Resources

• Colors Flash Cards

How to play

Time: 5-7 minutes
Receptive Language: instructions, ‘Touch [coloured shape]’
Productive Language: shapes & colours
Game Explanation: Review shapes & colours. Pin or tape a coloured shape to each student’s back. Call out ‘Touch a [coloured shape]’. Every student must search for & touch the coloured shape you’ve called out.

Resources

• None

How to play
Time: 6 minutes
Receptive Language: instructions, colours, body parts
Productive Language: colours, body parts
Game Explanation: Basically an extended version of Colour Touch, Dr Feelgood is played by having the students touch various items of a certain colour (as decided and called out by you, the instructor, at least at first) with specified body parts (hand, nose, knee, etc).

Resources

• Coloring pages
• Crayons - Amazon #Ad

How to play

Time: 12 minutes
Receptive Language: instructions, colours
Productive Language: colours
Game Explanation: Before class, prepare some colour-by-numbers worksheets, with the areas to be coloured in identified in English (‘BLUE’). Place some coloured pieces of paper with the colour name written on each at the other end of the classroom. Students must check their colouring sheets, race to the other end of the classroom to find out what colour goes where, and race back to colour the sheet. The first student to correctly colour his or her worksheet is the winner.
Note: This can also be played as a team game, but you’ll probably need much bigger colouring sheets.

Resources

• Floor tape - Amazon #Ad
• Floor chalk - Amazon #Ad

How to play

Time: 8-10 minutes
Receptive Language: instructions, ‘I love (colour)’, ‘I hate (colour)’
Productive Language: ‘I love / hate (colour)’
Game Explanation: Make a large circle on the floor with chalk or tape & tell the students that they will be disqualified if they venture outside of the circle. Begin the game by becoming ‘It’ & calling out ‘I love red!’ For ten seconds chase any students wearing red (remember to enforce the within-the-circle-only rule). Any students you tag must stand at the edge of the circle, straddling the tape or chalk line with their legs widely spaces. After the ten seconds are up, call out ‘I hate blue!’ Any students wearing blue do rock scissors paper & the winner becomes the new ‘It’, calls out ‘I love green!’ & chases any students wearing that colour. During the 10 second chase that ensues any students wearing green can free the students tagged in the first round by crawling through their legs. Continue play until all of the students have had a chance to be it, if possible.