Created for Book Week 2026
Celebrate The Colours of Home by Sally Soweol Han with this cross-curricular activity pack, designed to inspire colour, memory and belonging in early years and primary classrooms.
This resource is packed with craft, literacy and maths activities inspired by Bomi's journey between her old home and her new one, and the colours and memories that connect them. Perfect for planning a whole-day Symphony of Stories experience or weaving into your Book Week celebrations!
What's included:
Book Craft
Diorama craft - assemble a fold-out scene of Bomi's car driving past the Sydney Opera House under a full moon, in colour or black and white
Differentiated Literacy Activities
Open-ended writing prompts - 10 prompts inspired by home, memory and moving between places, with three differentiated templates
Colours of my home - draw and write about the colours of special things in your own home, with differentiated scaffolding from sentence starters to open drawing and writing
Describing colours - choose colours from the story and describe how they look, sound, smell, taste and feel, with a bonus extension using metaphors and figurative language
Postcard from Bomi - draw and write a postcard from Bomi's new home, with an alternative option to write a letter to Grandma comparing old and new homes
Descriptive writing - describe nouns using colours and adjectives, then build up to writing original descriptive sentences, across differentiated levels
A memory I'll always treasure - write about a treasured memory, guided by prompts about who, what, how it felt and why it matters, with differentiated templates
Differentiated Mathematics Activities
Cherry addition - addition to 10, 20 and 30, plus creating your own word problems, across differentiated levels
Skip counting and arrays - skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s, grouping, and creating arrays and multiplication sentences, across differentiated levels
Favourite colours data - survey classmates on their favourite colour, then tally and graph the results
Symmetry - design a symmetrical kite or umbrella, with options to complete a partial design or create one from scratch
Colour patterns - create colour patterns inspired by Bomi's favourite colours, with an extension task using different designs, shapes and sizes
Design Activities
My home colour palette - choose 6 colours that represent your own home and life, and label what each one reminds you of
Memory box - design a personal memory box and describe what's inside
Traditional kite - design a Korean yeon kite using symmetrical patterns and traditional shapes
Memory quilt - design a quilt where each square represents a different colour memory, with an option to add captions
Book cover - design a new front cover for the book, inspired by Sally Soweol Han's dotty watercolour style
Want it all?
Grab the matching The Colours of Home slide deck to bring the story to life. Includes writing prompts and maths tasks (linked to the worksheets), as well as additional design prompts.
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