Rainbow Hop

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Free Rainbow Hop game for kids

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Practises
counting, making ten, adding, taking away and more
Youngest age
5+ (E)
On a Chromebook
Yes
Controls
Tap or click
First step
Pick your team
Time
No fixed length: stop whenever you like. On a class link or the board, the classroom bar's timer (1, 2 or 5 minutes) ends it for everyone.
Setup
No accounts, no download, no sign-in. One each on Chromebooks, or on the board with one child driving while the class calls out; the header's Share gives you the link and a QR code for the class.
Print
Print the game sheet

About Rainbow Hop

Rainbow Hop is a free team game for kids, with math and reading. Three teams of two, three or four sheep race up a rainbow by hopping over fat little piggies. Your child's sheep hops when they answer a question, and the whole team rises one colour, from red to violet, when every sheep on it has hopped.

What this practises, for teachers

Practices counting (K.CC.A.1), making ten (K.OA.A.4), adding within 20 (1.OA.C.6) and times tables (3.OA.C.7). Played with tap or click, runs in Chrome, no accounts.

How to play Rainbow Hop

Team race · numbers and words. Be the first team to climb the whole rainbow. A team rises one colour each time every sheep on it has hopped its piggy.

  1. Pick your team. Two, three or four sheep on a team (never more). The rest of your team and the other two teams are friendly computer sheep.
  2. Hop your piggy. When your piggy trots in, answer the question and your sheep hops over it. A wrong box fades and the question stays open.
  3. Rise together. Your team rises a colour, red to violet, when every sheep on it has hopped. A sheep that misses boings off the piggy's tummy and tries again.
  4. Ride the balloon. The first team to violet floats up in Captain Hoot's balloon and slides down every colour, and then candy falls on everybody who played.

What Rainbow Hop practises

Counting, making ten, adding, taking away, times tables, division, first sounds, rhymes, phonics, sight words, spelling and vocabulary, with questions from Pre-K to 5th grade. For ages 5 and up (rated E). Controls: tap or click. Needs a mouse? No: tap. On a school Chromebook, it runs in Chrome with nothing to install. No sign-up, no ads and nothing to buy.

To print and go with it: a Rainbow Hop score sheet, Kindergarten addition within 5 worksheets, the multiplication chart and decodable readers to print.

Each colour has a row of piggies that trot in, one for each sheep on the team. The child's sheep hops its piggy when the child answers a question with one of three big boxes; the teammates and the two rival teams are friendly computer sheep. A team only rises when every sheep on it has hopped, so the race is about the whole team, not one fast hopper. If a sheep misjudges a hop it boings off the piggy's tummy, the piggy giggles, and it tries again. No sheep is hurt or out, and the race waits while a question is open, with no clock on a question.

The first team to reach violet wins. Captain Hoot the owl brings a striped balloon, the team that wins floats up the rainbow, and then they slide all the way down through all seven colours. At the bottom a huge explosion of candy falls from the sky on every sheep and piggy who played, win or lose, the same for everyone. Every sheep on the winning team also gets a rainbow T-shirt for their character.

Meeting a challenge earns a certificate in a colour: rise your first colour, hop a whole row with no bounces, reach the fifth colour, bounce and still climb on, climb all seven colours, win with a team of four, and win three rides. Each certificate deeds a plot of the Rainbow Meadow, and a child can collect all seven colours over time. Teams are two, three or four sheep, picked on the menu, and never more than four.

Rainbow Hop plays in the browser with no download, no sign-up and no ads. The questions fit the child, from preschool to about fifth grade: counting, sums, letters, sounds and words. In Just play nothing is asked and a big Hop button does the hopping. Coins come from right answers and the colours the team climbs.

Questions grown-ups ask

Is Rainbow Hop free?

Yes. Rainbow Hop is free to play in the browser, with no sign-up, no download and no ads. Coins are earned in the game and only count toward the game's own extras.

Does my child play with strangers?

No. The teammates and the other two teams are friendly computer sheep. No one types a name or a message, and no one is ever hurt: a hop that goes wrong is a boing off a piggy's tummy.

What does Rainbow Hop practice?

Questions come as three big boxes at your child's level: counting, sums, letters, sounds or words, from preschool to about fifth grade. A wrong box only fades and the question stays open, and there is no clock on a question.

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For grown-ups: On the menu: Mix, Numbers, Reading or 🎮 Just play. Just play asks no questions at all.

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