Fairy Tales- Mix and Match Colour Words Practice

Fairy tales mix and match colour words practice

Instructions for teachers

There are three versions of this activity. The first one is given on one page to save paper and photocopying. The second is on cards to make it more flexible and to make matching up a more physical activity. However, the mix or match activity is usually best if done as a whole book, with each page cut into flaps which are turned separately to make good and bad matches. This makes it similar to the many mix and match books in which the reader makes people, monsters, etc with odd matches of head, body and legs, or something like the classic book Do You Like Ketchup on Your Cornflakes? In this case there is also an actual story with a beginning, middle and end. To make a whole story, the top flaps of each page should be used in the order they are in (“Once upon a time, in a land far away that is famous for its…”, then “there was a prince with a…”, etc). However, the other flaps can be used in any order and any combination, depending on whether the readers want to make a sensible story or a silly story. Each flap has at least one sensible match and at least one silly match.

To make a book, you need to staple the pages together on one side, then cut along the dotted lines.

After reading, children could draw suitable pictures on their own copy of the book. To save time, it’s best if the colours are just a small bubble on each page (rather than colouring in the whole flap). The colour “white” can be done with just a bubble with nothing in it, or they can colour round a white bubble in black to emphasize the lack of colour. If you want to save time and photocopying, another option is for each kid to draw one picture of their favourite combination, instead of drawing pictures for every page.

They could also make their own versions of this mix and match activity, perhaps keeping the same starters but changing the colours and/ or objects, or just adding other options to the one-page version. The activity should also work with science fiction stories.

They could also write out their favourite matches and then perhaps draw pictures for them, maybe in a normal book format (without cut flaps to turn).

 

Colour words fairy tales

Single page version

Read the phrases in the left-hand column in the order given, adding any words from the other two columns that you like each time.

Once upon a time, in a land far away that was famous for its   there was a prince with a   and a   who went out one day to find the famous princess with a   However, on the way the prince met a   who lived in a   The prince won a quick and bloody fight using his   The prince found a   and used that to get over the   On the other side he found what he was looking for in a   So they went back to the prince’s   And they all lived happily together in a beautiful

black brown colourless dark blue gold green grey pink purple red ruby red silver

castle cave city dress horse monster river room rope shield sky sword

 

Cards version

Take turns putting colour and object cards together with the numbered starters to make a (silly or not) story.

1.     Once upon a time, in a land far away that was famous for its
2.     there was a prince with a
3.     and a
4.     who went out one day to find the famous princess with a
5.     However, on the way the prince met a
6.     who lived in a
7.     The prince won a quick and bloody fight using his
8.     The prince found a
9.     and used that to get over the
10.  On the other side he found what he was looking for in a
11.  So they went back to the prince’s
12.  And they all lived happily together in a beautiful
black	blue		brown		colourless
dark blue	dark green		gold		green
grey	light blue		light green		multi-coloured…
pink	purple		red		ruby red
silver	yellow		… and…		…, … and …
armour		book of spells		broomstick
castle		cave		city
cottage		crown		dragon
dress		fairy		flying carpet
guard		horse		king
ladder		lake		magic…
monster		ogre		palace
pond		princess		queen
ring		river		room
rope		secret…		shield
sky		soldier		spear
staircase		stream		sword
throne		tower		village
wand		witch		wizard

 

Book version

Turn the flaps to add colours and objects to each step of the story, including silly matches if you like. 

 

 

 

Once upon a time, in a land far away that was famous for its

 

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black

 

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castle

 

 

 

 

 

there was a prince with a

 

 

 

 

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brown

 

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cave

 

 

 

 

and a

 

 

 

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colourless

 

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city

 

 

 

who went out one day to find the famous princess

with a

 

 

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dark blue

 

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dress

 

 

 

However, on the way the prince met a

 

 

 

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gold

 

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horse

 

 

 

 

who lived in a

 

 

 

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green

 

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monster

 

 

 

The prince won a quick and bloody fight using his

 

 

 

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grey

 

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river

 

 

 

 

The prince found a

 

 

 

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pink

 

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room

 

 

 

 

 

and used that to get over the

 

 

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purple

 

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rope

 

 

 

 

On the other side he found what he was looking for in a

 

 

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red

 

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shield

 

 

 

 

So they went back to the prince’s

 

 

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ruby red

 

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sky

 

 

 

And they all lived happily together in a beautiful

 

 

 

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silver

 

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sword