The book Wimee's Words: Vehicles and Colors was created to coincide with the Wimage app.
What is the Wimage app? Wimage is a tool for children to help them explore their creativity and enhance their storytelling. It is a free, downloadable app that converts words into images. Words can be entered into the app by typing or saying them, and then an icon of that word will appear. The icon can then be changed in size, color, number, and placement. Adding words adds more icons to the image (or “wimage”), allowing the user to create a visual story.
Your children can recreate the illustrations in the book by using the Wimage app. They can also create their own wimages that are inspired by the illustrations in the book simply by using the same icons and then manipulating them. This allows for creative exploration and can lead to new story ideas!
You can show the illustrations to your children without reading the accompanying text. They can be used as story prompts: What is happening in the wimage? What do you see? What happened just before? What will happen now?
Wimee makes wimages about various vehicles. Your children can choose other vehicles and try to find words that rhyme with them. They could also choose other colors, write a sentence with their rhyming and color words, and then illustrate it.
Each of Wimee’s sentences has a subject noun with the same beginning sound of the verb that follows it: alliteration. Also, each verb is a strong action word and can be acted out with your children.
There are twelve different prepositions in the book (e.g., under, across, and on). Each of these location words can be acted out with children using objects in their environment. The icons are also available to print at www.wimee.tv.
Each line of the book is written in rhyme. On subsequent readings, don’t say the direct object word (e.g., kazoo, dragon, and sheep) aloud so your children can guess it and “read” the book with you. Encourage them to think of different rhyming words that could work, too.
Except for Wimee, the colors used in the book are the primary and secondary colors. They are introduced in rainbow order, ROYGBIV: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet. (Indigo and violet are combined in the book as purple.)
The subject of each line is described using the color of the direct object from the previous sentence. For example, “The red van vanished under the orange can” is followed by “The orange train trekked below the yellow crane.” As children notice the pattern, they can predict what color is coming next.
Explore the endpapers of the book with your children. Point to a word and have them find the rhyme. For the words that don’t have a rhyme on the page, point to the empty spot: What rhyming word could be put there?
Printables of the endpapers as a bingo game are available here.
Children can choose a column or a row of icons on the endpapers and create a new wimage with them, individually or in groups. Have them narrate their visual story aloud to each other.
Watch videos of Wimee sharing wimages made by children. He will have story prompt ideas as well, so check back often. Your children can submit their wimages to Wimee on this site in hopes that their creation will be featured!
Coming soon: Listen to and download the accompanying song.
What is the Wimage app? Wimage is a tool for children to help them explore their creativity and enhance their storytelling. It is a free, downloadable app that converts words into images. Words can be entered into the app by typing or saying them, and then an icon of that word will appear. The icon can then be changed in size, color, number, and placement. Adding words adds more icons to the image (or “wimage”), allowing the user to create a visual story.
Your children can recreate the illustrations in the book by using the Wimage app. They can also create their own wimages that are inspired by the illustrations in the book simply by using the same icons and then manipulating them. This allows for creative exploration and can lead to new story ideas!
You can show the illustrations to your children without reading the accompanying text. They can be used as story prompts: What is happening in the wimage? What do you see? What happened just before? What will happen now?
Wimee makes wimages about various vehicles. Your children can choose other vehicles and try to find words that rhyme with them. They could also choose other colors, write a sentence with their rhyming and color words, and then illustrate it.
Each of Wimee’s sentences has a subject noun with the same beginning sound of the verb that follows it: alliteration. Also, each verb is a strong action word and can be acted out with your children.
There are twelve different prepositions in the book (e.g., under, across, and on). Each of these location words can be acted out with children using objects in their environment. The icons are also available to print at www.wimee.tv.
Each line of the book is written in rhyme. On subsequent readings, don’t say the direct object word (e.g., kazoo, dragon, and sheep) aloud so your children can guess it and “read” the book with you. Encourage them to think of different rhyming words that could work, too.
Except for Wimee, the colors used in the book are the primary and secondary colors. They are introduced in rainbow order, ROYGBIV: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet. (Indigo and violet are combined in the book as purple.)
The subject of each line is described using the color of the direct object from the previous sentence. For example, “The red van vanished under the orange can” is followed by “The orange train trekked below the yellow crane.” As children notice the pattern, they can predict what color is coming next.
Explore the endpapers of the book with your children. Point to a word and have them find the rhyme. For the words that don’t have a rhyme on the page, point to the empty spot: What rhyming word could be put there?
Printables of the endpapers as a bingo game are available here.
Children can choose a column or a row of icons on the endpapers and create a new wimage with them, individually or in groups. Have them narrate their visual story aloud to each other.
Watch videos of Wimee sharing wimages made by children. He will have story prompt ideas as well, so check back often. Your children can submit their wimages to Wimee on this site in hopes that their creation will be featured!
Coming soon: Listen to and download the accompanying song.