Description: For this activity, I combined an obstacle course and a scavenger hunt. They had to run through a series of obstacles, and grab a piece of paper with a colour on it. Then, they had to find an object in the house of the same colour. They would put it in a coloured circle on a large piece of paper. I also added some rules to prevent them from grabbing only markers: “you cannot pick the same object for two colours”. Some new obstacle ideas: have them roll a train along a wooden train track. Grab a piece of Lego from the top of one couch and put it on a Lego base on another couch. The latter was to get them doing some climbing.
Age: 3-4+
Purpose:
Gross motor
Colour matching
Search and find
Following directions
Prep time: moderate to extensive, you have to set up the obstacle course, make coloured pieces of paper and coloured circles for them to put the objects in
What you’ll need: Pieces of paper, markers to make the colours, and items for the obstacle course
Fun Factor: This was a motivating course. They went through and found objects for every colour and did not need encouragement. However, they did try to use markers for every colour. So I had to remind them to pick a variety of objects. The train portion of the obstacle was well liked, but was a little distracting for my little Thomas fan. Moving Lego from couch to couch was also a favourite part of the course.
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