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Game time - colors


Now there are literally hundreds of games out there that you can play when teaching colors. Here are 3 of my favorites:

1. Coloring


Prepare crayons (several of each color) and place them on a table. Hang coloring pictures on the wall everywhere in the room. Say the name of a student and a color. The student has to run to the table, take the color and choose a picture to color. He or she colors a part (one part only!) and sits down again. To not have the other students waiting and to make things more fun, call many names quickly after another with different colors or with the same color). You can also allow the students to be more creative and add things to the picture. Once finished, look at what the coloring pictures look like after the game. There may be some pretty wild combinations.

2. Tapping

Place a few flashcards on the floor (or table). Have the students sit around the cards. Tap on one card and say its color (eg “blue”). The next student has to tap your card and say this color and then chose another one, tap it and say both colors (eg “blue, red”. The next one continues (eg “blue, red, green). You can also tap one color twice or three times (eg “blue, red, red, green”). This continues until one student forgets the correct order.

3. Musical chairs with a twist

Make a circle with chairs (one chair less than you have students in your class). Fix a card with a color on each chair. Sing a song that you all know and stop suddenly. The students then have to sit down on a free chair. The student who didn't find a place walks around and asks the sitting students “What color is it?”. They then have to check their seat and say the color. Now you have 2 possibilities:  If they got it wrong, they are out and take the chair with them. Or they all stay in the game and you simply replay the game.

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