Colour below paragraph text in inline graphic way

Hellow,
I am doing children story book in indesign cs5. Every story has title, picture, story, questions and some other fun matter.
Story flows in two and two and half pages. Below STORY MATTER ONLY we want to put colour which flows one frame to another or one page to another.
I am doing full INLINE graphic i.e. every thing in one frame flowing automatically if I reduce or add matter in between.
Can it possible colour patch below story matter adjusted atuomaticelly if matter reduced or added and flow from one frame to another.
Can we define in paragraph style colour below paragraph.

sadhale wrote:
Dear Peter Spier
Yes, I tried paragraph rule also. But It dosent work because if paragraph ends with one or two words, colour patch dosent stretch to right edge.
Then colour dosent go little beyond matter.
I can use Anchor object, but I need to adjust anchorde patch as per matter.
You will get better idea from the image below
Have you considered applying the background color as a filled rectangle on the master page, and creating the white separators around graphics, and activities items as anchored objects with white fill and/or borders?
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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