We love, love, love rainbow bears!! Every time we change out the activities on our shelves we have to have a new rainbow bear activity or two or three… This month will we have all sorts of rainbow bear fun, starting with this free printable rainbow bear graph activity for colors. My daughter loved rolling the printable cube and finding the matching colored bears to put on the graph, so I’ll be making use of her enthusiasm to repeat this graphing activity a few times!
Materials needed for the Rainbow Bear Graph for Colors:
Paper
Tape
Scissors
It is totally optional to laminate, but I laminate everything that we plan to use more than once. Otherwise, it gets all creased and messy with my daughter’s excitement. I just placed an order for 400 more Scotch laminating pouches tonight, so that we can continue with our fun activities!!
To prep: Print and laminate the rainbow bear graph page. Print, cut out and assemble the rainbow bear cube. This easy prep is well worth your time once you see the excited look on the kids’ faces!
To use: Roll the cube. Add one rainbow bear with the matching color to the correct column on the graph.
You can try a few different goals:
What does the graph look like after 12 rolls?
How many rolls does it take to get one color to reach the top of the graph?
If we use the graph more than one time, do we get the same results?
With Shiloh, my main goal was to help her with color recognition and sorting into columns of the graph. You will be surprised at how easily kids can grasp the purpose of the columns on the graph! I didn’t have to explain to her more than to point out the colored bears on the bottom before we started the activity.
We’re still working on color names, so I made sure to repeat the colors every time she rolled, picked up a bear, and placed a bear.
“You rolled a blue bear.”
“You put the purple bear on the graph.”
You have a yellow bear.”
What seems so silly and repetitious to us as adults is extremely important for language development. Kids need to hear words repeated, especially when they have a concrete object to refer to such as a rainbow bear.
Click Here to Get the Rainbow Bear Graph
Need more Rainbow Bear activities? Check out the Rainbow Bear Preschool Mega Pack!!
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L says
Hello! I tried to get the Rainbow Bear Graph free printable. I put in my email and push “send me the printable”. The cursor just kept spinning and did not complete the task. Can you tell me what I need to do to receive this printable? This is only one of many useful and well thought out resources you provide. Thank you for all you do, L
Kim Staten says
I’m not sure what the problem was. Sometimes it can get stuck if the internet connection is not strong enough. I am sending you the activity now.
Mary McCarty says
I am a teacher of preschool/pre-k and kindergarten in a Montessori school. My school is putting together packets for virtual learning and having virtual gatherings for instruction. This would be a cool activity to send to my kids IF it did not rely on having the teddy bears. Any possibility of amending it to include a sheet or two of colored bears to use in place of the actual bears?
Kim Staten says
Due to the free nature of the activity, I am not able to make additional adjustments to it. I would suggest having the kids color the boxes on the graph or using small objects that they have at home to fill the graph.