Colourblocks is designed to support your child as they learn about the colours that they see all around them. It's a learning programme, grouped neatly into five levels. Each level introduces new colours and colour groups, along with exciting ideas about mixing, matching, sorting and recognising colours in the world around us.
We’ve worked closely with colour experts to shape a series that supports a clear and confident understanding of colour, from recognising and naming colours and comparing them to exploring mixing, contrasts, light and dark, patterns, colour order and the meanings colours carry – helping children to see and understand colours in a new way.
Colourblocks uses best-practice colour science, aligned to the EYSF (Early Years Foundation Stage) framework and KS1 curriculum.
In Level 1, your child will meet Colourblocks Red, Blue, Yellow and Green. Children learn to recognise and name these colours, spot them in everyday objects, see the differences between them and explore simple mixing to make new colours.
Level 2 introduces Orange, Purple, Indigo and Violet. These new Colourblock characters help children to continue to build their colour vocabulary, explore more colour mixing, and start to understand colour order and simple patterns.
Level 3 introduces Black, White, Grey, Pink and Brown. As they get to know these Colourblocks, children learn to recognise and name their colours, explore light and dark colours and discover that there’s more than one way to mix a colour.
Level 4 is where children can meet The Printing Crew - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. Children discover the world of printer colours and learn about colour wheels.
Level 5 introduces Lime, Sky Blue, Dark Blue. Children explore bright and dull colours and discover that there are in-between colours like orangey-red or reddish-orange. They'll see how mixing different amounts of colours gives different results and see the fun in being creative with colour.
Colour is big. The world literally vibrates with it and it floods our brain every second our eyes are open. Everyone has a special relationship with colour and no-one more so than children. Connections we make with colours during childhood stay with us for a lifetime.
As well as offering an essential understanding of how colour works, the show opens a door to imagination and creativity (and a colour-first approach to art) in a wonder-filled exploration that’s sure to delight children everywhere. COLOURBLOCKS uses the proven magic of Blocks to help young children dive into the wondrous world of colour. Developed in consultation with a global team of colour experts, and packed with loveable characters, show-stopping songs, humour and adventure, the show delivers colour recognition, colour names, meaning and signifiers, mixing, mark making, similar and contrasting colours, light and dark and all kinds of patterns – and that’s just for starters. It's all designed to inspire young children to be colour explorers, discovering how the colours all around them work, and getting hands on with colour themselves.
Each vibrant Colourblock personifies a colour, making it memorable and exciting for a child. As they explore their colouring-book world, the Colourblocks discover that they can add colour to it as they go and, by working together, they can create new colours and make new friends.
Lively Red is very excited to be in the world. She’s fiery and dramatic and always running around finding new things to be passionate about.
Cool Blue loves to relax in his little blue boat. He’s a calm thinker who’s great at solving problems and who loves to learn new things about the world.
Sunny Yellow is a happy, bouncy, cheerful chap. Full of fun and always positive, he keeps his friends smiling.
Green loves nature, naturally! Kind and relaxed, she loves plants and animals and is happiest in the forest or growing things in her greenhouse.
Active Orange is full of energy! She can’t stop running, jumping, stretching and star-jumping, and when she runs out of juice, a slice of orange soon gets her powered up again.
Imaginative Purple always has big dreams and big plans. He lives like a king in a big purple castle where all his friends are always welcome.
Meet the Rainbow Chasers - Indigo, who says he’s ‘like Blue but a bit more Purple’, and Violet, who says she’s ‘A little bit Purple, but a bit more Blue’. These friends of Purple share a passion for rainbows and long to see one.
These mischievous friends are often seen together, along with the speakers that say their names when they bounce on them. As well as making their own colours, they help the Colourblocks create dark and light shades.
Black and White discover that they can mix to make Grey, and once that happens, they mix with Grey to make Dark Grey and Light Grey, creating a whole family of shades.
Fun-loving Pink pops up to put the icing on the cake and the strawberry in the milkshake! ‘Pink is for everyone!’ he sings in his upbeat party song.
Down-to-earth Brown is an adventurer and an explorer through and through. She lives in a log cabin in the woods alongside brown bears and brown owls.
Cyan and Magenta are Yellow's Printing Crew friends who love to race in their Car-tridges. Cyan is chilled and laid-back, a bit like Blue, but watch out when she starts to race! Meanwhile Magenta loves to tinker and fix things and is always upgrading his racing Car-trige!
When you go under water, it get's darker the deeper you go. Maybe that's why Deep Blue loves to explore the depths of the ocean, because she is a darker blue than Blue.
Sky Blue, a paler blue than Blue, love to fly way up high in the dreamy, light sky... A bit too light for Deep Blue.
She’s in between Yellow and Green, fresh and full of zing!
Lively Red is very excited to be in the world. She’s fiery and dramatic and always running around finding new things to be passionate about.
Cool Blue loves to relax in his little blue boat. He’s a calm thinker who’s great at solving problems and who loves to learn new things about the world.
Sunny Yellow is a happy, bouncy, cheerful chap. Full of fun and always positive, he keeps his friends smiling.
Green loves nature, naturally! Kind and relaxed, she loves plants and animals and is happiest in the forest or growing things in her greenhouse.
Active Orange is full of energy! She can’t stop running, jumping, stretching and star-jumping, and when she runs out of juice, a slice of orange soon gets her powered up again.
Imaginative Purple always has big dreams and big plans. He lives like a king in a big purple castle where all his friends are always welcome.
Meet the Rainbow Chasers - Indigo, who says he’s ‘like Blue but a bit more Purple’, and Violet, who says she’s ‘A little bit Purple, but a bit more Blue’. These friends of Purple share a passion for rainbows and long to see one.
These mischievous friends are often seen together, along with the speakers that say their names when they bounce on them. As well as making their own colours, they help the Colourblocks create dark and light shades.
Black and White discover that they can mix to make Grey, and once that happens, they mix with Grey to make Dark Grey and Light Grey, creating a whole family of shades.
Fun-loving Pink pops up to put the icing on the cake and the strawberry in the milkshake! ‘Pink is for everyone!’ he sings in his upbeat party song.
Down-to-earth Brown is an adventurer and an explorer through and through. She lives in a log cabin in the woods alongside brown bears and brown owls.
Cyan and Magenta are Yellow's Printing Crew friends who love to race in their Car-tridges. Cyan is chilled and laid-back, a bit like Blue, but watch out when she starts to race! Meanwhile Magenta loves to tinker and fix things and is always upgrading his racing Car-trige!
When you go under water, it get's darker the deeper you go. Maybe that's why Deep Blue loves to explore the depths of the ocean, because she is a darker blue than Blue.
Sky Blue, a paler blue than Blue, love to fly way up high in the dreamy, light sky... A bit too light for Deep Blue.
She’s in between Yellow and Green, fresh and full of zing!
