RHYTHM ‘N BLUES, REDS & YELLOWS

Colours for kids

By ROGER HICKSON



Orange is for oranges

My favourite fruit of all

Hold it in your hand

You can squeeze it like a ball.



When you peel an orange

You must keep your head up high

If you forget to do this

It will squirt you in the eye.



Brown is a bar of chocolate

Mummy gives me for a treat

Only a small one though

Too much will rot my teeth.



Brown is also coffee

That grownups love to drink

They even love the smell of it

I just think it stinks!



Blue is the sky

On a bright sunny day

Look its stopped raining

We can go outside and play.



Lets kick the ball with Daddy

He always wants to win

But he can never beat us

We’re faster than him.



Remember that blue sky

We were talking about before?

Well, Daddy kicked the ball so high

It landed in next door.



He tried hard to get it back

But the ball was out of reach

Mummy said “Will you ever learn,

You should play football on the beach!”



Green is the grass

That Daddy has to cut

He mows it every week

But it still keeps coming up.



Why is he so happy

When he hears its going to rain?

“It’s far too wet outside

It really is a shame”



Mummy says he’s lazy

Watching football on T.V.

“I don’t know why you’re smiling

There’ll be more grass to cut next week!”



Green is the grass

Cows and horses love to eat

They stand around and eat all day

Then lie down and fall asleep.



I wish I could be like them

And do whatever I like

No, I’ve changed my mind

A cow can’t ride a bike!



Pink are little pigs

Playing in the sun

Running round outside

Having lots of fun.



Little pigs don’t realise

They are very lucky

They never get in trouble

For coming home all mucky.



Look, he’s playing in the mud

Right up to his belly

If I wanted to play in mud

I’d have to wear my wellies.



Watch him wallow in the muck

Rolling round and round

Is a pig truly pink?

Or really pink and brown.



Purple is beetroot

Daddy loves to eat

With cucumbers, lettuce

Tomatoes and cold meat.



Beetroot is good for you

Daddy says it all the time

But I don’t like these purple things

He can have mine.



Yellow are bananas

That Mummy peels for me

She says I eat so many

I could be a monkey up a tree.



My little baby brother

Loves to eat bananas too

But he’s only a baby

He can’t hold them like me and you.



One day I gave him some of mine

I thought he wanted to be fed

But he didn’t put it in his mouth

He squished it up instead.



It was all over his hands

It was even in his hair

He wiped it over his face

Squished banana everywhere.



After he was given a bath

And bits of banana cleaned off the floor

Mummy said I’m not allowed

To feed my brother anymore.



Red are strawberries

When they’re ripe to pick

Never eat a green one

They’ll only make you sick.



I love to eat strawberries

My brothers love them too

But brothers can be naughty

And do what brothers do.



Mummy made a cake for me

With strawberries round the top

But when she wasn’t looking

Someone naughty picked them off.



I ran and told Mummy

She said to me “Don’t cry

We’ve more strawberries in the garden

We’ll nail them down this time!”



White was the snowman

We made last year

He had a carrot for his nose

And sticks for his ears.



Mummy gave us a scarf

That was a small bit torn

To put around his neck

To keep our snowman warm!



Black is the dark

When I wake up in the night

My door is slightly open

I can see the hallway light.



I go to Mummy and Daddy’s room

I love to climb in with them

Then I cuddle up with Mummy

And I’m off to sleep again!