Yellow

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Literature relating to the color "yellow":

The Big Yellow Bus

Curious George
Little Blue and Little Yellow ~ Leo Leonni
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf ~ Lois Ehlert
Is It Red? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue? ~ Tana Hoban

Yellow Ball ~ Molly Bang

Yellow Song
(tune of Jingle Bells)
Y E L L O W
Yellow is the sun.
Lemons and pears
And golden hair,
Yellow is such fun.

Make a yellow sunflower by flattening out a yellow cupcake paper and gluing sunflower seeds in the center. Draw some lines to make petals and glue or draw on a stem and leaves.

Read Curious George, the book about the monkey and the man with the big yellow hat. There are many books in this series. Cut out big yellow hats and have the children illustrate pictures from the story on sentence strips. Make headbands from the sentence strips and attach the hats to the headbands.

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