Painted Grilled Cheese

FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES:

VOCABULARY

• paint
• cheese
• mix
• melt

MATH

• Mouse Patterns
• Copy or draw many colorful mice
• Lay them out in a pattern and let the children complete the pattern by adding the correct mouse
• red, yellow; red, yellow; red, _______
• blue, green, red; blue, green, red; _____, green, ___
• yellow, yellow, blue; yellow, yellow, blue; _____, _____, _____

Sandwich Patterns
• When preparing the sandwich, children had to follow the pattern: bread, cheese, cheese, bread
• Continue this concept with other objects that relate to the story book read

SCIENCE

• Mix food coloring or paint to create different colors

Color Mixing
• (To be prepared by an adult beforehand:
• 1 cup corn starch
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 4 cups water
• Mix on the stove
• Separate into 3 bowls and let cool
• Add red food coloring to one bowl
• Add yellow food coloring to another bowl
• Add blue food coloring to a third bowl
• Add one spoonful of mixture to plastic ziplock bags in various combinations
• Red + blue
• Red + yellow
• Blue + yellow
• Red + yellow + blue
• Seal bags
• Let children mix the colors within the bags

LANGUAGE ARTS

• Hold up colorful mice and tell the children they have to hide from a hungry cat
• Have them come up with a place that the colorful mice can hide
• EXAMPLE: The yellow mouse may hide in a bowl of lemons
• To encourage conversation, begin by supplying hiding places for some of the colorful mice
• Let the children match the colors then create their own stories

• Sequencing
• Create (by drawing) or find pictures from a book or magazine of individual pictures depicting:
• A cow
• Milk being churned
• Cheese
• Mix up the images and then have your child place them in the proper order to tell the "picture" story

• Make a color book
• Write the color name on each page
• Have children cut and paste pictures from magazines on proper pages
• Play I spy:
• “I spy something red"
• “I spy something blue"
• “I spy something magenta"
• “I spy something turquoise" etc.

ART

• Provide primary colors.
• Let the children experiment
• EXAMPLE: Give the child different colored cellophane
• Let the child collage and note as the colors overlay, they create new colors