Making Colour Sets for EYFS and KS1

In this activity, children explore colours, patterns, and the idea of making sets. Each worksheet begins with a set of six colour blocks.
Children look carefully at the example and then create five new pictures using only those same six colours, making sure that each picture looks different.
The resource contains 10 pages with ready-made colour sets to help children get started, 5 black-and-white sets for children to colour themselves, and a final open-ended page with six blank blocks where children can choose their own set of six colours before creating their designs.
This activity encourages children to recognise colours, think creatively, and explore how colours can be combined in different ways while still belonging to the same set.
To make the learning more practical, teachers may first give children physical colour objects such as pencils, counters, cubes, or buttons.
Children can sort and arrange these objects into colour sets before moving on to the worksheet activity or use them afterwards to recreate the colour patterns they designed on paper.