Colour Mela (Game)-mr
COLOUR MELA
The Holi festival of colours is also known as the festival of love and unity.
Values Inculcated:
- Alertness with improved listening skills
- Unity
Materials Required:
- Chalk piece /markers
- Music player (alternatively guru can sing bhajans
Preparatory Effort:
- Draw a circle on floor
- Size should be small for small group and big for large group.
Team size: minimum 15 – 20 children
- Divide the children into groups of almost equal size.
- Assign a colour (red/blue/green/yellow) to each group.
- Music/Bhajan should start playing in the background
- Children will go around the circle.
- After few rounds the Guru will call out the colour.
- Children who belong to that colour group should get inside the circle. If Red is called out all children belonging to the RED GROUP have to be inside the circle.
- If a child / children from the RED GROUP IS OUTSIDE, he/she/they are considered to be out of the game
- If children from other colour groups are inside the circle, they are considered to be out of the game.
- The game then continues till the next colour gets selected.
- Play till last six children remain.
- Group with maximum number of children becomes the winner.