For pupils working at Early Level this may be a simple (MNU) matching activity. For pupils working at First Level and beyond, this could be the context for learning in Literacy or EXA.
Instructions
- With pupils working individually or in pairs, pupils take an object from indoors (a pencil, an eraser, paint brush, plastic container ….) and see if they can find an object outdoors to match its colour OR pupils work with a paint colour sample card from a DIY store and find how many matching or similar colours they can find.
- Encourage pupils working from First Level on to describe the colours in words (‘What sort of blue?’ ‘What does it remind you of?’) so that pupils descriptive skills are extended and can be developed into simile(‘It’s a yellow as an egg yolk.’ )
- Look at objects closely (use a magnifier if possible) and identify the many different colours in a single object. A stick is rarely just brown!
- Once back indoors, ask pupils to write their colour descriptions on pieces of paper that can be pasted into a class book or added to a display. Along with photographs taken at the time, the descriptions can be used in future pieces of writing or spoken presentations.
To develop the work into an EXA activity, challenge pupils to mix paints (provide only red, blue, yellow, white and black paints) to match their found objects.
Extend further by asking pupils to create a painting using the colours found and created.
