I was so inspired by the updated The New Zealand Art Activity Book by Helen Lloyd I got you to write poems that leapt from one of the artworks I posted.
You all loved Sara Hughes’s gorgeous ‘Millions of Colours’. I do too!
I am posting just a few you sent in. It was just fun reading how you made the poems pop with colour.
I am sending Daniel a copy of the activity book (Thanks Te Papa Press) because I really like the idea of dream eggs hatching colours.
And I am sending Tom a copy of The Letterbox Cat because I loved the repeating pattern of words that made the poem spin like Dick Frizzell’s dancing chicken.
You still have a change to do my Treasury challenge (I am really keen for NZ poets to be picked!). Even if you have a copy still try the challenge. See here.
Some Poems that bounce from ART:
Inspired by Dick Frizzell’s painting, ‘The Dancing Chicken’:
The Dancing Smile
I am the dancing chicken
The dancing chicken
The dancing chicken
Watch me swirl
Watch me spin
The smiling, dancing chicken
So I won’t forget your spin.
I am the dancing chicken
Watch me twirl
Watch me spin
I’m pleased to give a smile
So I won’t forget your spin.
Tom N, Year 4, age 9, Hoon Hay School
Inspired By Sara Hughes painting: Millions of Colours
Daniel, Year 4, age 9, Adventure School
Colour dots
Spot, spot, spot, it’s a dot.
Jumping on the page.
Yellow like the sun, blue like the sea,
Colours all around me!
Red as a rose
And likes to pose
On the page.
By Clementine, 9, year 4, Lyttelton Primary School
Dots
Colours jump around the page
spots and dots
lots and lots of colours to be made,
yellow like the sun,
pink is lots of fun,
violet is the queen
like a never ending scheme.
Seraphine, 9, Year 4, Lyttelton Primary School
Blurry colours
Colours everywhere make me look stand stare
Blurry like a blind man’s seeing
like a colourful human being
Red like a rose, blue like the sky
The colours that fly on morning sky
Nydia, 8, Year 4, Lyttelton Primary School
Millions of colours
The colours I see in my head
I even see them even in my bed.
When I’m asleep at night the colours stop the fright.
The moonshine makes this poem rhyme.
The colours flee but come back at May
to keep the bad monsters at bay.
This is my poem I hope you like
make sure the colour stops the fright.
By Sophie M, 8, Year 4, Lyttelton Primary School
Colours!
Colours colours
I can see colours
I can see colours on a piece of paper.
Colours colours
I can see colours
I can see colours on a book.
Then I took that book and added more colours!!!!!!!!
Chloe D, 8, Year 4, Lyttelton Primary School
Kate, Age 10, Year 5, Fendalton School
