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Rainbow refreshments

Finish first in this food fight by matching the colours to the goodies on your bingo-cards.
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You’ll need

  • Pens or pencils
  • A4 paper
  • Scissors
  • Rulers
  • A hat or box
Bingo cards and colour card pieces
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Get prepped

  • The person leading the activity should cut out the bingo cards from each ‘Bingo cards and colour card pieces’ sheet.
  • There should be one card for each member of the group.
  • The person leading the activity should cut out the individual colour card pieces from the sheet.
  • Put these in the hat and mix them around.

Ready, steady, bingo!

  1. The person leading the activity should give out the bingo cards and a pen or pencil to each member of the group.
  1. The person leading the activity should have the hat with the ‘Colour card pieces’ in it, a piece of paper and a pen or pencil. Explain to the group that they’ll be playing a game of bingo.
  2. The person leading the activity will read out a colour as they draw it out of the hat. Everyone should cross off the foods or drinks on their cards that are that colour (e.g. cross off ‘banana’ for ‘yellow’).
  3. The first person to cross off all the foods or drinks on their card should shout ‘Bingo!’
  4. As they’re reading out colours, the person leading the activity should write down on their piece of paper all the colours that they’ve read out. This’ll allow them to check any winners.
  5. When someone shouts ‘Bingo!’ the person leading the activity should check their card to see if their call is correct.

Reflection

The group has tested their knowledge of food colours. For what colours did you cross off the most foods? Which colour foods seemed to you to be the healthiest? Was there are common colour for unhealthy foods?

Each colour read out by the person leading the activity led the bingo players to have to look at their bingo cards closely to see if any of their foods were that colour. Were there any foods that you weren’t sure about, colour-wise? How many colours did you need to complete your card? How might playing bingo with food colours help to remind us to eat a varied diet?

Safety

All activities must be safely managed. You must complete a thorough risk assessment and take appropriate steps to reduce risk. Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. Always get approval for the activity, and have suitable supervision and an InTouch process.

Changing the speed that the person leading the activity calls out the colours can make this challenge easier or hard.

Make it accessible

All Scout activities should be inclusive and accessible.

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The person leading the activity should make copies of the final page of the ‘Rainbow refreshments bingo cards’ sheet, which should contain some blank bingo cards. They could also make their own with paper, a pencil and a ruler.

Everyone should make their own bingo cards by filling the blank squares in with some foods that they like to eat for another round of bingo. The only rule is that the foods they choose must be one colour. They might decide to gamble and favour one colour of food, or try to include a wide range of colours so that they can cross off more squares more often. See which bingo cards are the most successful.

Let young people decide what colour they think each food item is.