Name of Activity:. The Color Story (by Natalie Ghosh)

Category:. : Art Smart

Props: Box of crayons, white paper, binder or construction paper and a stapler for book cover

Your Role: Travel guide and Historian

Directions: Ask the child to pick out any crayon from the box. Focus on the color that they pick and encourage them to recall an object that they have seen today which was that same exact color. Ask them where they saw the object and what they were doing when they saw it. Them let them draw that object with the crayon on the paper. Continue doing this with several colors, putting each object on a separate piece of paper. Finally, try to organize all of the pictures into a book according to the child's events of the day and produce a story.

Goals for You: Your job is to help the child recall memory images and to capture those images on paper to create an art piece.

Goals for Children: Rewind back to the episodes of the day and see if they can freeze-frame on a particular object. Once they have developed an image, see if they can capture this image on paper. Then see if they can organize all the different images by fast forwarding through the episodes of the day.

Possible Strategy:

What to say "Pick out any crayon that you like. What color is that crayon? Can you think of something that you saw today that was that color? Do you remember where you saw it and what you were doing when you saw it? '`

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Possible Shaping:

What to say "Now let's see if you can take the object that you remember in your head and draw it on the paper with the same color crayon."

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Possible Ending:

What to say: "Great job. These are all wonderful pictures. Let's see if we can put all these pictures together in a book and make a story out of your day today."

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