Colours ESL Games, Activities and Worksheets
Find Three

ESL Colours Game - Vocabulary: Matching - Group or Pair Work
In this engaging colours game, students find pictures that match with colours. The aim of the game is for students to find three pictures that match a colour vocabulary card. In groups, students take turns turning over three picture cards. If the three...
Colours Board Game

ESL Colours Board Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Gap-fill, Impromptu Speech, Freer Practice - Group Work
In this fun colours board game, students practice vocabulary related to colours and talk in response to topic-related prompts. In groups, students take turns picking up a card and reading the sentence...
Colours Crossword

ESL Colours Activity - Vocabulary: Unscrambling, Completing Gap-fill Clues, Describing, Guessing - Pair Work
In this free colours crossword activity, students complete a crossword by describing and guessing primary and secondary colours. In two groups, students unscramble letters to form the names of primary...
Rainbow Review

ESL Colours Worksheet - Vocabulary and Speaking Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill, Multiple Choice, Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled Practice - Pair Work
Here is a useful colours worksheet to help students practice the names of common colours. First, students match each colour with a suitable picture...
Colouring Dictation

ESL Colours Activity - Vocabulary, Speaking and Listening: Gap-fill, Describing, Drawing, Controlled and Freer Practice - Pair Work
This fun colours activity helps students review colours and phrases to describe the colour of an object. In two groups, students begin by completing the names of 11 colours with vowels. Students then add...
Life in Colour

ESL Colours Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Identifying, Crossword, Sentence Completion - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work
This comprehensive colours worksheet helps students practice the names of colours in English. To begin, students look at words in a box and match them with...
Colours Quiz

ESL Colours Quiz - Speaking: Unscrambling, Asking and Answering Multiple-Choice Questions, Guessing - Pair Work
In this entertaining colours quiz, students form trivia questions about colours and then take part in a quiz where they ask and answer the questions with a partner. In groups, students put words in the correct order...
Beyond the Rainbow

ESL Colour Games - Vocabulary: Pelmanism, Gap-fill, Guessing - Pair Work
Here are creative two colour games to help students practice adjectives related to colour and the names of less common colours. First, in pairs, students play a pelmanism game where they take turns turning over a definition card and a colour vocabulary...
Colourful Language

ESL Colours Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Unscrambling, Matching, Categorising, Gap-fill - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work
Here is a productive colours worksheet to help students practice or review verbs, nouns and adjectives related to colour. First, students unscramble the names of...