Trains: Day Three

Color Train

Review colors.
Identify colors on different trains.
Match colors with the correct trains, based on tickets.
Read some train books:Red Train--Will Grace
All Aboard!--Susan Kuklin
Down by the Station--Will Hillebrand

Train Song:

LITTLE BLACK TRAIN

(I'm a Little Teapot)Little black train chugging down the track.
First you chug down, then you chug back.
When you blow your whistle and come to a stop
And all the happy passengers jump right off!
Jean Warren(Change the colors and sing again!)

Activities:

Finger Painting to Review Colors
While you're finger painting, have children make train sounds. Review colors as you go.


After the papers dry, use as background for a color train pattern activity:
1. Here's one where you print out the pictures.
2. For an easier version, just cut out lots of rectangles in different colors of paper and have children follow a pattern to glue them together in a train shape. Add tracks and you have a color train!
3. Extension: use M&Ms or Skittles in a specific color pattern to match the paper train.

Color Train:
Paint (or cover with paper) five shoe box bottoms, making each one a different color. Hook them together to make a color train. Have children gather items of each color to fill the train with "cargo."

All Aboard the Color Train:
Cut out many "tickets" from different colors of construction paper. Give your child seven or
eight tickets. Tell him that you are the conductor of a Color Train and he can ride the train if he gives you a ticket that matches the color you call. Announce "All aboard the Red
Train" or the color of your choice.
Have him give you the appropriate
color ticket and then he can climb on the train for a ride. Use a magic blanket ride on the floor as your pretend train. After a minute, stop and announce a new color.



Let children use different colors of blocks to build a train OR if you have a model train like this one, let them practice naming the colors/matching them to put the train together.


Snacks:
Train Cake
A cake can be made to look like a train, by cutting a sheet cake into six rectangular pieces.
Turn the pieces sideways.
Mix different colors of frosting and have children help decorate the rectangles.
Place a marshmallow on the front section to represent a smoke stack.
Cut additional marshmallows in half to create wheels.
Attach the wheels to the sides of the train cars with toothpicks.