Rainbow treasure hunt
Go on a colour hunt around the house, park, or garden and find matching objects. Great for building early learning skills while getting little bodies moving.
There’s something joyful about searching for colours! Whether you’re out and about or at home, this playful colour hunt helps kids build colour recognition, categorising skills, and observational awareness.
You can simply spot colours while on a walk or make a simple play invitation by laying down coloured play silks, paper squares, or drawings (like the Aboriginal flag example in photos) and invite your child to find objects to match.
This works brilliantly as a quiet indoor play idea or a...
Materials
Prep
Lay out colour squares or a visual colour map for collecting.
Play
Step 1:
Invite your child to find objects that match each colour in the play setup.
Step 2:
Sort objects by colour on the grid, mats, or drawing.
Step 3:
Play together or give them independent scavenger time.
Extend
Build a flag: Draw culturally significant flags and find items matching those colours.
Memory challenge: After collecting, hide the objects and see how many they can remember by colour.
Colour mix: Challenge them to think of which colour could go in between two, e.g. add purple between red and yellow objects.
