**Note: This page is for educational inspiration and is not officially affiliated with Purple Day. For official information, themes, and resources, please visit the Epilepsy Association of the Maritimes website: www.epilepsymaritimes.org. You can also find information on the global Purple Day website: www.purpleday.org.
Friday 26th March 2027
Understanding Purple Day in EYFS & KS1
Let's learn about being kind and understanding towards everyone, especially for Purple Day! 💜🎗️ Purple Day is a special international day celebrated every year on March 26th. It was started in 2008 by a brave nine-year-old girl named Cassidy Megan, from Canada. Cassidy has epilepsy and wanted to help people talk about epilepsy to clear up any misunderstandings and make sure people aren't treated unfairly because of it. The Epilepsy Association of the Maritimes (EAM) is a very important friend in helping to share and support Purple Day. This day wants to help everyone understand more about epilepsy (which is a condition that affects the brain), make people less afraid of it, and let people who have epilepsy know that they are not alone. Wearing purple on this day shows that you care and support people living with epilepsy.
For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, this day provides a wonderful and empathetic theme for exploring kindness and friendship, emotions and feelings, understanding the human body, people who help us, and personal, social & emotional development (PSED). It's about introducing children to the idea of celebrating differences, being inclusive, and showing compassion for others who might experience the world in a different way. This day offers fantastic planning ideas and inspiration for engaging activities that truly resonate with young minds, making learning about empathy and support both essential and heartwarming.
Why Is Learning About Purple Day Important for Young Children?
Integrating Purple Day and lessons about epilepsy and kindness into your practice with young children (aged 0-7) builds empathy, promotes inclusivity, and creates a supportive environment for all children.
Fosters Empathy and Understanding: Helps children learn about differences and how to be kind and supportive to friends who might have conditions like epilepsy.
Reduces Stigma: Introduces the topic in an age-appropriate way to help dispel fear or misunderstanding around neurological differences.
Promotes Inclusion: Encourages children to ensure everyone feels valued and included in activities and friendships.
Teaches About Helping Others: Highlights the role of 'People Who Help Us' (like doctors and nurses) and how friends can offer support.
Celebrates Uniqueness: Reinforces the idea that everyone is unique and special, and we should celebrate what makes us different.
Emotional Literacy: Provides an opportunity to discuss feelings and how to respond to others' needs with care.
Engaging Activities for Purple Day (0-7 Year Olds)
Let's show our support and celebrate kindness for Purple Day with these planning ideas and activities perfect for EYFS and KS1 children. The focus is on embracing differences, showing kindness, and learning about the colour purple! Many of these early years and year 1 activities can be supported by our dedicated 'Colours', 'Emotions and Feelings', and 'Kindness and Friendship' resources.
Here's some inspiration for celebrating Purple Day in your setting: (Please use your own discretion and knowledge of your children to ensure appropriateness of each activity and safety concerning any materials given and activity undertaken.)
Embrace the Colour Purple:
Decorate your learning space with purple items.
Use 'Purple Day - Colouring Posters' for a creative activity.
Go on a purple hunt: use 'Circle The Purple Things Activity', 'Find Purple Objects Activity', and 'Where Are The Purple Things? - Poster'.
Engage with 'Colour The Clothes Purple - Activity’ to make purple clothes.
Reinforce colour recognition using general colour resources like 'Colour Activity Challenge', 'Colour Fans', 'Colour Walk Checklist', 'Colour Walk Tally', 'Colour Match Game', 'Colour Snap Cards', 'Colour Mats/Posters', and 'Colour Sorting Activity/Game'.
Create a class 'Our Favourite Colours' Pictogram Chart'.
Use 'Colours' Themed Certificates' and 'Colours' Themed Reward Charts' to celebrate participation.
Brighten your setting with 'Colours' Themed Self Registration Display', 'Colour Balloon' Themed Group Charts', and 'Colour Balloon' Themed Nursery Room Group Charts'.
Kindness and Friendship Focus:
Read stories about being kind, inclusive, and understanding differences.
Discuss what it means to be a good friend and how we can support each other. Connect this to our 'Kindness and Friendship' theme.
Talk about how we all have different strengths and needs, making our community richer.
