Powerful Mothering
Autumn Colours Plant Science at Rainy Day Mum
Make Your Own Fall Potpourri at Capri + 3
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I really like how you punched a hole in the paint chip cards and put it over each item to find color matches. I also love that he took pictures of fall colors. My son would definitely enjoy that!
Such a fun way to explore colors. The color names are so fun!
That is a really creative way to explore Fall colors. I love your bounty from the local Farm. Very festive!
What a LOVELY learning station. I’m headed to the pumpkin patch soon and hope to pick up some gourds and small pumpkins for our table.
What up beautiful set up! I think now I need to go to the hardware store and pick up some paint chips, thanks for the idea.
Ohhh what fun – we’ve never thought to use paint chips for colour matching before and I love the holes that you can peep through.
Thanks! We had fun together!
Awesome! My favorite time of the year!
Thanks it got a bit hilarious!
Quick and easy is perfect for us!
what an awesome idea!!!
I am so going to have to do this soon.
I love that you explored SHADES of various colors. Sometimes we run out of various colored crayons and we have to use a SHADE of a different color. I always get, “THAT’S NOT BLUE!”:) Explaining that colors have various shades with the paint samples and your fall items=priceless learning!
I love how you used the paint samples with the gourds!
I think I will be making a trip to the paint section in our local hardware store shortly. I have NEVER thought of using swatches to teach colours. Absolutely genius. I am curious as to what size hole punch was used. Any ideas?
Love this! Featuring on my KBN roundup of Favorite Fall Activities and Crafts for kids at: http://www.happyandblessedhome.com/fall-activities-and-fall-crafts-for-kids/ Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!