Rainbow crafts
March 15th, 2010
Toddler friendly rainbow themed activities to use for weather projects or as St Patrick’s day activities
Rainbow streamers
You will need:
- A paper plate per child
- paper strips (party crepe ribbon works well) or wide ribbons in rainbow colours
- staples or glue (staples work best)
What to do:
- Cut out the centre of the plate using a craft knife or scissor making a large ring.
- Tie the ribbons to one end of the plate by looping them through the ring.
- Staple the ribbons to make sure they are secure.
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Children can hold the ring shapes (on the end where there is no ribbon atached) and dance or run with the streamers flying behind them.
* painting the paper plates gold or using gold plates makes them a little more special
Handprint rainbow
You will need:
- Paint in the rainbow colours: red, orange, yellow, blue, green, indigo and violet.
- white paper
- glue
- a large sheet of card or paper to stick the completed rainbow onto.
What to do:
- Paint your child’s hand with a colour and have them print their hand onto some white paper. Allow this to dry and cut out each hand shape.
- Repeat this for all the colours
- Once all colours are done and cut out, create an arch shape on the large backing sheet by sticking the hands on in rows.
*For fun, you could cut a large golden pot shape and attach it to the end of the rainbow.
* this also looks great behind a large Noah’s ark
Pot o’ gold
You will need:
- Gold card or foil cut into circles (for coins)
- A large piece of black paper (or painted black) cut into a pot shape
- glue
- gold glitter
What to do:
- Stick the large pot shape onto a large piece of paper
- glue the coins at the top of the pot and have some spilling out over the edge and onto the ground next to the pot.
- Dab some glue onto the gold coins and around the pot.
- Sprinkle on the glitter for some sparkle.
* these look fabulous attached to the end of a painted/ paper tearing rainbow.
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