Understanding the Brain (Simple Introduction):
In a very simple, age-appropriate way, discuss that our brains are amazing but sometimes they work a little differently for some people. This can be linked to 'The Human Body' theme. Avoid jargon and focus on empathy.
People Who Help Us:
Talk about people who help us when we're not feeling well, like doctors and nurses ('Medicine: Doctors and Nurses' and 'People Who Help Us'). Explain that they help people with all sorts of conditions.
Creative Expression:
Encourage drawing or painting about feelings, kindness, or what makes each person unique, linking to 'Emotions and Feelings'.
Use general creative resources like 'Dinosaur Activity/Movement Challenge - Cartoon', 'Construction - Building Block Pattern/Colour Challenge Cards', 'Sunglasses 2-Piece Puzzles', 'Sunglasses Colour Match Cards', 'Firework Colour Checklists', 'Firework Explosion - Size Ordering Cards', and 'Colour Mixing Experiment Sheets/Display' for open-ended play and exploration.
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To browse more of our ‘Colour Activities for EYFS & KS1 Children’, please visit our dedicated ‘Colours’ page.
These activities offer great inspiration for making Purple Day a memorable and impactful experience in your early years and Key Stage One setting, fostering empathy, inclusivity, understanding of differences, and a supportive community where everyone feels valued.
To explore ideas surrounding additional early years events, please visit our 'Special Dates Calendar' page.
Printable resources to support teaching & learning surrounding: ‘Purple Day’
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN OUR RESOURCES), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Have great fun with your children whilst all pretending to be dinosaurs with this set of 8 Dinosaur Activity Challenge cards. Perhaps children could stand in a circle around the pile of cards and take turns to pick one for everyone to do. Cards could equally be shrunk down and placed on a key ring to take out on adventures or featured on an indoor or outdoor display board and referred to with everyone carrying out the activity on floor space in front. Once the children get to know the cards they will be able to relate the action to the picture without necessarily needing the card read to them...For example an adult may be able to simply hold up a card and everyone will be able to do the activity together! Great for physical development, descriptive language, understanding the world and turn taking.
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Challenge cards for children to use with building blocks such as Duplo and Lego. Children to look closely at the pattern on the cards and attempt to copy them with the blocks.
Ideal for observation skills, consolidating colour knowledge, fine motor control development and communication and language e.g. describing patterns/colours and discussing similarities and differences.
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Consolidate colour knowledge with this fun sunglasses puzzle matching game. Children will also begin to recognise that print has meaning and connect written words to colours.
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Consolidate colour knowledge with this fun matching game. Children will also begin to recognise that print has meaning and connect written words to colours.
Cards to use for a matching activity, picking up pairs memory game or as flash cards. Each card is made with a backing tab for folding before lamination to provide a more robust final product.
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Which colours can you spot? Why not be creative with this resource?…
If at home, perhaps watching a fireworks display (outside or from a window), encourage your child(ren) to look out for the colours on the chart and tick them off as they see them.
Alternatively, watch a recording of a fireworks display and even hit pause to discuss and identify the colours you see.
For a more physical sensory experience, why not create objects to represent fireworks in a tuff spot or on a trail around your setting/home in the appropriate colours? Children can then tick them off as they find each colour.
If your children need extending, consider an element of counting and perhaps even tally mark making.
Have fun!
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Firework explosion themed size ordering pictures. Intended to be cut out (and ideally laminated) for use by children in repeatable size ordering activities. If you have access to a fuzzy felt board, why not stick velcro tabs on the back so that children can move them around on the board? Alternatively use them as a cut and stick activity (to also strengthen fine motor skills) for the children to take home and discuss with their families using words such as ‘small, smaller, smallest, big, bigger, biggest’.
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Colour mixing experiment sheets with a heart theme. For example, paint the first heart white and the second red. Then mix the two colours together and paint the bottom heart in the resulting pink colour. You may want to repeat this for a few different mixtures and make a ‘Colour Mixing’ display.
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Have great fun with your children whilst all pretending to do different actions relating to colours with this set of 8 Colour Activity Challenge cards. Colours include: red, yellow, blue, green, orange, black, brown & white.
