Orange is a Carrot color poem is a fun activity to do with your preschoolers or kindergarteners. It is great for learning vocabulary, rhyming, and colors and reinforcing everyday skills like using glue sticks, liquid glue, scissors, stickers, push pins, paint, and paper tearing.
I usually make this our first big project of the school year.
Orange is a carrot,
Yellow is a pear.
Green is the grass,
And brown is a bear.
Purple is a plum,
And blue is the sky.
Black is a witch’s hat,
And red is cherry pie!
Trace the shape of a carrot and then sponge paint using orange paint. Cut out the shape, glue it to the page, and then glue down green yarn for the leaves.
Trace the shape of the pear onto a piece of white paper and cut yellow squares out of tissue paper. After the kids glue down the tissue paper, have them go over the top with another layer of glue. After it dries, cut out the shape, add a green leaf and glue down.
Cut to the line to make the grass
Trace the bear onto a piece of construction paper. Using a pin have the kids poke out the shape and then tear it out. Add two drops of glue, add the googly eyes, then add the nose and mouth. 
Draw the shape of a plum and provide strips of purple construction paper. Have the kids tear the paper and glue them inside the shape Cut out, add a green leaf and glue down.
Demonstrate how to tear the cotton balls apart to make clouds and glue them down onto the blue construction paper..
For the witch’s hat, I provided triangles and added white fold lines. I had the kids glue down their folds and then glue to the page. An alternative option is to add a black handprint cat.
Cut out a piece of pie using brown construction paper and then add the red dot stickers. Glue down the pie.
I made individual covers using each of the kid’s names and then bound each book. (The link to the bookbinder can be found here.)
I have created a Teachers Pay Teachers resource to help teachers and parents extend this activity.
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