One of my favorite things about teaching yoga to young children is the infinite ways to turn children’s love of sharing about themselves into a game AND a way to practice yoga!
The Color Yoga Game allows children to share their favorite colors with the yoga teacher and their friends and is a HIT in my classes for children ages 3-5.
Rules:
teacher names a color and shows a yoga pose card
any child who likes that color does the pose
children may select as many colors as they want!
This is an easy and fun way to get children to practice many yoga poses. I recommend holding the pose and counting to 5 or 10.
Here are some colors you can use during the game: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, white, black, brown, RAINBOW (a preschool favorite color), peach, teal, beige/tan, indigo, violet, maroon, gold, silver
Andrea Creel, MSW, LMSW, E-RYT 200, YACEP
Andrea is the founder of Shining Kids Yoga, which began as an after-school program at her son's elementary school in 2014. She has been teaching yoga to all ages since 2005. Andrea completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training at Tranquil Space Yoga in Washington, D.C. In addition, she received specialized training in children’s yoga from the Radiant Child Yoga program, training in postnatal yoga from Baby OM, and training in therapeutic yoga from The Samarya Center.
Andrea is the author of Mystery Pose: A Yoga Guessing Game (affiliate link) and the creator of two yoga card games for kids: Double the Fun Yoga Cards and Yoga Pose or Dare. She is also the creator and facilitator of the Shining Kids Yoga Kids Yoga Teacher Training, a 17-hour certification program in teaching yoga to kids.
When not teaching or practicing yoga, Andrea enjoys playing board games with her son, Quinn, singing karaoke, and trying out new vegetarian recipes!
