Coloring all over the lines
For this poetry warm up, put a color in each line. Try starting with just one color.
This will free you to see the color in not only objects but sounds and smells and numbers and feelings.
As the warm up to the warm up, Koch dropped some keys on the desk and slapped the desk with a ruler and asked the kids what color those were. He asked them what was the color of France, England and Spain; of Monday and Wednesday and the number fourteen hundred.
From Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching children to write poetry by Kenneth Koch.
