- boxes (2; each labeled a different color)
- markers
- music player
- paper
- color
- hunt
MA Standards:
Language/L.PK.MA.1: Demonstrate use of oral language in informal everyday activities.
Measurement and Data/PK.MD.MA.3: Sort, categorize, and classify objects by more than one attribute.
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Expressive Language: Engages in communication and conversation with others.
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving: Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
Mathematics/Patterns and Relations 8: Sort, categorize, or classify objects by more than one attribute.
Color Hunt
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Skill Focus: Color Recognition, Math, Follow Directions
Divide children into two teams and assign each team a team color.
Tell children they will play a color hunt game while listening to music.
Explain that when the music is playing, they will hunt for as many objects of their team color as possible.
- Say, When you find an object, place it in your team color box. But, when the music stops, you freeze or stand still.
- After children have hunted for items, help them count the items in their box.
- Have children use color vocabulary to describe the things in the boxes.