“Simon Says” eat your heart out! This idea is pure “Today Is Fun:” it’s simple, fun, and free. (Well, it pretty much should be free.)
Here’s what you need to do:
Find some objects that clearly represent all the colors of the rainbow. Colored paper, such as construction paper, works the best. Ideally, you can find some scraps of paper that are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. You could add more colors — black, white, brown and gray — but to start off, keep it simple with fewer colors.
(If you don’t have any colored paper on hand, you could have your kids make some paper for you to use. Take some white scraps of paper, and have the kids color one red, another orange, another yellow, and so on.)
(You could also have the kids write “red” on a card. That would work well and make for a good “second round.”)
Next, with your kids’ input, assign some meanings to each color.
Red could be “sing a little song” or “spell out a word.”
Blue could be “Stand up, sit down, then stand up.”[more]
Orange could be “go munch on a carrot stick.”
You get the idea.
The trick for the kids is to remember what each color means. This can be tricky — but it’s not impossible.
Then you hold up the colors for the kids. Don’t use any words or talking, and see whether they can remember each color’s activity.
(Thank you to szeretlek_ma for the colorful photo above.)
