Red Elbow

 Sounds crazy right?  Well, it is and it was! The first week back from any break is always 

A mix bag of emotions–students are either tired from being up late all week, or fired up to

be back because they were bored all week.  I wanted to find class-building activity that would

put everyone in a good mood and set the tone for the last half of the school year.

Cleaning out some teacher files ( yes, the paper kind, not digital), I found an activity called

Red Elbow.  It is quite simple but the fun is tenfold

How to play:

The teacher calls out a color and a body part.

The students find an object in the room that is that color and then touch the 

selected body part to the object.

So when I said, blue thumb–students had to find something blue in the room and put

 their thumb on it.  Red elbow--you guessed it--put your elbow on something red. My favorite

was Yellow Ear…

Uhm, we quickly had to put 2 rules in place after playing a round: walking only when 

moving to the color, and the color needed to be in the room- NOT on a student!

We have played this game 3 times already and it is only Wednesday!