Colours Game for Identifying Different Colours

This fun and engaging colour game is the perfect colour activity to use with children prior to school to assist them with identifying and sorting different colours. Young children gain a lot of great skills when they can master identifying different colours including:

• Enhanced cognitive development.
• Expanded vocabulary and a great tool to be able to describe objects.
• Helps students to express themselves in creative ways through visual arts.
• Colours are also a great way to represent different emotions. For example, red for anger, blue for sadness.

How to Use this Colour Activity in the Classroom

Laminate the coloured gumball machines and the set of everyday coloured object cards. Ask the children to match the objects to their colour by sorting the cards into the gumball machine of the same colour.

This sorting game includes the following colours:

• red
• blue
• yellow
• purple
• green
• orange

Download and Explore Colours of Everyday Objects Today

Use the dropdown menu to choose between the easy to print PDF version of this resource or the editable Google Slide version. It is suggested that you laminate or print on thick card to ensure the durability of this resource especially for little hands!

Samantha Rose, a Teach Starter collaborator, contributed to this resource.

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