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Parents really loved how we worked with the book and the scarves on learning color names. They also commented how much they liked the book. -- Play specialist, Salem, VA
The My Many Colored Days kit contains twenty scarves in ten colors, the book My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss, a music CD and Velcro for hanging the scarves. Children strengthen fine and gross motor skills as they dance with their scarves to the music. Cognitive and communication skills are practiced as children listen to the story, look at pictures, identify colors and explore emotions. The scarves and music provide lots of opportunities for pretend play.
Approx. Price: 21.00-40.00 Box Age Range: None listed # of Pieces: 11-50 Washability: Surface Wipe Storability: Easy Directions: Simple Play Locations: Indoor and Outdoor Adjustability: None Levels of Play: One Level Batteries: None needed
Description
The ten colors of the scarves are visually appealing.
The music CD provides auditory stimulation.
All the scarves are uniform in texture.
Skills
Dancing and swaying with the scarves helps build body awareness and gravitational security.
Visual tracking can be encouraged as children throw a scarf into the air and watch it slowly drift down to the ground. Or a caregiver can slowly pull one scarf on a table from one side of a child to the other and have the child follow with his eyes.
Children learn color recognition and identification as they listen to the story and touch the corresponding colored scarves.
Children can learn about different feelings and how to express those feelings.
Matching skills can be practiced as children match different colored scarves to the different colored pages in the book or match the scarves to each other (there are two scarves of each color).
Learn directionality by moving the scarves to the left, right, up high, down low, etc.
Play Ideas
Create soothing classroom color waves. Help the children coordinate swirling the scarves simultaneously in the same direction.
Match scarves to same colored foods and complete a taste test (an orange for the orange scarf, a strawberry for the red scarf, etc.).
Look through the translucent scarves to see how the world changes with the different colors.
Dance to the music while holding and waving the scarves.
Have two children throw a scarf back and forth. It floats easily in the air and gives children time to visually track it and ready their bodies to catch it.
Adaptation Ideas
Description
The twenty scarves are light and easy to grasp.
The board book’s pages are thick and easy for little fingers to turn.
The included music CD encourages active movement play.
Children who have significant physical limitations may enjoy listening to the variety of music while a caregiver gently moves a scarf up and down their arms or on their cheek.
Skills
Dancing with the scarves provides opportunities to practice balance, coordinated movements and range of motion.
As children wave the scarves they are practicing hand control, grasping and wrist rotation.
Children can work on hand transferring using one scarf.
Eye-hand coordination can be encouraged as children throw a scarf in the air and catch it with their hands.
Play Ideas
Have the children imitate the adult’s dance movements and patterns with each of the different tempo songs.
Tie the scarves end to end and play limbo.
Dance to the music while holding and waving the scarves.
Sit on the floor, one to two feet away from a child, also sitting. Each person can hold an end of the scarf. Gently pull back and forth as you sing “Row, row, row your boat.” This helps children work on stretching and range of motion exercises during play.
“Juggle” using two scarves. When one floats down, catch it and throw the other one up. This helps with bilateral coordination and visual processing skills.
Have two children throw a scarf back and forth. It floats easily in the air and gives children time to visually track it and ready their bodies to catch it.
Tie the scarves together and use it to play limbo.
Hide the scarves around the house and have the children find them. They can be hidden close by or farther apart to encourage movement. They can also be hidden at different levels so a child must squat down or reach high to retrieve them.
Adaptation Ideas
For children with fine motor delays, the scarf can be attached to a ring or bracelet that the child wears. As the child moves the scarf moves with them.
Place a small piece of self adhesive felt pad on each page. This will hold the pages slightly apart to make it easier to turn one at a time.
Description
The kit contains twenty scarves in ten colors.
The included board book contains simple sentences and phrases making it suitable for beginner readers.
The bright illustrations in the book are engaging.
This set helps open communication to talk about feelings and that it is okay to express how you are feeling and there are appropriate ways to do so.
Creativity can be encouraged. The scarves promote open-ended play.
Skills
Verbal communication can be encouraged as children ask for a particular colored scarf.
Reading is encouraged using the included simple Dr. Seuss board book.
Children learn color recognition and identification as they listen to the story and touch the corresponding colored scarves.
Children can learn about different feelings and how to express those feelings.
