Dress Them Up!

Objective & content

This activity sheet is about clothes and colours. Selin shows pupils five children standing in a row, drawn in black lines with their names under them: Juno, Coco, Amos, Tilda and Frankie. Pupils read one sentence about each child and colour their clothes, then draw and describe themselves. By the end, pupils read and use clothes words (T-shirt, skirt, shorts, cap, scarf, jumper, hoodie, trousers, bows) with colours and has got: "Amos has got a red cap."

Pedagogical guide

Task 1 is the picture: the five children, ready to colour. Task 2 gives one sentence for each child, and pupils colour only what the sentence says. Juno has got pink bows, a yellow T-shirt and a purple skirt. Coco has got a green T-shirt and a blue skirt. Amos has got a red cap, an orange T-shirt and blue shorts. Tilda has got a red scarf, a green jumper and a grey skirt. Frankie has got a blue hoodie and black trousers. Every piece of clothing named is in the picture, so pupils have to find it on the right child before they colour it, and the finished picture shows at a glance whether they understood each sentence. Task 3 turns it round: pupils draw themselves in the frame, colour their clothes and complete two sentence starters ("I've got a", "I've got"), then read them to a partner. The sentences about the children say has got, the pupils write I've got, so they meet both forms. Page 2 gives the answer key and the teacher notes.

Suggested procedure

1. (5 min) Point at pupils' clothes and say the colour: "Your jumper is blue!"
2. (5 min) Task 1: look at the five children together and read their names.
3. (15 min) Task 2: pupils read each sentence and colour the clothes; check with the answer key.
4. (10 min) Task 3: pupils draw themselves, colour their clothes and write two sentences.
5. (5 min) In pairs, pupils read their sentences to a partner.

Adaptations

[S] Read the five sentences aloud first and point to each piece of clothing in the picture.

[A] Pupils write a description of a friend in the class for the others to guess.

Materials & prerequisites

One copy per pupil of page 1, in colour or black and white: the children are drawn in black lines, ready to colour. Pupils need a pencil and colouring pencils. Page 2 is the answer key with teacher notes: keep it. Pupils should know the colours; the clothes words are clear from the picture.