Colours- Guessing Game
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Guess the colour games.
Lesson Plan Content:
Colours guessing game
Instructions for teachers
Cut up the cards together in pairs with the colour words connected to the objects above them, so that each card says “It’s a/ an… It’s (colour)”. Let a student choose one which they think is difficult for their classmates to guess the colour of by one of these options:
- looking through them all spread out on the table
- choosing one from the ones that were dealt out to them
- taking three from the pack and choosing the trickiest one to guess
The read out just the name of the object and then ask “What colour is it?” They get one point for each time someone guesses wrongly. Guesses could be in the forms:
- Is it (colour)?
- It is (colour).
- It is a(n) (colour) (object).
- Is it a(n) (colour) (object)?
The other students must guess exactly the colour written on the card, not other possible colours. All the colours are possible in real life, but some are less common and so more difficult to guess.
Before starting, you could demonstrate that some cards are really easy to guess the colour of (e.g. “a brown box”) and some are quite tricky (e.g. “a pink piano”).
Variations
There is also a single-sentence version of the activity which is useful if you want to encourage the answer “It’s a (colour) (object)”. However, the person asking the question will have to be careful to only say “It’s a/ an (object)” as a hint, not repeating the colour word in the middle of the card. They also sometimes have to swap between “a” and “an”, e.g. if the card says “It’s an orange monkey” with “an” but the hint is “It’s a monkey” with “a”.
For more colour word recognition practice, you could also get them to point at, slap or grab the colour words on the next page below as they make their guesses.
Colour word cards for responses
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black
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blue |
brown |
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dark blue
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gold |
green |
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grey
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orange |
pink |
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purple
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red |
silver |
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white
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yellow |
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Objects to the guess the colours of
Cut up with the colour words below connected to the object words above each time, so that “It’s an apple. It’s green” is together on one card.
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It’s an apple. |
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It’s green. |
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It’s an apple. |
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It’s red. |
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It’s an ant. |
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It’s red. |
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It’s a postman’s bag. |
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It’s orange. |
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It’s a baseball bat. |
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It’s silver. |
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It’s a bird. |
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It’s green. |
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It’s a bus. |
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It’s red. |
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It’s a cat. |
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It’s orange. |
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It’s a chair. |
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It’s brown. |
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It’s a dog. |
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It’s black. |
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It’s a door. |
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It’s brown. |
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It’s an egg. |
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It’s brown. |
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It’s an egg. |
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It’s white. |
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It’s an eye. |
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It’s blue. |
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It’s an eye. |
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It’s green. |
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It’s an eye. |
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It’s brown. |
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It’s a fish. |
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It’s silver. |
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It’s a fork. |
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It’s silver. |
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It’s a grape. |
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It’s green. |
It’s a grape. |
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It’s purple. |
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It’s a policeman’s hat. |
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It’s dark blue. |
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It’s a student’s hat. |
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It’s yellow. |
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It’s a house. |
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It’s brown. |
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It’s an ice cream. |
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It’s pink. |
It’s an insect. |
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It’s green. |
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It’s a teacher’s jacket. |
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It’s brown. |
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It’s a key. |
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It’s silver. |
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It’s a kite. |
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It’s black. |
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It’s a ladder. |
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It’s silver. |
It’s a monkey. |
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It’s brown. |
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It’s a mouse. |
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It’s white. |
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It’s a mouth. |
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It’s pink. |
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It’s a mouth. |
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It’s red. |
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It’s a nut. |
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It’s brown. |
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It’s an octopus. |
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It’s pink. |
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It’s a pen. |
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It’s blue. |
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It’s a piano. |
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It’s pink. |
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It’s a plate. |
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It’s white. |
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It’s a queen’s crown. |
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It’s gold. |
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It’s a rabbit. |
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It’s white. |
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It’s a ring. |
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It’s silver. |
It’s a doctor’s shirt. |
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It’s green. |
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It’s a skirt. |
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It’s pink. |
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It’s a snake. |
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It’s green. |
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It’s a spoon. |
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It’s gold. |
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It’s a suit. |
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It’s grey. |
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It’s a taxi. |
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It’s yellow. |
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It’s a tie. |
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It’s red. |
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It’s an umbrella. |
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It’s black. |
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It’s a vegetable. |
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It’s orange. |
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It’s a violin. |
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It’s brown. |
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It’s a watch. |
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It’s gold. |
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It’s a whale. |
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It’s white. |
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It’s a box. |
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It’s brown. |
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It’s a fox. |
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It’s white. |
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It’s yoghurt. |
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It’s purple. |
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It’s a zebra. |
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It’s black and white. |
Single sentence version
Don’t say the colour when you tell the other people what object they should guess the colour of, instead just saying “It’s a zebra”, etc.
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It’s a green apple. |
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It’s a red apple. |
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It’s a red ant. |
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It’s an orange bag. |
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It’s orange. |
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It’s a silver bat. |
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It’s a green bird. |
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It’s a red bus. |
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It’s an orange cat. |
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It’s a brown chair. |
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It’s a black dog. |
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It’s a brown door. |
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It’s a brown egg. |
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It’s a white egg. |
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It’s a blue eye. |
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It’s a silver fish. |
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It’s a silver fork. |
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It’s a green grape. |
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It’s a purple grape. |
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It’s a dark blue hat. |
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It’s a yellow hat. |
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It’s a brown house. |
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It’s a pink ice cream. |
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It’s a green insect. |
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It’s an orange jacket. |
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It’s a silver key. |
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It’s a black kite. |
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It’s a silver ladder. |
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It’s a brown monkey. |
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It’s a white mouse. |
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It’s a red mouth. |
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It’s a brown nut. |
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It’s a pink octopus. |
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It’s a blue pen. |
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It’s a pink piano. |
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It’s a white plate. |
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It’s a gold crown. |
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It’s a white rabbit. |
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It’s a silver ring. |
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It’s a green shirt. |
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It’s a pink skirt. |
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It’s a green snake. |
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It’s a gold spoon. |
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It’s a grey suit. |
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It’s a yellow taxi. |
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It’s a red tie. |
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It’s a black umbrella. |
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It’s a red vegetable. |
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It’s a brown violin. |
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It’s a gold watch. |
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It’s a white whale. |
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It’s a brown box. |
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It’s a white fox. |
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It’s a white yacht. |
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It’s purple yoghurt. |
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It’s a silver zip. |
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