I Can Sing A Rainbow: Circle Game

With St Patrick’s Day coming along soon, here is a lovely circle game to go with the popular song ‘I Can Sing a Rainbow’. It’s perfect to fit in with a St Paddy’s/ Rainbow theme but as it’s such fun the children will probably want to play it at any other time of year too!

Most children are familiar with the well known song “I Can Sing a Rainbow”. It’s a great favourite and brilliant for learning colours.

The Rainbow Song

Red and yellow and pink and green,

Orange and purple and blue,

I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, 

Sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow too! 

Listen with your eyes, 

Listen with your ears,

And sing everything you see,

I can sing a rainbow, 

Sing a rainbow, sing along with me,

Red and yellow and pink and green,

Orange and purple and blue,

I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow, 

Sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow too! 

Print off I Can Sing A Rainbow sheet music

 How To Play The I Can Sing A Rainbow Circle Game

What you need

• Colour silk scarves or ribbon
• An unbreakable pot (I use a little shiny brass one)
• Pot of Gold Coins Rhythm game printable

How to play

• Pick one child to be the leprechaun.
• The rest of the group each pick a coloured scarf and form a curved horse-shoe shape by holding on to one end of the scarf, while the child next to them holds the other end and so on, until everyone is holding a scarf with both hands except the two children on each end.
• Everyone tries to lift their arms as high as they can, to make coloured arches for the ‘leprechaun’ to go under.
• Little ones might find this process quite complicated but if you let each child choose their scarf in turn, and then link up one by one, it avoids chaos!
• Give the leprechaun the pretend pot of gold and as everyone sings the song, they weave in and out of the arches.
• When they reaches the last child at the end of the rainbow, they should swap places and exchange the pot of gold for the scarf, so that the child on the end becomes the new leprechaun.
• Each leprechaun has their go of guarding the gold and weaving in and out of the rainbow.
• Repeat the song as many times as necessary, and the game finishes when everyone has been the leprechaun.

And while we’re talking about rainbows, here’s an all time favourite of mine! ☺️

For more musical activities for St Patrick’s day check out our special St Patrick’s day music lesson plan or our Spring and Easter Lesson Plan for plenty of bunnies and Hot Cross Buns!!

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