My Many Colored Days Collages

What color are your feelings today?

This simple question opens the door to meaningful conversations with young children and that’s exactly why My Many Colored Days craft activities are so powerful in early learning. Inspired by Dr. Seuss, these creative collage invitations help children explore emotions, colors, and self-expression in a hands-on way.

In this post, I’m sharing one of our favorite Dr. Seuss My Many Colored Days activities along with easy ideas you can use in your preschool classroom or child care setting.

We’ve been focusing on how to make friends and learning about our feelings with Experience Preschool Curriculum‘s Friends & Feelings kit for September 2018. One of the suggested books from the book list is My Many Colored Days. I love this book by Dr. Seuss! Applying a color to how we feel is another way to learn about feelings and express ourselves. See our My Many Colored Days Collages, display, and related sad and color blue activities. 

My Many Colored Days Craft for Preschool

My Many Colored Days is a simple but powerful book for exploring feelings with young children. It’s a short board book but it captures the children’s attention, describes feelings wonderfully and provides an opportunity to further discuss feelings. I can’t say I’m a big fan of Dr. Seuss (shhh, don’t tell!) but I love this book.

To create this My Many Colored Days craft, provide black paper, glue, and a variety of bright collage materials.

We used craft foam cut into shapes, large buttons and feathers.

Some days are yellow. Some days are blue. On different days I’m different too.

My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss

After creating the collages, we personalized them with each child’s photo. Super cute!

The collages are bright and fun for a class display.

BONUS ACTIVITY: Try pairing this activity with a mirror so children can observe their expressions as they talk about feelings. It adds another layer of self-awareness and connection. Also, check out these color activities.

Why My Many Colored Days Activities Matter in Preschool

This is why my many colored days activities continue to be a favorite in early childhood classrooms.

Activities like this help children connect colors to emotions in a meaningful, hands-on way. Through simple materials and open-ended exploration, children learn that their feelings matter and that they can express them creatively.

Learning About Feeling Sad

Lesson #7 from the Experience Preschool Curriculum‘s Friends & Feelings kit is all about feeling sad. 

Playing the shape game. I love all the shape and color activities dispersed throughout the monthly materials. Many of the games can be played independently (I put them out as a center) or with a small group. 

Painting Blue

After looking around the room for something that’s blue and pointing to it with the blue crayon, we painted with two shades of blue.

Our blue paintings – we used two shades of blue paint. An easy way to explore colors!

Make & Play Mirrors

The craft included in the Experience Preschool Curriculum‘s Friends & Feelings kit is little handheld mirror. The little mirrors are made with simple supplies – craft sticks for handles, colored paper, and mirrored card stock. Each child decorated their mirror as desired with markers, glue and glitter. This one is easy to duplicate yourself with the linked materials.

Sad, Mad or Glad? I Can Read Books

These *awesome* I Can Read books from Experience Curriculum focus on a few sight words and coordinate with the monthly theme. Word pointers are included so the children can look through their books and find words. Little readers in the making! 

We also read the book May Feels Sad from the My Feelings series from Scholastic.

Learning about feelings through colors is so fun! Check out these free Friends and Feelings STEAM Station ideas for adding open-ended, child-led play to your environment!