How will you Colour Your Day?

Here are some ideas to help you COLOUR YOUR DAY. You’ll find downloads available below that will help with making this COLOUR YOUR DAY a successful and engaging day.

Celebrate Each Other:

• Create a colourful Post-it note display with affirmations or lift-ups about people in your class

• Learn about your unique strengths

• Create a tower of strength. Have each person write their strength on a Lego or Jenga block and stack them together

• Host an art exhibition or wearable arts competition

• Celebrate diversity in your school

• Partner with a primary/secondary school to celebrate your connections

Include the Whole School:

• Host an assembly

• Invite a guest speaker

• Have a colourful dress-up day

• Display E Tū Tāngata or Colour Your Day posters

• Decorate your classrooms

• Organise a food or clothing drive for a charity near your school

Make It Fun!

• Organise a colour run

• Use the #ColourYourDay on social media

• Run a colourful house competition

• Chalk the Walk. Use chalk to decorate the school pathways with colourful drawings and lift-ups

• Organise a colouring competition with our Colour Your Day colouring sheets (see below for downloads)

• Create colour stations around your school. These might include face paint, E Tū Tāngata stickers and affirmations, or colourful cards for students to pass on a kind message