Practice colors and shapes together while trying to get five in a row to win the game.

Number of players: 2 to 12 players or teams

Skills practiced:

• color recognition
• shape recognition
• matching
• same and different
• sorting by attributes

Description of play:
Players choose a playing board and gather a pile of small markers such as beans, pennies, or torn pieces of paper (monitor very young children with these!). Players then take turns picking a calling card and reading out the color and shape represented on the card, such as red circle or pink diamond. Every player who has that color and shape combination on their board may cover the square with a marker, and the first player to cover 5 squares in a row wins the game. Special rainbow-colored shapes in the center of each board make play more interesting, and additional shapes cards are provided for extension activities.

This printable PDF file includes:

• 12 different playing boards
• Deck of 60 calling cards
• BONUS deck of shapes cards for extension activities