ORANGE QUICK STARTS
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Squeeze oranges to make fresh orange juice. |
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Plant a carrot garden. |
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Buy a gold fish. |
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Carve a Jack o”lantern. |
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Make orange play dough. |
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Make orange chains. |
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Count gold fish crackers or candy corn. |
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Make orange paper lanterns. |
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Look for orange flowers. |
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Eat orange sections, make an orange smile with one section. |
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Make orange finger paint by mixing together red and yellow paint. |
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Bounce an orange basketball. |
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Make orange frosting to spread on crackers. |
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Make an orange windsock |
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Add orange items to your dress-up area. |
| ORANGE COLLAGES |
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Have your child cut or tear orange pictures from old magazines. |
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Give her a piece of orange paper. |
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Have her glue her orange pictures onto her orange piece of paper. |
| ORANGE PUMPKINS |
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Give your child a white paper plate, some orange paint and a brush. |
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Have him paint his plate orange. |
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While the plate is still wet, have him place small square orange tissue paper squares all over the plate. |
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Staple or glue on a green stem at the top to make a pumpkin. |
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| ORANGE FINGER-PAINT PRINTS |
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For each of your children, provide a tray with some red and yellow finger paint on it. |
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Invite each child to mix the colors together by finger-painting a design on his or her tray. |
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Help the child place a paper on top of the design and gently rub a hand over it. |
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Then lift the paper to reveal a print of the child’s finger-painted design on the back. |
| PUMPKIN PUPPETS |
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Cut medium sized pumpkin shapes out of heavy orange paper. |
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Give your children black markers or crayons and have them draw a face on their pumpkin. |
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Next, give a large craft stick to each child and have them glue or tape the stick to the bottom of the back of the pumpkin. |
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Encourage your children to make up orange stories or sing orange songs while holding up their pumpkin puppets. |
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CARROT PRINTS
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Set out some orange paint in a tray, some white paper and a carrot cut in half. |
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Show your children how to dip one of the carrots into the orange paint and then how to make a print of the small circle on a piece of paper. |
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ORANGE PRINTS
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Have your children help you squeeze the juice out of several orange halves. |
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Let them enjoy the juice at snack time. |
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Save the orange halves and set them out to dry for about an hour. |
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Make orange paint pads by folding paper towels in half and placing them in shallow containers and pouring on small amounts of orange tempera paint. |
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Give each of your children a sheet of white construction paper and one of the orange halves. |
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Show the children how to press the cut side of the orange half into the paint pad and then onto their papers, two or three times, to make orange prints. |
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PUMPKIN SEQUENCE CARDS
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Make a set of four sequence cards depicting the life of a pumpkin. |
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On the first card, draw a small seed planted in the ground. |
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On the second card, draw a picture of the seed sprouting out of the ground. |
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On the third card, draw a picture of a pumpkin vine on the ground with a yellow flower blooming on the vine. |
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On the fourth picture, draw a large orange pumpkin sitting on the ground. |
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Mix up the cards and let your children take turns placing the cards in the correct sequence. |
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PUMPKIN SIZES
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Cut out several pumpkins of different sizes. |
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Give them to your child and have her sort the pumpkins. |
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Have her put the pumpkins in a line from the smallest to the largest pumpkin. |
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Or have her start with the largest pumpkin and on down.
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| WHAT’S MISSING |
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Sit with your children at a table and show them several orange objects, such as a small pumpkin, an orange crayon, a carrot, an orange, and a piece of orange paper. |
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Have the children cover their eyes as you remove one of the items. |
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When the children uncover their eyes, ask them to tell which item is missing. |
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Let the first child to answer correctly remove an item for the next round of the game. |
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Continue until everyone has had a turn. |
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| ORANGE STORY |
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Hang plain white paper on a wall and invite your children to sit with you in front of it. |
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Start telling a story that contains various orange items and details. |
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As you do so, use orange crayons or markers to illustrate your story. |
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Continue to the story’s end. |
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Then invite the children to use your illustrations to retell the story in their own words. |
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MAKING ORANGE
There are many fun ways to illustrate to your child how orange is made. Here are a few. |
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Squeeze drops of red and yellow food coloring into a glass of water. |
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Mix yellow and red paint. |
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Put a yellow clear-plastic report cover on top of a red one. |
| PLANT AN ORANGE GARDEN |
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Look through the seed packets at your local garden store and let your child choose 3-5 different types of seeds that promise orange plants. |
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You might do all orange flowers or all orange vegetables or one of each. |
ORANGE SNACKS
There are lots of great orange snacks that children love. Plan a different one each day for a week or more. |
| Orange sections |
Carrot sticks |
| Cheddar cheese cubes |
Orange juice |
| Cantaloupe chunks |
Dried apricots |
| Gold fish crackers |
Orange jello |
| Orange sherbet |
Macaroni and cheese |
| Cheese Toast |
Orange Marmalade |
| Pumpkin pudding |
Peach pie |
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ORANGE SONGS |
WE LOVE ORANGE
Tune: “Three Blind Mice”
We love orange, we love orange.
Yes we do, yes we do-
Crunchy carrots so good to eat,
Juicy oranges, oh so sweet,
Pumpkins ready for trick-or-treat.
Yes, we love orange!
Heather McPhail
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I’M A LITTLE PUMPKIN
Tune: “I’m A Little Teapot”
I’m a little pumpkin,
Orange and round.
When I’m sad,
My face wears a frown.
But when I’m happy,
I’m aglow
Watch my smile
Just grow and grow!
Barbara Hasson
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ORANGE TREATS
Orange treats, orange treats, yum, yum, yum.
Which will I choose, oh what fun.
Will it be a carrot, crunch and sweet?
Will it be orange sections, juicy and sweet?
Will it be orange sherbet, icy and sweet?
What will I choose for my afternoon treat?
Jean Warren
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MAKING ORANGE PAINT
Tune: “Down By The Station”
Down at the paint store
Early in the morning.
See the little paint cans
All in a row.
See the paint worker
Mix yellow paint in red.
Stir, stir, stir, stir
Now it’s orange paint – instead!
Jean Warren
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