A Colourful Lesson

Teaching the colours can be one of the most fascinating lessons. 

Here are 20+ activities for young learners

1. Show the coloured pencils or markers or flashcards and say the colours

2. Talk about: What things are ....(green)? Make a collage of things having the same colours

3. Make a colour wheel, talk about primary & secondary colours, mixing colours, warm & cold colours

4. Talk about the rainbow colours
5. Make a fruit loop rainbow necklace and eat it too!

6. Play Hide & Seek: Ask  sts to Find sth ...red

7. Colour Race: ask sts to Touch sth...yellow

8. Colour a picture (numbers indicate which colours)

9. Memory : Display 10 coloured pencils or markers or cards and secretly take away a colour. ask sts to find out which colour is missing

10. Sing the Colour or Rainbow song

11. Play Silent balloons: students call out the colour if the balloon reaches them 

12. Play a rhyme game with house pictures: Little mouse, little mouse are you in the...red house?

13. Write a Senses poem  :

Red looks like, sounds like, smells like, feels like, tastes like.....

14. Fishing game: get as many colourful fish using a magnetic fishing rod

15. Read the stories:

The rainbow fish

How zebra got her stripes

The colourful chameleon
Brown Bear, What do you see?
Polar Bear, What can you hear?
Little Robin Red Vest
Zebra's Rainbow
The Mixed-Up Chameleon
16. Sing the action song: 
'We are the pirates with the coloured beards song', You tube song
17. Dress up like your favourite colour
18. Make a mini book about colours
19. Watch the Tweenies show 'Colours are MAGIC'
20. Show sts famous paintings and talk about the colours