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In March, Aoife Greenham, a local children’s book author and illustrator, led us in a powerful and memorable session exploring our feelings about colours and our emotional responses to them.
Afterwards, with a heightened awareness of all the colours around me, I started musing about how much we use colour as a way of communicating in our everyday lives, sometimes without us really being aware of it. This led me to planning a session with this as a theme, taking learning about colour in childhood as a starting point for our discussion.
I’ve had the pleasure over the last five or six years of spending with my three little great nephews, reading to them and playing with them. They are aged 7, 5 and 3 now. There’s such an emphasis on helping them to distinguish between colours even before they learn to speak! Nowadays, we have lots of brightly coloured children’s toys in primary colours, TV programmes and children’s books. I found a lovely children’s poem by Christina Rosetti, written in the nineteenth century, before children had so much, to share with the group.
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