Color Blocked: Story Summary

Lesson Plan
Color Blocked
Story Summary
The color is blocked! The pages must be rubbed,
turned, and tapped to straighten out pipes, unplug
corks, and keep the color flowing. Color Blocked
helps children learn their primary colors and
also learn more about creating secondary colors
through all kinds of fun. Rainbow colored, elaborate
illustrations alternate with intricate black and white
drawings drenching and belting single and blended
colors.
Book Information
Lesson Focus
Run Time 4:16
Primary and Secondary Colors
Author Ashley Sorenson
Illustrator David Miles Activity Ideas

Narrator Tim Bick Play Dough Colors
Mix primary colored play dough to get secondary
Publisher Familius
colors.
Ages 3–8
Create a Class Picture
Genre Fiction Give each child a different color and ask them to help
make a picture.
Text Structure Interactive
Color Wheel
Themes & Ideas primary colors, secondary colors Create a color wheel with the primary and secondary
Sentence simple and compound sentences colors.
Complexity
Vocabulary blocked, unclog, twisted, whoosh, splat,
spray, phew
Additional activities can be found in the following
Special red, yellow, orange, blue, green, purple pages of this document.
Vocabulary
Illustrations Color imagining and creating are
contrasted with black and white
backgrounds drained of color.
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Book Chat
NAME
Color Blocked
The color is blocked! The pages must be rubbed, turned, and tapped Discuss the story and write your
to straighten out pipes, unplug corks, and keep the color flowing. answers together.
Color Blocked helps children learn primary colors and how mixing
colors can make secondary colors. Rainbow colored, elaborate
illustrations alternate with intricate black and white drawings.
What was Color Blocked about?

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What is your favorite color?

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Can you name the primary colors?

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Can you explain how different colors are made

from the primary colors?
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What would the world be like without colors?

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Vooks Pause & Ponder
Color Blocked Pause at the indicated time

stamps and discuss the story
0:26 What do you think this is a picture of?
0:33 What do you think happened?
0:56 What do you think should have happened?
1:36 What is going to happen now?
2:31 What color is created when blue drips all over red?
2:58 What is that sound?
3:15 Did it work?
3:34 Describe the picture.
After viewing the Book:
1. What is the most colorful thing you have

ever seen?
2. How would your life be different if everything

were black and white?

Coloring Sheet NAME
Drawing and Writing NAME
What would the world be like with no color?

Draw a picture and write about it below.
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Task that requires adult help
Materials needed Directions
• paper plates for individual; baking sheet for a group 1. Cover a paper plate with shaving cream.
• liquid food coloring of the three primary colors:
2. Add a primary color to a few places in the cream.
red, yellow, blue
• shaving cream 3. Ask children to identify the color and then add
• 8 1/2 by 11" white paper one more primary color to a few places in the
cream.
• various colored construction paper slightly larger
than 8 1/2 by 11" printer paper 4. After that color has been identified, mix the two
• clean up supplies: baby wipes, paper towels colors together.
• consider having child wear a smock or old shirt 5. Ask children to identify that color.
6. Add a different combination of two primary colors

and repeat steps 3 to 5.
or
7. Allow children to create pictures with the colors
for a while adding more food coloring to allow the
Paper Plates Baking Pan opportunity to create secondary and intermediate
colors in the shaving cream.
8. When finished, hands will need to be washed and

then wiped with baby wipes to remove as much
Yellow
g
in
Red
av am food coloring as possible.

ShCre
Shaving Cream Painting

1. Place a piece of white paper on top of the final
Blue
shaving cream creation.

Food Shaving Cleanup
Coloring Cream Supplies 2. Children will probably need assistance patting it
somewhat flat on their shaving cream creation.
3. Carefully peel the paper off of the shaving cream.

Smock or 4. Taking the paper to a sink and using a sharp
Old T-shirt knife, carefully scrape the shaving cream off of
the paper.
5. The food coloring will have soaked into the paper

leaving a mirror image of the children’s work.
6. After it has been allowed to dry help each child

choose a complimentary color of construction
paper.
7. Glue the painting to the construction paper.

White 8.5 x Construction Paper
11” Paper (larger than 8.5 x 11)

Matching Colors NAME
What colors are created Primary Colors Secondary Colors
by mixing primary colors
together? Fill in the blanks Example
with the correct answers from
the color bank and then color
the circles with the primary
and secondary colors.
Red + Yellow =
Color Bank
Orange
Green
Purple
Yellow + Blue =
Blue + Red =

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What is the story about?

What is the story about?

What are primary and secondary colors?

What are primary and secondary colors?

Lesson Plan

Illustrator David Miles Activity Ideas

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What was Color Blocked about?

What is your favorite color?

Can you name the primary colors?

Can you explain how different colors are made

What would the world be like without colors?

Storybooks Brought to Life™ // vooks.com

Color Blocked Pause at the indicated time

0:26 What do you think this is a picture of?

0:33 What do you think happened?

0:56 What do you think should have happened?

1:36 What is going to happen now?

2:58 What is that sound?

3:15 Did it work?

3:34 Describe the picture.

After viewing the Book:

1. What is the most colorful thing you have

2. How would your life be different if everything

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What would the world be like with no color?

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6. Add a different combination of two primary colors

8. When finished, hands will need to be washed and

av am food coloring as possible.

Shaving Cream Painting

shaving cream creation.

3. Carefully peel the paper off of the shaving cream.

5. The food coloring will have soaked into the paper

6. After it has been allowed to dry help each child

7. Glue the painting to the construction paper.

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