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• My Yellow Car is a wonderful song for exploring colors. Use it as a part of your colors theme to introduce color vocabulary or to review colors. It can be used with other songs about colors, like What’s Your Favorite Color? and I See Something Blue.
• This is also a great song to explore fruits and vegetable vocabulary, or to use in a theme about food. It can be used to introduce vocabulary or for review. It can be used along with other songs about food like, Are You Hungry? and Apples And Bananas!
• In this song, each color is represented by a kind of fruit or vegetable.Try giving your students some fruit and vegetable props to sort into colors. They can be real food items, toy food, or even food flashcards. Have your students match the food items to the correct color, or sort them into different colors.
• For a fun and active activity, place a basket of colorful fruits and vegetables on a desk at the front of the classroom. Have students each take a turn standing up and pick a color for their car and what they want from the basket. “I’m going for a ride in my purple car, I’m going to buy some grapes!” The color of the item they pick should match the color of their car. Then have them come up to the basket, pick up the item and go back to their desk. Continue until everyone has had a turn or until the basket is empty.
• You can also have your students go on a color hunt around the room using the same idea – each student has to pretend to drive around the room in a certain color car and find something that matches.
• For more vocabulary practice, hold up pictures of different colored cars (or toy cars). Ask your students what they can buy if they were driving this car and see how many things they can come up with that are that color. You don’t have to limit yourself to food items in this game – let them be creative and silly!
• Role play going to the store and buying something. This song is a great introduction to the concept of money and teaching children about shopping for items.

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• Use this song to explore sweets when teaching a food theme.
• This is a great song to help celebrate a birthday. Sing the song using the birthday child’s name! Tell them it’s a special birthday cake then pretend to blow out the candles.
• You can use any name when you are singing this song to spell any word! Pick a word to spell and make the cakes, marking them with the different letters to spell the word. You can use your student’s names to mark each cake. For an added challenge, pause before you say the name and have your students jump in with someone’s name that starts with the correct letter. For example, ‘roll it, and pat it, and mark it with an M…’ Whose name starts with M? Margret! Yes, Marget’s name starts with the letter M! ‘Put it in the oven for Margret and me!’
• Use our ABC flashcards to place the letters on the board as you sing the song, then ask your students what word it spells. For older students, have them write down the letters on a piece of paper to find out what word it spells.
• This song also has great clapping movements you can do on your own or with a partner. Students can sing the song using their own names as they do the clapping gestures.
• Bring out some play bowls and spoons and pretend to make a cake! Ask your students what ingredients belong in the cake. They can watch the video for some clues, or you can ask them about specific ingredients. Try being silly and suggesting wrong ingredients, like broccoli, for some giggles.
• Try making a cake craft, or drawing! Each student can mark their cake with the first letter of their name. Then use all of the class’s cakes to spell different words!

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