Last week, I read Grey by Laura Dockrill & Lauren Child with P1/2, P3/4 and P5/6 and gave them different activities to do afterwards.

I encouraged P1/2  to think about things that made them feel “grey” and what would make them feel “colourful”.  Some reasons for feeling grey were: being told no, hurting themselves, being alone, getting shouted at and when it’s raining.

Things that made them feel colourful: going on holiday, playing with friends, playing on the swings, football, being with family and sunny days.

P3/4 were tasked with thinking about how they were feeling today and putting that feeling into a colour.  We had a lot of blue, tired P3/4s on this day. Many associated red with love and safe, blue with tired and sad, green and yellow with happy and excited.

P5/6 had the job of coming up with names for colours, they had free choice of what word they could use to describe the colours.  It was very interesting to see the words picked, some matched the first letter of the colour and other were just describing the colour and how it made them feel.

Pumpkin orange, rose red, perfect purple, blue blueberry, grey moon, black night, mud brown, yummy yellow, purple monster under my bed and boring blue.