Lesson 9: The Colors of the World

Aim
* To understand that God made many colours to make a beautiful world
* To learn that we should thank God for the beauty of colour

Materials
1. book – God Made all the Colours, (Lion Board Books)
2. objects to look at – fruit, vegetables, plastic animals, photos of flowers
3. pictures to look at – comparing coloured with black and white
3. pictures to cut and paste photocopied onto coloured paper. Eg. An orange on orange paper.
4. coloured paper, scissors and glue
6. memory cards of different colours

Lesson Outline
1. Discussion
2. Activities – cut and paste, memory game, colour relay, action songs
3. Review aims of lesson
4. Prayer

1) Discussion
* Ask the children to tell you as many different colours as they can think of. Look around the room.
What colours can they see? What colour are their clothes. How many things can they see that are red, or yellow etc..
* How many things can they think of that are yellow? green? blue? red? etc..
* Look at fruit and vegetables. What are their colours? Look at models of animals? What are the colours?
* Have two photos of different coloured flowers. One picture is a black and white copy, the other the coloured original pictures. First show the black and white picture. Can the children say what the colours are? Then show the coloured one. Did they guess right. Which picture do they like more? 

Why? Make a comparison between black & white and colour TV? 
* What is your favourite colour? What colour clothes do you like to wear?
* Who made the colours? God. Read the book, “God Made Colours” After reading ask the children to name the colours and the things God made – yellow sand, blue sky, green apples, brown birds.
What else did God make for each colour?

2) Activities
* Cut out pictures from coloured paper: red for strawberry, green for apple, blue-bird, yellow-  lemon, pink-pig, purple-grape, brown-worm, an orange-orange
Match and paste them with the black and white drawing and words for colours
* Play the memory game, matching colours
* Play colour relay
* Do colour action songs

3) Review the aims of the lesson
* To understand that God made many colours to make a beautiful world
* To learn that we should thank God for the beauty of colour 

4) Prayer
Say a prayer of thanks to God for giving us so many different colours, that make our world so beautiful.