Colorful Scarf Shower

The teacher tosses a handful of colored scarves into the air, each child catches or picks up one and does that color's move: red jumps, blue spins, yellow jogs, green crawls. It warms up the body with different ways of moving and works on attention to a color cue.

How to play

1. In a circle, the teacher shows each color and its move: red jumps, blue spins, yellow jogs, green crawls (1 min).
2. The teacher tosses the scarves into the air in the middle: “Rain shower!”; each child grabs one, from the air or the ground (1 min).
3. Everyone checks their color and does its move around the playground until the teacher says “Cloud!” (1 min).
4. Give the scarves back to the teacher, who tosses them again, and we get a new color (2 min).
5. Last shower: we all drop our scarves in a pile and walk slowly around it (1 min).

Rules

• Grab just one scarf, the closest one.
• If two children grab the same one, the one who got there second lets go and finds another.
• Do your color's move until you hear “Cloud!”

Variations

Adaptations

• Limited mobility: the teacher tosses a scarf close by, and the moves are with the arms (red up high, blue windmill…).
• Visual impairment: a classmate tells them their color, or scarves are knotted differently by color.
• Autism: they can stay by the teacher and take a scarf from their hand instead of the shower.

Learning goals

• Match a color to a movement.
• Practice different ways of moving.
• Catch or pick up a falling object.

Equipment for a class of 25

• pañuelos de colores: 28

Teacher tip

Toss the scarves high and spread out so they don't land in one spot and cause collisions. Post a sign with the four colors and a picture for each (jumping feet, top, sneaker, kitten) so children don't rely on memory.

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