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