Friday, January 11, 2013

Rainbow Map Game

So when Kallen takes his morning nap (which I can't wait for him to be done with) I often hear the words, "Mom, I'm bored."  So I randomly came up with what we call, "The Rainbow Map Game" and needless to say it made 45 minutes of our morning fly by.

DIRECTIONS
  • Get a piece of paper and make color squares for each color of the rainbow.
  • Finally make an X at the bottom symbolizing the end of the map.
  • Set timer for 5 min (each round decrease the minute, ex. 4 min, 3 min....)
  • Say go, and watch your children run around the house looking for an item with that color.  They then put the item in the bag and once they collected all the colors they rush to bring it back to you before time is up.
  • If succeed, they get a taste of the rainbow, one Skittle.
  • If failed, they have to try it again.
The game also worked using shapes (not age appropriate for Caleb).
Note to self, collecting all the items and then putting them away also takes a good 10 minutes :)
Hope your kids have just as much fun as mine.


4 comments:

Sandy said...

Sounds like fun!!

Shawn and Amelia said...

Great idea for a winter day!

Jeremiah and Stephanie said...

Great idea! We're definitely going to try this!

Anonymous said...

Great game.
G K