Rainbow Train Game for Kids
This rainbow train game for kids is perfect for any season! It’s bright and colorful, is engaging for kids of many ages, and teaches counting, basic graphing, and colors all in one game. Plus, it’s print and play! So round up the kids and grab some colored buttons and game pieces and dive into this transportation delight.
You can grab your own FREE printable of this game at the end of this post!
Kids love trains. The loud whistle, the train track, the connecting train cars… it’s just delightful! Since we love to incorporate interesting themes into preschool learning, this rainbow train game is the perfect way to play trains.
One of the major benefits of this train game printable is that it teaches:
- counting and numeracy
- color recognition
- sorting
- graphing
We love including this rainbow counting train game in addition to our daily lessons for preschool math including counting 0-20 and graphing.
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Train Games
Now this rainbow train game is all about fun counting practice. The best part is that it can be used in so many themes! It fits in perfectly with a rainbow theme or St. Patrick’s Day spring theme. Or it’s a terrific add-on to your transportation unit.
It can even be used at Christmas time! Think the Polar Express!
I love a versatile counting game that makes for fun learning AND learning to count!
Train Books for Preschoolers
Grab some terrific train books to incorporate into your train learning theme. We have picked some of our favorite train books that our preschoolers love to read.
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- Adams, Jodi (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 40 Pages – 05/19/2021 (Publication Date) – Young At Heart Publishing (Publisher)
- Lenski, Lois (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 32 Pages – 09/24/2002 (Publication Date) – Random House Books for Young Readers (Publisher)
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Crews, Donald (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Awdry, Rev. W. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 96 Pages – 01/08/2008 (Publication Date) – Random House Books for Young Readers (Publisher)
Rainbow Train Game
Even though it’s a preschool counting game, older kids love this train game, too.
This game teaches basic math, including counting skills, and even a little graphing, as well as taking turns and following rules, plus color recognition!
And, might I add that this is a perfect game to play for St. Patrick’s Day!
What’s Included
This game includes two pages of track (which equals about roughly 4 feet of track laid out) and three scorecard graphs for your little ones to track how many of each color was collected.
Materials
- FREE printable (at the end of this post)
- game pieces
- homemade die (numerals 1-3)
- rainbow color buttons
The Set-Up
Print and laminate the train printable. Cut the train tracks along the black lines, and assemble in order to make one very, very long train track.
Give each player a graphing scorecard and a game piece.
How to Play the Rainbow Train Game
Because this game teaches the colors of the rainbow, it was great our St. Patrick’s Day party, too!
Play is simple and straight-forward. This is not a game where there is a real winner. Rather, players work to collect buttons for their “train”.
- Select a player to go first. Roll the die and move the game piece the corresponding number of train tracks.
- Identify the color of the train track and find a matching colored button.
- Add the button to the corresponding column on the graphing score sheet.
- Continue play until all payers have reached the end of the track.
- Count how many of each color was collected.
I like to use a 1-3 die for this game for a couple of reasons. This game is excellent practice for learning one to one correspondence skills, so a 1-3 die works nicely, especially for young preschoolers who are just learning.
Since one to one correspondence is one of the most important math skills a preschooler learns, a 1-3 die is great reinforcement! Plus, a die with smaller numerals makes the game last a little longer, which means that the children get to spend more time working on their graphing skills!
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Product on sale* Daily Lessons in Counting Preschool Math Unit BundleOriginal price was: $48.00.$39.00Current price is: $39.00.
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Free Train Games
These free train games are full of learning fun! We’ve included numbers, shapes, and alphabet train activities to keep the transportation theme rolling.
- Geometry Shape Train Activity
- Alphabet Train Game
- Number Train Puzzle
- Train Tracks Alphabet Game Cards
Rainbow Games for Kids
Rainbows bring us a smile and these rainbow shamrock games and crafts are sure to liven up your day too.
Rainbow Preschool Toys
These hands-on preschool rainbow toys are full of color and joy! They are absolutely perfect for engaging little hands in learning, fine motor, and creative play. A perfect addition to your rainbow preschool theme!
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Get Your FREE Rainbow Train Counting Game
Think this is something your preschooler will adore? (Just trust me, the answer is yes). You can get your own copy by clicking the picture below. Do you have a favorite preschool counting game the kids love?
More Preschool Counting and Color Activities
I’m Sarah, an educator turned stay-at-home-mama of five! I’m the owner and creator of Stay At Home Educator, a website about intentional teaching and purposeful learning in the early childhood years. I’ve taught a range of levels, from preschool to college and a little bit of everything in between. Right now my focus is teaching my children and running a preschool from my home. Credentials include: Bachelors in Art, Masters in Curriculum and Instruction.
Hi, I love your resources for colors and shapes! I’ve had some trouble (hit or miss) buying packs of buttons on Amazon. Regarding the link above, have you bought more than 1 package before? I’d like to make sure everything I’ll need is in each pack. Thanks! -RH
Actually, the link in the materials section for the buttons are not the ones I used. I just grabbed some standard sized buttons in all the rainbow colors for this activity. You can grab them here: https://amzn.to/2KqKJEu That’s what size fits the printable best.
As for attribute buttons, I like these best https://amzn.to/2tKFQPp
But I added some large circle buttons to the mix. https://amzn.to/2lAtbuS
Hello, I clicked on the link above and subscribed but I got a link for valentine’s pattern blocks instead of the colour train activity? Am I going wrong somewhere? Thanks!
I had the wrong code in the download, but it is now fixed. Sorry about that. It should download just fine now.
The rainbow train game is missing when I when click on the download link for it
The link to the download is at the very end of the post. It’s a large image. But, I had the wrong code in the download, if that is what you are referring to. It’s all fixed now. Sorry about that. It should download just fine now.
I’m interested in the rainbow train game, I can’t find the link… it is super cute!
The link is the form near the end of the post with the house image on it.