Emotions and Colours

The children in the Banksia Room have been exploring the idea that colours can reflect how you feel. The concept of creating shades of the emotion colours has presented an interesting challenge.

Each child has been involved in mixing the colour from their ‘team’. The class decided that yellow for happy, red for angry, indigo for scared, blue for sad and pink for surprised would represent the feelings of their puppets. Small amounts of white and one colour allowed the children to experiment, adding varying amounts. Each day the new colours and their shades were shared as the children discussed what they might mean in that emotion. At the easel, the focus has been on the same colours in paint and paper. The story, My Many Coloured Days by Dr Seuss has also launched conversations on this topic.

We will continue to explore these concepts to further the children’s understanding in this area and create a visual display of their work in the classroom that will be referred to as the ‘Banksia Code for Emotions.’

Axel Ashton paints with emotion colours.

Natalia Rojas Serrano explores how colours represent emotions.