Perhaps children could stand in a circle around the pile of cards and take turns to pick one for everyone to do. Cards could equally be shrunk down and placed on a key ring to take out on adventures or featured on an indoor or outdoor display board and referred to with everyone carrying out the activity on floor space in front. Once the children get to know the cards they will be able to relate the action to the picture without necessarily needing the card read to them...For example an adult may be able to simply hold up a card and everyone will be able to do the activity together! For those children who are exceptionally engaged, these cards explored in sequence could even be set to music as a dance performance!
Great for physical development, descriptive language, understanding the world and turn taking.
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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These colour fans can be given to individual children to be used in a number of ways. For example children may like to independently select a colour and search for matching colours around the setting/house. In group activities an adult may ask questions and encourage children to find the right colour on their fan and hold it up so that the adult may quickly see who has secure understanding and who may need more support.
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Colour themed checklists (One with words, one without). Your children will love to use this as part of a ‘Colour Walk’ activity searching for the various Colours within settings/homes or out and about. Use once with mark making tools such as pencils and encourage children to take it home as a stimulus for talk at home. Alternatively, perhaps you might like to laminate sheets and place them with whiteboard pens in an indoor or outdoor free choice area for multiple uses. Challenge…Can you find something for every colour?
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Colour walk tally chart/check list. Your children will love to use this as part of a Colour Walk/Hunt activity. What colours can you all spot in the environment as we walk around the local area?...Or as we walk around our setting/home/outdoor area? Encourage children to make a mark/line in the box next to a colour each time they see it. Children will begin to gain an understanding of tallying. You may also like to use this sheet in conjunction with a 'Colours' themed tuff spot or feely bag.
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Fun colour bingo style game. Ideal for learning colours and objects which can correspond to those colours. Children develop observation, memory and matching skills. Instructions for how to play game on the first page. Colour Item cards come with tab ideal for folding before lamination so that images on cards can not be seen when placed upside down.
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Cards to use for Colour snap, picking up pairs memory game or as flash cards. Each card is made with a backing tab for folding before lamination to provide a more robust final product.
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Colour mats/ posters. Ideal for displaying in your setting or using to aid colour sorting and matching activities. Perhaps place one on a table and challenge your child to collect objects from around the room of the correct colour and place them on table.
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Colour sorting game to aid learning and consolidation of colour recognition. Print colour names and cut out objects in order for children to match the objects to the correct colours. Laminate for multiple uses or use as a cut and stick activity (to also strengthen fine motor skills) for children to take home and discuss with their families. Why not also take a look at our ‘Colour Mats/Posters’?
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‘Our Favourite Colours’ Pictogram Chart pictures designed for children to not only think about their favourite colour, but also realise that others may not have the same favourite. In addition, children begin to learn about simple graphs and charts. Ideal for use in a classroom, preschool, nursery or childminder setting. Children do not have to necessarily complete the activity at the same time, but a chart can be added to a display and individual children can add their own favourites at appropriate times. Simply place any of the eight large colour splats on the first page in a horizontal line to form the base of the chart and children can add their own favourite smaller colour splat above to create the vertical lines of a chart. The lengths of the lines can be compared and number of colour splats on each can be counted to find totals. Questions such as ‘How many children like red?’ may be asked. To really extend mathematical thinking, questions such as ‘How many more children like yellow than blue?’ Colours included are: red, yellow, pink, purple, orange, brown, green & blue.
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This page is for educational purposes only and is intended to support early years and primary practitioners with ideas and resources related to 'Purple Day'. We are not officially affiliated with or endorsed by Cassidy Megan, the founder of Purple Day, or the Epilepsy Association of the Maritimes (EAM). We do not claim any rights to specific trademarks or official materials associated with this event. For official information, themes, and to learn more about supporting people with epilepsy and reducing stigma, please visit the Epilepsy Association of the Maritimes website: www.epilepsymaritimes.org. You can also find information on the global Purple Day website: www.purpleday.org.
Friday 26th March 2027: 💜🎗️ Purple Day is a special international day celebrated every year on March 26th. It was started in 2008 by a brave nine-year-old girl named Cassidy Megan, from Canada. Cassidy has epilepsy and wanted to help people talk about epilepsy to…