Household sort
DESCRIBING COLOURS:
Colour characters
Sort household items into their colour characters
Details:
All ages
Time: 10 minutes
Learning Outcome: To recognize colour characters in a variety of household objects and arrange these objects according to their character.
Colour Concepts: Colour and hue are not the same.
Materials:
A collection of 10-20 household objects belonging to the same hue family.
Corresponding vivid, pale, muted and dark tiles from the associated hue family/families in the physical sorting set.
Instructions:
Collect 10-20 items around your house from the same hue family. Make sure to find muted, dark and pale examples, as well as vivid items.
Spread out the items to cover your work area (see Figure 1).
Figure 1. A collection of items.
Use the two vivid tiles of the adjacent hue families to ‘bookend’ the collection.
Arrange the items between the two vivid tiles, according to variation of hue from one tile to the other (See Figure 2).
Figure 2. Items sorted according to hue.
Lay out the pale, muted and dark tiles from the same hue family, and arrange your item according to their colour characters (See Figure 3).
Find the item that is the closest match to each of your vivid, pale, muted and dark tiles (See Figure 4).
Figure 3. Items sorted according to character.
Figure 4. Items matched to character.
