S2 Ep5: Rhythm and Blues, Reds & Yellows - Colours for Kids

Roger's Rhymes

RHYTHM ‘N BLUES, REDS & YELLOWS
Colours for kids
By ROGER HICKSON
Orange is for oranges
My favourite fruit of all
Hold it in your hand
You can squeeze it like a ball.
When you peel an orange
You must keep your head up high
If you forget to do this
It will squirt you in the eye.
Brown is a bar of chocolate
Mummy gives me for a treat
Only a small one though
Too much will rot my teeth.
Brown is also coffee
That grownups love to drink
They even love the smell of it
I just think it stinks!
Blue is the sky
On a bright sunny day
Look its stopped raining
We can go outside and play.
Lets kick the ball with Daddy
He always wants to win
But he can never beat us
We’re faster than him.
Remember that blue sky
We were talking about before?
Well, Daddy kicked the ball so high
It landed in next door.
He tried hard to get it back
But the ball was out of reach
Mummy said “Will you ever learn,
You should play football on the beach!”
Green is the grass
That Daddy has to cut
He mows it every week
But it still keeps coming up.
Why is he so happy
When he hears its going to rain?
“It’s far too wet outside
It really is a shame”
Mummy says he’s lazy
Watching football on T.V.
“I don’t know why you’re smiling
There’ll be more grass to cut next week!”
Green is the grass
Cows and horses love to eat
They stand around and eat all day
Then lie down and fall asleep.
I wish I could be like them
And do whatever I like
No, I’ve changed my mind
A cow can’t ride a bike!
Pink are little pigs
Playing in the sun
Running round outside
Having lots of fun.
Little pigs don’t realise
They are very lucky
They never get in trouble
For coming home all mucky.
Look, he’s playing in the mud
Right up to his belly
If I wanted to play in mud
I’d have to wear my wellies.
Watch him wallow in the muck
Rolling round and round
Is a pig truly pink?
Or really pink and brown.
Purple is beetroot
Daddy loves to eat
With cucumbers, lettuce
Tomatoes and cold meat.
Beetroot is good for you
Daddy says it all the time
But I don’t like these purple things
He can have mine.
Yellow are bananas
That Mummy peels for me
She says I eat so many
I could be a monkey up a tree.
My little baby brother
Loves to eat bananas too
But he’s only a baby
He can’t hold them like me and you.
One day I gave him some of mine
I thought he wanted to be fed
But he didn’t put it in his mouth
He squished it up instead.
It was all over his hands
It was even in his hair
He wiped it over his face
Squished banana everywhere.
After he was given a bath
And bits of banana cleaned off the floor
Mummy said I’m not allowed
To feed my brother anymore.
Red are strawberries
When they’re ripe to pick
Never eat a green one
They’ll only make you sick.
I love to eat strawberries
My brothers love them too
But brothers can be naughty
And do what brothers do.
Mummy made a cake for me
With strawberries round the top
But when she wasn’t looking
Someone naughty picked them off.
I ran and told Mummy
She said to me “Don’t cry
We’ve more strawberries in the garden
We’ll nail them down this time!”
White was the snowman
We made last year
He had a carrot for his nose
And sticks for his ears.
Mummy gave us a scarf
That was a small bit torn
To put around his neck
To keep our snowman warm!
Black is the dark
When I wake up in the night
My door is slightly open
I can see the hallway light.
I go to Mummy and Daddy’s room
I love to climb in with them
Then I cuddle up with Mummy
And I’m off to sleep again!