Colours — English games for kids (online + printable)

Aylara A.
Kids' teacher · founder of AylaraTalks
The Colours topic gives you 12 concrete, drawable, act-out-able words — ideal game material for young learners. Below: the full word list, five ways to play it (each opens a game with this topic already loaded), and the printables for offline lessons.
A word becomes the child's own after roughly seven meetings. One topic, several different games — that's how the meetings happen without a single drill.
The words (12)
- 🔴 red — красный
- 🟠 orange — оранжевый
- 🟡 yellow — жёлтый
- 🟢 green — зелёный
- 🔵 blue — синий
- 🟣 purple — фиолетовый
- 🩷 pink — розовый
- 🟤 brown — коричневый
- ⚫ black — чёрный
- ⚪ white — белый
- 🩶 gray — серый
- 🌟 gold — золотой
Five ways to play them
- Memory Match — picture↔word pairs from the Colours set; every flip is said aloud. Two-player mode for student vs teacher.
- Bingo — you call the words, kids hunt their cards: listening practice with a winner's shout at the end.
- Flip Cards — the deck on screen: picture first, the child names it, flip to check. Great for the first meeting with the words.
- Word Scramble — the topic's shorter words, letter by letter: spelling dressed as a puzzle.
- Balloon Words — save the word before the balloons fly away: the alphabet drill children ask to repeat.
Print & go
For offline lessons (or online students with a printer), the same Colours words come as A4 printables: cut-out flashcards with three label options, a one-page poster for the wall, unique bingo sheets with a caller's list, and a matching worksheet with an upside-down answer key.
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Take this with you
One topic, 12 words, five games and four printables: enough material for two or three lessons plus the review that makes it stick. Pick six words to master per lesson — the rest will follow.
Put it into play
Everything here pairs with our free classroom games — no prep, no accounts.

About the author
Kids' teacher · founder of AylaraTalks
Aylara is a kids' teacher who spent years hand-making every classroom game — cutting cards and drawing boards on paper sheets. She created AylaraTalks so no teacher has to start from a blank page again.
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Colours Vocabulary Presentation (Free PPT)
Free colours vocabulary presentation for ESL kids: 12 picture slides with audio, a quick check and a review grid. Present online or get PPT.