Colour Game - Outcome A (K-3)-7

This game can be played on the type of creative play structure that is found in most school playgrounds.

Divide the students into three groups. One group is red, one is blue, and the other is yellow (primary colours). Ask children what two colours make green, then purple, then orange. Children can then move around freely over the playground equipment.

As the teacher calls out a secondary colour (green, purple or orange), children who represent the primary colours that make up the secondary colour must get together and travel in an attached manner. They stay together until the next colour is called. (For example, when purple is called, a blue child and a red child must be together.) Change the colours often.

Stress basic skills such as twisting, turning, balancing, running, climbing and sliding as the children move about in the play structure.

Modify the game to set criteria such as: travel only on one foot, or join hands with the student who represents the other colour. Always remember safety is your number one priority.

These are clues that you have reached the outcomes ...

Students are moving in control and balancing on the equipment without falling.

Students are aware of and demonstrate safe movement for this equipment/environment.

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