Colours for Kids

Working on short verses that represent each colour to those who are very young

Cherry

Colours for Kids 4)

Snow newly fallen, and milk in the cup, a fresh piece of paper before …

Colours for Kids 5)

… pretty pink blossom of a cherry tree drifting down like pink-petal snow …
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Cherry

Colours for Kids 7)

Blackcurrant* squash and deep purple pansies, Teletubbies’ Tinky winky, purple ‘red*’ cabbage, the velvet of the queen’s crown, – and the mountain...

Colours for Kids 8)

Grey school trousers, skirts and socks, grey rain clouds, and seaside rocks, grey knives and forks, and grandad’s hair, roads and pavements...
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Colours for Kids 9)

Oranges and clementines, satsumas too, carrots for dinner or a snack to chew, orange goldfish in a bowl swim round and round, traffic cones with...
Cherry

Colours for Kids 10)

Coal and soot and the sky at night (before the moon has risen to shed some light), the patches on a panda, dark stripes across the zebra, the telly...
Cherry

Colours for Kids 11)

Bananas and daffodils, egg yolk and butter …

Hobbes

Oranges are orange and so is marmalade … Hobbes, like the boy’s tiger-toy in the popular American comic-strips*. * Calvin and Hobbes’
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