Colour

Key Stage 1

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All the colours in the rainbow.

Meaning

Colour is something we see with our eyes.

Noun: Colour

Verb: Colour

About Colours

The colours we can see are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. If you mix colours of paint together you can get another colour. Red and yellow paint mixed together makes orange. Blue and yellow paint mixed together make green. Blue and red paint mixed together makes purple. If you mix all three you can make brown.

Examples

Grass is green.

Blood is red.

The sky is blue.

I am going to paint the sun yellow.

Used in a sentence

Flowers can have many different colours.

The colour of blood is red.

The sky is blue in colour.

I will colour in the sun yellow with paint.