Toddler Time with Amethyst - Color Explorers Week 3
About Toddler Time
Toddler Time with Amethyst is a weekly play-based early childhood program at Kidzeum designed specifically for children ages 1–3 and their caregivers. Each session is thoughtfully designed to support the whole child, weaving together art, sensory play, fine motor development, music, and movement into an experience that is both joyful and intentional.
Every session follows a warm, predictable rhythm that helps toddlers feel safe and ready to engage. We begin with a Welcome Song where we greet each child by name and find one another in the group. This is a simple ritual that builds connection and helps little ones settle into the group. From there, we move into a movement activity to get our bodies ready, then dive into the guided activity at the heart of each session. We close every session with a Goodbye Song that signals a safe, celebrated transition.
Each month of Toddler Time carries its own theme, and April is all about Color Explorers. Over four weeks, children will discover the world through the colors red, blue, yellow, and green — using each color as a playful entry point into sensory learning, early concepts, and creative expression.
Toddler Time with Amethyst is a weekly early childhood program at Kidzeum designed specifically for children ages 1–3. Each session is thoughtfully structured to support the whole child, weaving together art, sensory play, fine motor development, music, and movement into a cohesive experience that is both joyful and intentional.
Every session follows a warm, predictable rhythm that young children thrive on: we begin with a Welcome Song where we greet each child by name and find one another in the group — a relational practice that encourages focus and belonging. From there, we move into a movement activity to get our bodies ready, then dive into the guided activity at the heart of the day. We close every session with a Goodbye Song that signals a safe, celebrated transition.
Each month of Toddler Time carries its own theme, and April is all about Color Explorers. Over four weeks, children will discover the world through the colors red, blue, yellow, and green — using each color as a playful entry point into art-making, sensory discovery, and early learning.
Toddler Time is free with museum admission. Children who participate in all four sessions will receive a Color Explorers Certificate of Completion, a special keepsake celebrating everything they explored, created, and discovered.
Color of the Week: Yellow!🟡
Session Theme: Sunshine, Sunflowers & Happy Yellow Things
Yellow is the color of sunshine, dandelions, bananas, and big happy feelings — and this week, Toddler Time is absolutely flooded with it. Week three celebrates yellow through sensory art, a sunflower craft, and a movement activity inspired by the sun itself. This session also introduces the beginnings of color mixing: what happens when yellow and blue meet? (Spoiler: green is coming next week!)
Welcome Song (~5 min) Amethyst opens with a sunshine-themed welcome, greeting each child with: “Good morning, [name] — you’re our sunshine today!” Each child receives a small yellow sticker as they arrive.
Movement Activity (~8 min) Sun Salutation for Toddlers. Amethyst leads a simplified, playful movement sequence inspired loosely by yoga sun salutations — reaching up tall like a sunflower growing, spinning like a sun, melting down slowly like a sunset. This builds body awareness, sequencing, and vocabulary (“up,” “down,” “tall,” “round”).
Guided Activity (~25 min) Yellow Sponge Painting. Children create sunshine paintings using round sponge stamps, yellow and orange paint on blue paper. The combination of blue paper and yellow paint also sets up a beautiful visual conversation about color contrast. Amethyst narrates the process, pointing out how the yellow looks “bright” against the blue.
Color Mixing Preview (~5 min) Amethyst introduces a “what happens when?” moment: drops of yellow and blue food coloring are mixed in a clear cup of water together as a group, revealing green. This builds anticipation for next week and introduces early scientific thinking.
Sensory Component: A yellow sensory bin with corn kernels, yellow craft feathers, small rubber ducks, and measuring cups offers tactile exploration. The sound and feel of corn kernels is a particularly rich sensory experience for toddlers.
Goodbye Song (~5 min) Closing with warmth and sunshine energy, children leave with their sun paintings and a little yellow to carry into the week.
Take-Home Activity: Families take home a “Sunshine Scavenger Hunt” sheet — a simple picture-based list of yellow things to find at home and outside. The parent tip sheet this week focuses on how to use nature walks as a rich, free learning environment for toddlers.
A Note from Amethyst
“Yellow is such an emotional color for toddlers — it’s sunshine, it’s bananas, it’s their favorite cup they insist on every morning. When we root color learning in things they already love, we’re strengthening those neural connections in a really natural way. And the color‑mixing moment? I can’t help myself — I love sneaking in a little science. You can literally watch their whole face light up the second green appears. It’s pure, unfiltered wonder.”
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