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Color Poetry Activity:  In this activity you are going to think about color and write a COLOR poem or two.

COLOR Assignment #1:   Think of the names of COLOR and write them down.  You can use your Crayola box to help you.  Don't forget different shades of a color, like jade green, spring green or lime green. Look at Color Chart #1 and Color Chart #2 to help you think about color.

Think about colors in different ways and write down your thoughts:

• What does the COLOR sound like?
• What does theCOLOR look like?
• What does theCOLOR feel like?
• What does the COLOR smell like?
• Think of things that are that COLOR.
• Think of events that are thatCOLOR.
• Think of feelings that are that COLOR.

Look at your list of thoughts, put them in a pleasing order.   Add some good descriptive words. You might want to use a thesaurus or rhyming dictionary to help you. Open a Word document and type your poem.  If you have a color printer you can make the name of your color in that color, i.e. PURPLE. If you don't have a color printer you can use an OUTLINE font to type your color and color it in after it is printed.  You may add clipart, hand drawn computer art or draw on your printed copy. Hand in to your teacher. See example below and visit the Other COLOR Poems Sites to see more.

COLOR Assignment #2: Use one of the templates below to write a poem called "Have You Heard the Sound of ___________?" Copy and paste the template into a Word document. Center your poem.   Don't forget to turn your poem into your teacher.

Template #1:

Have you heard the sound of (your color)?
(List three things that your color reminds you of)
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That's the sound of (your color).

See examples of these poems here.

Template #2:

Have you heard the sound of (your color)?
If not, then,
Can you hear the (something your color reminds you of)?
Can you hear the (something your color reminds you of)?
Can you hear the (something your color reminds you of)?
If you can,
You have heard the sound of (your color).

See examples of these poems here. (Check out GREEN)

Thanks to Mrs. Sunda's Gifted Class for the above poetry activity.

Other COLOR poems:

Students have written COLOR poems. See them here http://www.songs4teachers.com/colorpoems.htm
http://www.wtisbury.mv.k12.ma.us/projects/poetry/colorpoems/color.htm
http://www.wtisbury.mv.k12.ma.us/projects/poetry/colorpoems/color2.htm
http://www.mcps.org/linkous/creativity/hailstones/

COLOR Poetry Page http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/Norte/cress/color/

Have You Heard the Sound of? http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/archive/sunkids4.htm

More COLOR Poems http://orchard.sbschools.net/users/pvandegraaf/colorpoems.htm

COLOR Poems can be inspired by the book Hailstones and Halibut Bones, by Mary O'Neill. Ask your librarian about the book if you need more inspiration. Also you can see student poems and illustrations here that were inspired by this book.

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