Feeling blue?

Early years practitioners are using colour as a vehicle for children to understand and express feelings that they may find difficult to communicate, says Jackie Cosh Are we feeling a bit red today? Maybe some of us are a touch blue, or a bit yellow. We regularly use colour to describe how we are feeling, so it makes sense to use colours when talking about emotions. For young children learning about emotions, colours can provide a metaphor to help them explain something they find difficult to put into words.