Meg's Halloween Clothes

Meg has been invited to a Halloween party. Meg is fed up. She always wears black.
Her black stockings
Her big black shoes
Her long black cloak
Her tall black hat
Meg wants to try some new colours. Can you help her? Come & learn some really cool & beautiful colour words to help Meg.

Activity one
Identify different colours in the room
clothes
toys
stationary
food
plants
soft furnishings
Brain storm colours & record
Activity two
Sorting pens/pencils/crayons by basic colour
Sort into basic groups of colour- red blue green yellow pink etc
Choose one colour group E.g blue
Look at the pencils & crayons in the blue group
Are they all the same?
Elicit further colour vocabulary E.g light/dark/pale/bright/pearly/shiny/flourescent etc
Organize the blues from lightest to darkest
Record all new blue words
Activity three
New colour vocabulary
To understand that all colours have their own special name
You need paper/material samples of light & dark colours
E.g
Lime green & forest green
Mauve & dark purple
Hot pink & baby pink
Baby blue & ultramarine
Fire engine red & scarlet
Beautiful Colour cards for your little ones
Contact us for your free printables

Match the crayon/pencil with the correct colour scrap
Everybody writes the name of the colour using the correct colour pencil/crayon on a large piece of card
Display on the wall
Activity four
Part 1
Investigate new colour language
Put children into favourite colour groups
Each group collects their favourite colour crayons & pencils
Organize the crayons/pencils from lightest to darkest
What do you think they are called? Make up & their own colour names
I wonder what other people call these colour? Discuss
How can we find out? Discuss
Activity five
Compare their colour names with standard names
Share a selection of books/make-up adverts/brochures/paint charts/closed paint tubes/recipes/seed & flower catalogues/ fashion catelogues/wall paper charts/ colour charts/colour wheels/websites etc
Find out the name of the pencils/crayons colours
Compare with your own colour names. Are any similar/same/totally different?
Each group reports back to the class
Which names do you like best & why?
Write the new colours onto the large piece of card from activity three
Activity six
Make a colourful Halloween costume game
Help Meg decide which colours to wear

Each child
Chooses a 4 different colours/shades/tones
Collects the matching paints/crayons/pencils/felt pens
Has 4 photocopies of Meg's costume sheet
Fills in the hat, cloak, shoes & stockings (use one colour per sheet)
Writes the name of the colour 3 times (once by the hat/cloak/ & shoes)
Cut along each dotted line
Play the game
4 students
4x4 =16 cards
Game one
Turn all cards face down on the table
Take turns to turn over one card
If it is your card keep it
Winner= the 1st child to find all his/her cards
Game two
Turn all cards face down on the table
Take turns turn over one card
You need to find in this order
A hat
A cloak
The stockings & shoes
Can be any colour
Winner = the child with the most completed costumes
Discuss which colour combinations look good
Draw & describe your favourite combination for Meg

Thank you for reading. Have a fabulous Halloween.
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