Exploring colours in nature

Since the sun was shining today we made the most of it and got outside, a little trip to the swing park this morning and out exploring the garden later on.  Keeping on the topic of colours we chatted about the different colours we could see in the garden.  I then gave each child a container and asked them if they'd like to collect some things from the garden in as many colours as they could find.  Naturally this was met with much excitement and off they went exploring the garden.

Once they came back with their containers filled, a little cup in all cases except one child who favoured the toy wheelbarrow!  We chatted some more about colours, helping the younger ones to identify them and encouraging the older ones to think about what the colours reminded them of.

The children then decided they would like to use the objects they'd found to make collage pictures to take home, so they got stuck in with the glue!

The one below was my personal favourite although I may be biased since it was the creation of my eldest, I just loved her little wheelbarrow!