the colors to the numbers, advance the task with a "do-it-yourself" task. give the students a simple coloring sheet. write on a white board an index of numbers for colors. for example, 1= blue, 2= yellow, 3 = red. after the students have colored the sheets, have them fill in the number of the colors they used. if a child colored a hat yellow, they would place a number "2" in the hat. 