Step by Step
By Cindy Blevins
Instructional Support Teacher, GISD
Step 1
lime green
1. Select a color (if you are creating a
Power Point, insert a picture from your
computer clipart). The picture can be
funny, serious, or whatever appeals to
you as long as it is classroom
“appropriate” and represents your color.
butterscotch
brick red
sienna
Step 2
2. Write a short paragraph about your
color. Write what you think, wonder,
feel, etc. You can even write like you are
the color (personification).
Purple is springtime flowers, plums, and
eggplant. Purple is royalty and amethyst
rings. Purple makes me happy unless
I’m wearing a bruise.
Step 3
3. Insert line breaks (vary the number
of words, but don’t include more than 5
or 6 words on any one line).
Purple is / springtime flowers, / plums, /
and eggplant. / Purple is / royalty and /
amethyst rings. / Purple makes me /
happy / unless I’m wearing / a bruise.
Step 4
4. Rewrite the poem
using the line breaks.
Purple is / springtime
flowers, / plums, / and
eggplant. / Purple is /
royalty and / amethyst
rings. / Purple makes
me / happy / unless I’m
wearing / a bruise.
Purple is
springtime flowers,
plums,
and eggplant.
Purple is
royalty and
amethyst rings.
Purple makes me
happy . . .
unless I’m wearing
a bruise.
Step 5
5. Decorate your
poem.
Purple is
springtime flowers,
plums,
and eggplant.
Purple is
royalty and
amethyst rings.
Purple makes me
happy . . .
unless I’m wearing
a bruise.
Step 6
6. Share your poem. Purple is
springtime flowers,
plums,
and eggplant.
Purple is
royalty and
amethyst rings.
Purple makes me
happy . . .
unless I’m wearing
a bruise.