💛 Indoor Color Scavenger Hunt
Búsqueda del tesoro de colores
💛 Social-Emotional
Rainy Day
SEL.K.2SL.K.1WL.K.1
Objective: Build vocabulary, focus, and persistence by hunting for household items that match Spanish color words.
🧺 Materials
- a basket or bag
- household objects already around the home
📋 Instructions (parent)
- Give your child a basket and read one color from the list aloud in Spanish.
- Send them off to find one thing in the house of that color.
- Cheer when they bring it back and name the object together in Spanish.
- Continue down the list, celebrating each find.
- When done, lay out all the treasures and count them together.
➕ Extension ideas
- Hunt by shape instead of color, like round or square.
- Have your child make a list of colors for you to find next.
🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish
Español
¡Vamos a buscar un tesoro en casa! Yo te voy a decir un color y tú tienes que encontrar algo de ese color y traerlo a la canasta. ¿Puedes encontrar algo rojo? ¡Corre a buscar!
💬 Conversation prompts
- ¿Qué cosa roja encontraste?
- ¿Dónde estaba escondida?
- ¿De qué otro color hay cosas aquí?
- ¿Cuántos tesoros encontraste en total?
🔑 Vocabulary
- buscar — to look for
- tesoro — treasure
- rojo — red
- azul — blue
- amarillo — yellow
- encontrar — to find
Other ways to do it
⚡ 5-minute version
Find just one thing of each of three colors.
🚗 Car version
Spot colors out the window and name each one in Spanish.
😴 No-energy version
Point to colored things in the room without getting up.
📝 Printable ()
- {'es': 'algo rojo', 'en': 'something red'}
- {'es': 'algo azul', 'en': 'something blue'}
- {'es': 'algo amarillo', 'en': 'something yellow'}
- {'es': 'algo verde', 'en': 'something green'}
- {'es': 'algo blanco', 'en': 'something white'}
- {'es': 'algo negro', 'en': 'something black'}
🎯 California standards covered
| SEL.K.2 | Managing My Feelings “I can take deep breaths and calm down when I have big feelings.” |
| SL.K.1 | Taking Part in Conversations “I can take turns talking and listening when I have a conversation.” |
| WL.K.1 | Exploring Spanish “I can say hello, count, and name colors in Spanish.” |