In the spirit of autumn and solving mysteries, Scooby-Doo makes an appearance for a remake of a Traditional intervention named ‘Old Dog Blue’.

This intervention can help work on expressive and/or receptive color identification, joint attention, matching, turn taking, and fine motor skills.

Print off this black and white clipart of a puppy, you will want two puppies for each color. Go ahead and laminate them too, because we all know there is a good chance these puppies are going to get bent and chewed on!

Pass out the dogs with whatever transition song you like to use. This would be a great opportunity to incorporate a transition song during which you sing the colors, perhaps ‘ Brown Bear’ but instead saying the color of the dog “Red dog red dog what do you see? I see a Yellow dog looking at me…”

The lyrics are very similar to the original Scooby-Doo theme song! The first verse is the same.
Here are the chords that repeat for the entire song {A, Bm, E, A}

Scooby Dooby-Doo where are you?

We’ve got some work to do now

Scooby Dooby-Doo where are you?

We need some help from you now

Now replace the work YOU with the color that you want them too look for.

Scooby Dooby-Doo where is BLUE?

We’ve got some work to do now

Scooby Dooby-Doo where is BLUE?

We need some help from you now

[Stop] Who has BLUE!?

The children are matching the dog they have with the one you will be holding (a pre-reading and pre-writing skill). The little ones will also be identifying colors receptively by holding up the green or using their words or sign to indicate that they have purple. Finally, your group will be turn taking and working on joint attention by attending to the dog you have and the color of dogs their peers have in the group.

After the kids have solved the mystery of matching colors sing the final verse!

Scooby Dooby-Doo where here are you

You’re ready and you’re willing

If we can count on you Scooby-Doo

I know we’ll find the colors [3X] 
{Alternate between chords E & A}