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Blueberries For Sal by Robert McCloskey

To introduce the children to the color blue: ask each child to wear anything blue and ask them to bring a toy bear. Tell the children that since they all brought a bear that it must be time for berry picking and then you can make berry buckets. Before the children arrive hide blueberry snacks around in the room such as: blueberry cereal bars, blueberry poptarts, blue berries in a plastic zip lock bag, ect.

Berry Buckets

Take a white paper bag and fold down several inches of the closed bag. Cut a half circle shape through all thicknesses. Unfold and flatten out. Have each child paint a green bush on the front of the bag. To make the blueberries, take a pencil eraser and dip in blue paint.

While the paint is drying read the story "Blueberries For Sal" When the paint dries ask each child to get his or her bear that it is time to go hunting. For a special snack that day we each make our own blueberry muffins. The recipe is on my recipe page.

 

Blues Clues

Calendar:

Make paw prints and color them blue. Put numbers from 1-31 on each paw and use them for you calendar.

Make large blue paw prints and have you own blues clues game by putting the paw prints around the room.

Go to the Nick Jr. site and print out your own Handy Dandy Notebook.

Make Blue’s Jigglers. Recipe on my recipe page.

 

I Spy Something Blue

Have each child decorate a cardborad tube with blue decorations or just paint it blue. Let them use the tube as a spyglass to look around the room for blue objects.