Terrific Twos: The Color PURPLE

We continue our color theme this week at Terrific Twos with PURPLE! Remember all the great reasons to introduce colors to your young child:

• Colors can be useful
• Colors can be expressive
• Colors help children learn new words
• Colors help children identify objects and feelings
• Colors allow children to make visual connections with words

 Best of all, colors are a fun concept to help your child Get Ready to Read!


If You Like the Color Purple Song
If you like the color purple, clap your hands.
If you like the color purple, clap your hands.
If you like the color purple, if you like the color purple,
If you like the color purple, clap your hands. 
Stamp Your Feet and Shout Hooray!

Purple Pickle Song
If I had a purple penny or a purple nickle,
I'd go down to the purple store and buy a purple pickle.
Purple pickles, purple peas, purple pepperoni, purple pudding,
purple pie, and purple macaroni!

If I had a purple penny or a purple nickle,
I'd go down to the purple store and buy a purple pickle.
Purple pickles, purple peas, purple pepperoni, purple pudding,
purple pie, and purple macaroni!

Five Little Umbrellas (thanks to our friends at King County Library System)
Five little umbrellas by the back door,
The red one went outside & now there are four.
Four little umbrellas, pretty as can be,
The blue one was needed & now there are three.
Three little umbrellas, oh, they missed the blue,
So, the green one followed & now there are two.
Two little umbrellas, glad there was no sun,
The yellow one went into the rain & now there’s just one.
One little umbrella, all alone in the hall,
The purple one got picked up & that was all!

Stories we read in this week's Terrific Twos:

My Crayons Talk by Patricia Hubbard
Brown crayon sings "Play, Mud pie day," and Blue crayon calls "Sky, Swing so high" in this story about talking crayons.
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Purple is Best by Dana Meachen Rau
Sue's blue paint and Fred's red paint get mixed together and create purple, the best color of all.
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Check out these other books about the color PURPLE:

Harold and the Purple Crayon by by Crockett Johnson
Harold's purple crayon helps him create wonderful adventures as he walks in the moonlight. 
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Purple as a plum = Morado como una ciruela by Molly Dingle
Simple text and illustrations introduce the color purple and objects that bear that color. / Los cuadros y el texto dan los ejemplos de las cosas que son moradas.
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The Perfect Purple Feather by Hanoch Piven
Rhyming text and illustrations take the reader on a journey, in which a simple purple feather becomes a whisker for a cat, a pen for an owl, a quill for a porcupine, and more.
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