Child development opportunities
To listen carefully and respond to the instructions To increase colour awareness and vocabulary To think about Christmas celebrations
How to play
* Explain that you are going to decorate a big Christmas tree and the children are going to be baubles.
* Ask them to choose a colour.
* Draw circles on the ground for each colour and ask the children to select one and stand in it.
* Draw an imaginary tree on the ground and explain that you will call out colours as you need them.
* When they hear their colour, they dance around the imaginary tree.
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