Some school days are about the timetable. Colour’s Day is about something younger children understand straight away: colour. For Colour’s Day 2026, our kindergarten children and their teachers each dressed in the day’s colour, came to school carrying hand-made craft cutouts in the same shade, and found the whole campus decorated to match.
Blue Day
On Blue Day the classrooms filled with every shade of blue, from the children’s outfits to their teachers’ sarees. Each child held up a craft piece they had worked on: butterflies, flowers and even a teddy bear, all cut and coloured in blue. The day ended with the Blue Day group gathered in front of a bright “Happy Colours Day” backdrop for a class photograph.
Pink Day
Pink Day brought a softer palette and a different set of shapes. Children arrived with pink lotus flowers, tulips, butterflies and a rabbit cutout, and their teachers dressed in pink alongside them. Some of our favourite photographs from the week are the simplest ones: a teacher smiling in the middle of her class, everyone in the same colour, everyone proud of what they made.
A campus dressed for the occasion
The celebration was not confined to the classrooms. The school entrance was decorated with dolphin, fish, frog and cloud cutouts, so that the first thing children saw each morning was part of the theme. Beside the school’s Colour’s Day signage stood a large rainbow butterfly display, which brought every colour of the week together in one place.
Why we hold colour concept days
Colour concept days are part of how our Nursery Wing teaches, not an extra on the calendar. For a three- or four-year-old, learning a colour is far easier when it is something they wear, hold, make and see all around them than when it is a picture on a worksheet. A day built around one colour gives children:
- Vocabulary they use straight away: naming the colour, and the things that share it.
- Fine motor practice: cutting, colouring and handling their own craft pieces.
- Confidence: showing their work to classmates and teachers, and posing for a class photograph.
- A sense of belonging: the whole class, and the teachers, taking part together.
It sits alongside the rest of the Nursery Wing approach: phonetics-based reading, sight words, activity-based learning and an introduction to the kindergarten library.
See the photographs
The full set of Colour’s Day photographs is in our photo gallery, along with Independence Day 2026 and the rest of the year’s celebrations. You can read more about how the early years work at St. Lawrence on our Nursery Wing page, and if your child is about to start school, our guide to the right starting age for Nursery, LKG and UKG may help.
Thank you to our kindergarten teachers for the planning and the hours of craft work behind the week, and to our parents for the blue and pink outfits that made it all come together.