Duckling Class @FP enjoyed a wonderful learning experience inspired by the story ‘The Colors of Us’ by Karen Katz. The story encouraged the children to celebrate the beautiful differences between us and recognise that everyone’s skin is a unique and special colour.

We talked together about our own “yummy colours”, using delicious descriptions to describe the different shades of our skin, such as peaches and cream, vanilla fudge, caramel and chocolate. The children loved looking carefully at themselves and sharing the colours they could see.

We then became colour-mixing artists, experimenting with different paints to create a shade that matched our own skin tone. The children discovered that they needed to mix several colours together and carefully adjust their mixtures until they were happy with the result.

Finally, everyone used their specially mixed colours to paint a self-portrait, thinking carefully about their skin, hair, eyes and individual features.

It was a lovely way for Duckling Class to explore identity, diversity and belonging, while developing their creativity, observation skills and understanding that we are all wonderfully unique.