Using Koloron to teach boys and girls 3-5 years old, choose an activity

Use our Tabards and cover them all over in bright flowers.
Choose the right colours and paint.
Stand all in a line to be a hedgerow or a formal flower display.
What colours go best together?
Change around and try different colour combinations.
Exploring and matching the colour of flowers

Activity title: Fields of flowers
Project: Colour
Age Range:3-5 years
Activity Number:0004
Subject area: Art/Painting (links with Science)

Be a car, a lorry or a bus and paint a Tabard or a Top to show
people what you are. Show good road safety sense and drive carefully.
Use your horn and indicators to let people know what you are going to
do. Take a simple driving test. This involves role-play to stimulate language
and extend children's knowledge and understanding of road safety.

Activity title: Driving what? Driving how?
Project: Be safe on the road
Age Range:3-5 years
Activity Number:0017
Subject area: Language, Art, number and knowledge
& understanding of the world

Choose your letter and wear it each day. Bring something
in each day that your letter begins with. Paint pictures of them
on your Top. When you are the beginning of a word you are important.
There are lots of things that will begin with your letter. Be a detective
and try to find them.

Activity title: Be a letter - be a word
Project: None
Age Range:3-5 years
Activity Number:0013
Subject area: Language and literacy

It's fun to be your friend. Paint your friend on your Tabard
and let them paint you. Why is your friend, your friend?
What makes a friend?

Activity title: Paint your friend
Project: Myself and others
Age Range:3-5 years
Activity Number:0011
Subject area: Language, Art and personal,
social and emotional development (PSE)

Paint what you want to be and then become what you have
painted. You could be a doll, a teddy bear or even a queen.
Paint yourself to be different. Tell everyone what kind of person
you are, what you do and where you live. This activity involves
role-play and explores the language and behaviour of others.

Activity title: Paint yourself to be different
Project: Myself and others
Age Range:3-5 years
Activity Number:0014
Subject area: Language, Art and personal,
social and emotional development (PSE)

Dressing up allows children to act out different
situations and to role play different people.
It can be an individual or group activity. Everybody
can become the character of their choice. It is fun to
use a big box of remnants or offcuts that stick to
Velcro dots. Hang whatever you can find on to your
Playsuit - don't forget hats and other accessories
when stocking your box.

Activity title: Ragtime
Project: Not connected
Age Range:3-5 years
Activity Number:0034
Subject area: Language and Role-play

Make up a long train by painting windows
on Tabards. Standing together, The children can become a train with many
carriages. It's fun and exciting. Where is the train going today?

Activity title: Playing Trains
Project: Number games
Age Range:3-5 years
Activity Number:0019
Subject area: Mathematics

Use Tops, Tabards or Flats and paint them with the clothes
and colours appropriate to the chosen character.
Wear your Top, Tabard or Flat and let your character
re-tell the story or nursery rhyme. Talk about your favourite
rhyme or story. What made you choose your character and
story or rhyme?

Activity title: Become your favourite story or nursery rhyme character
Project: All The World's A Stage
Age Range:3-5 years
Activity Number:0005
Subject area: Language and Art

Be a road sign. What will you be? A traffic light? No entry?
No overtaking? Classmates on bikes can cycle around and
see what the signs say. These signs can speak of course.
What will they say? Stop? Go? No right turn? This role play
stimulates language and knowledge and understanding of
road safely. It involves painting a Tabard to become a sign.

Activity title: Road signs
Project: Be safe on the road
Age Range:3-5 years
Activity Number:0018
Subject area: Language and knowledge
& understanding of the world

Koloron robot image

Be a robot. Design a robot suit and learn to move mechanically
like a robot. How do robots turn and how do they sit down?
How do robots sound? This is all about exploring movement.

Activity title: Robots and mechanical people
Project: Not connected
Age Range:3-5 years
Activity Number:0006
Subject area: Physical and creative development

Use Tops and paint numbers for each child to wear.
Sums become fun when you add up children and
ask who is wearing the equal sign today? Plus or minus,
it's easy when the children are the numbers. Put the
garments back in the box and pull out new
numbers each time.

Activity title: Adding up people
Project: Number games
Age Range:3-5 years
Activity Number:0008
Subject area: Mathematics

So whose birthday is it? Let's dress up and give them
a really big surprise. Decide what you want to say to
them and wear it at the party. Think what's really funny or maybe
just wear the date - after all it is a very special date. Dressing up
is a good way to give the Birthday person a really good day.

Activity title: Birthdays
Project: Celebrations and Festivals
Age Range:3-5 years
Activity Number:0033
Subject area: PSE