Parents may want to read the story again with the children or invite the children to tell them the story, using their own home-made monsters from last week’s resources. Recap on the story of ‘The Colour Monster’. They might even want to create a new pink perfume! For some ideas of how to get started and the possibilities, these websites might be helpful. All they need now is some soil and water to start cooking! For the adventurous, they might want to mix in some jelly, glitter, spaghetti or even some shaving foam to experiment with different textures. Time to get creative outside (weather permitting) – why not create a mud kitchen to allow the children to explore natural resources as they invent new and wonderful recipes for an outdoor café! Ask the children to collect leaves, pine cones, petals and flowers whilst they are outside. Remind them to show how their Monster is feeling through the colours chosen. The children could do this through junk modelling, playdoh (homemade recipe – ), paper mache (recipe – ) or if they would prefer to draw the Monster, this link to different Monster templates might help. Now it’s time to make their own Colour Monster. What colours can they create and what feelings do they link with their new colours? Let’s explore colour some more through messy play! The children might like to experiment with paint or water and food dye by mixing colours to see what new colours they can make. Alternatively, they could draw them into different jars using this template - Īs an extension activity, the discussion could also focus on what things help when they are feeling sad, afraid or angry.

They might even want to put the different pictures into separate jars or containers, just like the Colour Monster. Now invite the children to draw a picture of all these things in the relevant colour. Talk about the things which make the children feel happy, sad, angry, fearful and calm and loved. It might help to have a friend, older brother or sister or a trusted adult help the child to sort out their feelings at those times, just like the Colour Monster and the little girl. Sometimes we can feel a bit mixed up like the Colour Monster. Invite the children to discuss their feelings. There are some questions in the clip after the story which might help to scaffold a discussion around the story. Introduce the story, ‘The Colour Monster’ by Anna Llenas or listen to it being read here.

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