Toddler color fun: yellow

See our yellow pail here.

Take a look at other fun activities we've done with color pails:

Red color pail fun

Green color pail fun

Blue color pail fun

Orange color pail fun
Purple color pail fun 

Yellow seek-and-find

The weather has forced us to do our color seek-and-finds inside.  Boo!  It's not quite as fun, but I can tell that Little Lady is really getting the hang of our game.  
I placed some yellow items around the porch and asked, "Where are the yellow things?" She did her cute little turn-her-palms-up-and-raise-her-voice-like-a-question thing.  It didn't take her long at all to spot the items.  

Once she found a yellow item, I told her to put them in the yellow color pail.  With lots of coaxing and then rounds of applause at first, she was soon snatching up the yellow items and trotting them over to the color pail on her own!

We played...many, many, many rounds of this.  Actually toward the end I was hiding the items and then going into the kitchen to start lunch while she hunted them down.  As soon as she had them in the pail, she popped her head into the kitchen as a sign for me to hide the things again! 

Yellow pasta drop 

 We are still thoroughly enjoying the colored pasta we made last spring.  I pulled out some of the yellow pasta one day and let Little Lady explore.
Transferring: 

Scooping:

Examining:

Dumping:

She also tried eating them but I have no photos as I was trying to stop that activity.  I had fun sending the yellow pasta down our little slide on the porch but by this time, Little Lady was distracted by her monkey finger puppets.  Again.  

Yellow art
Despite various yellow crayons, colored pencils, and markers for her drawing pleasure, Little Lady had more fun peeling and sticking stickers to her page.  

Yellow art activity: fail (most of the artwork on the page is mine!).

Small motor skills for peeling and placing the stickers: major success (she did all but three of those stickers entirely by herself). 

Yellow slide
With a ratty old cookie sheet propped up against the couch, we tried to have our yellow items take a fast trip down the slide.  The yellow cars especially made a cool sound.  

 But... Little Lady really had more fun having me stuff our yellow items in the ottoman so she could yank them out.

Yellow line

One day during morning nap I put all our yellow items in a line on the porch.  I didn't really have a goal for this activity, I just wanted to see what Little Lady did when she saw the items arranged in a new way.  

When she saw the line-up she pointed and said a bunch of exciting gibberish.  She then proceeded to take a few items out of the line, examine and play with them, and then put them back in the line.  After a while she walked back and forth through the line and messed it up.  Then, she put everything in the pail and took it to the one step that leads up into the kitchen where she sat on the step and dropped everything one-by-one from the pail off the step.  As she did all these things, I was talking to her and making sure to use the word "yellow" a lot! 

So, the yellow line was just a new way to play with our yellow things again, but we had fun and giggled a little.