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

1. Lime green & forest green

2. Mauve & dark purple

3. Hot pink & baby pink

4. Baby blue & ultramarine

5. 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

1. A hat

2. A cloak

3. 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

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Thank you for reading. Have a fabulous Halloween.

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