Our Rhythm: Colors and Activities

We're enjoying a few days of rest and relaxation here at Rockin' Granola. In the meantime, I've preloaded some posts to keep you company over the next few days.

When I refer to our weekly rhythm, I'm generally talking about two things:  the color of the day and our daily activities.

Colors of the Day
This is an idea from Waldorf that I first read about in A Little Garden Flower's Kindergarten curriculum book.  We've been following the Colors of the Day for years.  I started to incorporate it when  looking for ways to gently and easily create a rhythm.  Color has certainly been easy to include into our days.

The rhythm of the colors of the day looks like this:

Sunday - white 

Monday - purple

Tuesday - red (or pink)

Wednesday - yellow

Thursday - orange

Friday - green

Saturday - blue

You can read more about how we use the Colors of the Day in this post.

Activities
When I was in elementary school, I can remember knowing what day of the week it was by what activity we had in school that day - music, art, gym, etc.  I knew that the comfort of those rhythms was something I wanted to offer my own children in our homeschool environment.

We have had a weekly painting day at our house since Jillian was a toddler. Over the years we have added in other daily activities, mainly based around Little Acorn Learning's monthly guides. 

Last year, I also began include a fine motor skills day after noticing the positive effect it has, not only for my younger children, but also for my oldest.  As Jillian's finger strength and dexterity improves, I have found that so has her handwriting.

Our activities rhythm looks like this:

Monday - cooking and baking

Tuesday - watercolor painting

Wednesday - coloring

Thursday - fine motor skills

Friday - practical life and homekeeping
Saturday - library 

These activities can certainly (and do) happen at other times during the week, too (coloring for certain happens on a daily basis around here) but this is our designated pattern and I make sure that we do these activities on their assigned day.

A color a day and one activity per day have been easy layers to add in to my family's rhythm.  

I hope this post has given you some inspiration if you're looking for simple ways to add rhythm to your days with young children.