Learn directionality by moving the scarves to the left, right, up high, down low, etc.
Counting can be encouraged as children count the number of scarves. Begin this task using only a couple scarves and gradually increase as a child’s ability progresses.
Memory and recall skills can be targeted as children remember what animal or picture represents each color in the book. Or after becoming familiar with the book, a caregiver can read a page and leave out the color name. A child can then answer what color is on the page. For example, “On bright _______ days how good it feels to be a horse and kick my heels!” The answer is “red”.
Matching skills can be practiced as children match different colored scarves to the different colored pages in the book or match the scarves to each other (there are two scarves of each color).
Play Ideas
Children with the matching colored scarf as the one on the book page can imitate the action (“flap,” “kick my heels,” “jump”) described in the book.
Give each child a marker that matches to color of their scarf. Have the child create a drawing that expresses how they are feeling. Each child can share their “feeling art” with the rest of the group.
Have each child pick a scarf out of the bag. Each child must say a word (real or made up) that rhymes with his/her scarf color. Give each child the opportunity to create a rhyming word for each color.
There are two of each color scarf. Use the scarves to match children up in order to perform paired tasks or work together as a team.
Act out each page of the book to learn how to express different feelings.
Dance to the music while holding and waving the scarves.
Have the children dance to the music holding their scarves. When the music stops, they freeze. This helps work on listening and processing skills.
Write simple action words or phrases, such as hop, jump, sit, spin in different colors, corresponding to the scarf colors. Tape them onto the wall or refrigerator. Then have a child pull a scarf out of a bag, read the corresponding word and do that action.
Play dress up using the different scarves. Tie them together to make skirts or belts. Use them as hats.
Have two children throw a scarf back and forth. It floats easily in the air and gives children time to visually track it and ready their bodies to catch it.
Play peek-a-boo using the translucent scarves.
Have two children hold the four corners of one scarf. Place a lightweight ball or plush toy on it and use the scarf as a mini parachute. This activity helps children learn to work together and practice timing of movements.
Place a small toy in the middle of a scarf and tie the ends loosely. Have the child untie the scarf to reach the toy. This helps children use their hands cooperatively and strengthens fine motor manipulations.
Play a game using one scarf. Throw it up in the air. Continue to catch it and throw it up; don’t let it touch the ground.
Hide the scarves around the house and have the children find them.
Place all the scarves in a basket by the child. Then verbally ask the child for a particular color scarf. Have him find it in the basket and hand it to you.
Adaptation Ideas
Description
The kit includes the board book My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss.
Twenty scarves (two each of ten colors) and a music CD are included in the kit.
Creativity can be encouraged. The scarves promote open-ended play.
Skills
Children learn color recognition and identification as they listen to the story and touch the corresponding colored scarves.
Children can learn about different feelings and how to express those feelings.
Matching skills can be practiced as children match different colored scarves to the different colored pages in the book or match the scarves to each other (there are two scarves of each color).
Learn directionality by moving the scarves to the left, right, up high, down low, etc.
Counting can be encouraged as children count the number of scarves. Begin this task using only a couple scarves and gradually increase as a child’s ability progresses.
Memory and recall skills can be targeted as children remember what animal or picture represents each color in the book. Or after becoming familiar with the book, a caregiver can read a page and leave out the color name. A child can then answer what color is on the page. For example, “On bright _______ days how good it feels to be a horse and kick my heels!” The answer is “red”.
Play Ideas
Pretend the scarves are wings and have a butterfly parade through the house.
Each child pulls a scarf out of the bag and has to go find one object of the same color in the room.
To practice learning classmate/friend names, the child who has the corresponding colored scarf as the one being read about in the book stands up. The other children call out that child’s name when they stand up.
Dance to the music while holding and waving the scarves.
Write simple action words or phrases, such as hop, jump, sit, spin in different colors, corresponding to the scarf colors. Tape them onto the wall or refrigerator. Then have a child pull a scarf out of a bag, read the corresponding word and do that action.
After reading the story, open a random page and act it out. Have the child try to guess what color you are. Switch roles and have the child act out a page.
Have two children throw a scarf back and forth. It floats easily in the air and gives children time to visually track it and ready their bodies to catch it.
Hold a scarf in each hand and pretend they are wings. Fly through the house moving your wings.
Hide the scarves around the house and have the children find them.
