Swap the Dot

Antonella—Italy
Age: 8-9
Times: 15 minutes
Materials: Circles of card. Each circle has either a color or a number on it. Use actual colors and write numbers (e.g. 5), rather than writing the words.
Organization: Whole class.
Aim: To practice recognizing and saying number words and colors.
Description: Each child has a card with either a color or a number. The teacher calls out a number and a color. The children with these cards must stand up, shout out their colors or numbers, and swap cards.
Preparation: You will need to prepare the card circles, depending on the number of children in the class. For 20 children, you will need 10 color cards and 10 number cards. The colors can be red, yellow, pink, blue, green, black, white, grey, orange, brown, for example.
Procedures

1. Ask the children to stand in a circle and give each one a card.
2. Practice the vocabulary. You can do this by pointing to each card, saying the word and asking the children to repeat; by saying a word and asking the child with the card to hold it up; by going round the circle and asking each child to say their word, and so on. 
3. Now play the game. Call out a number and a color, for example, five and orange. The children with these cards must come to the center, shout out their words and then swap their cards.
4. Repeat until all the children have swapped cards. 
5. Now ask each child to say what is on their new card.

Notes:
Once you have made the cards, you can use them to revise colors and numbers. You can also write the color or number on the back of the cards and use these to teach the written form.
Alternatives

1. If you have a larger class, you can add another group to the numbers and colors, for example, animals. The teacher then calls out three words – for example, ‘5, blue, tiger’ – and the children swap three cards.
2. When the children have all swapped cards, they can put them face down and the class can try to remember which child has which card.
3. Put all the cards face down on the floor (with the number/colour facing the floor). Children take it in turns to turn up two cards. If they can say the names correctly, they keep the cards. If not, the cards are put back in the same place.

Reference 
Crazy Animals and Other Activities for Teaching English to Young Learners Download PDF