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Glittery Rainbow {St. Patrick’s Day}

March 5, 2013 by LindseyW

We’ve been in full St. Patrick’s Day mode this week. Since we’ll be in the midst of a move during the actual holiday, I thought we better do our celebrating a bit early. I picked up some great books from the library and we’ve been having fun with some coordinating activities. The first book we looked at was:

The Leprechaun Who Lost His Rainbow

This a great tale of a little girl who sacrificed her favorite little flute in order to bring joy to her Uncle. In the end, she was rewarded an even better flute by the little Leprechaun Roy G. Biv. The book teaches the benefit of helping others and does a great job reviewing the colors of the rainbow.

For our coordinating activity, we made glittery rainbows. Want to follow along?

What You Need:

Rainbow coloring page (I got mine here, but there are lots of choices online)
Crayons or paint
Glitter
Glue
Cotton balls (optional)

What You Do:

To begin, I quickly colored a page to show the kids “Rainbow Order” for the colors. If you have older kids, I would point out that the leprechaun’s name “Roy G. Biv” coordinates with the Rainbow colors. I passed out the appropriate colors and the kids got to work!

After the rainbows were all colored, we got out the glitter and glue!

To begin, I used a glue stick and “glued in” the top bow on the rainbow. Then, the I had each girl shake the appropriate color glitter over the glue.

The kids held onto the edges of the paper and shook until the glitter filled in the whole line.

Then, I put glue in the next line/bow and we continued the process. I was a little concerned that the colors would get mixed up as we glittered, but they seemed to stay where they were supposed to!

If you want a little extra fun for this activity, you could also glue cotton balls on the clouds.

Of course, my 19 month old wanted in on this action, so I just let him go wild with the gold glitter. :)

Finished!!

About the Author

Lindsey Whitney is a blogger over at Growing Kids Ministry. A blog designed to help parents, teachers, and Children’s Ministry workers who want to help the kids they love grow in their faith. You can connect with her via twitter or on facebook.

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At the End of the Rainbow

February 27, 2013 by LindseyW

There’s Something About a Rainbow!

Don’t you just love seeing a rainbow? Whether in the sky or in some artwork, there’s something about a rainbow that really brightens my day! This rainbow craft is perfect for St. Patrick’s day and perfect for even the youngest toddler hands! Let’s get started!

What You Need:

Various colors of construction (ideally, the colors of the rainbow)
White construction paper for clouds
Scissors
Glue
Paper cutter (optional, but helpful)
Ruler (for older kids)

What You Do:

My crew is pretty young (ages 1-3), so I got the supplies ready ahead of time for them. If you have older kids, you could have them use a ruler to draw lines on the construction paper and then cut out the strips themselves. I used the paper cutter to make it quick and easy!

All Ready To Go!

You’ll need one strip of each color per child, plus a white cloud. If you want to make it very St. Patrick’s day themed, you could also make a little pot of gold, but we opted to skip that part.

I made a QUICK sample craft (didn’t even glue it) just to show the kids what to do. As you can see, I didn’t worry about colors being in the right order, because obviously the kids weren’t going to worry about it either!

Now the kids got to work, gluing strips in place!

Concentrate!

Even the “baby” (18 months) loved this project! I think he did a pretty good job too. :) Not that I’m biased or anything.

Every strip must be laid with care!

Finished Rainbows!

What kind of St. Patrick’s Day fun are you planning?

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R is for Rainbows!

November 27, 2012 by LindseyW

I know, I know! I’m supposed to posting about Christmas things! But Thanksgiving is over and December hasn’t quite begun, so I thought this was the perfect time to squeeze in my Rainbow project. We had so much fun with this, I just couldn’t wait until Christmastime was over! Let’s get started!

I started with this picture (from Pinterest) as inspiration:

Check out the full post for details on making an engineering print (super fun and super cheap!) I decided to do our poster as if Chipmunk was holding the rainbow in her hands. Here’s our starting picture:

While the kids were sleeping, I painted a rainbow in her hands and hung it up on the door as a surprise.

I was so delighted at Chipmunk’s face when she saw her rainbow poster! Even the baby ran around smiling and laughing when he saw it! So fun!

After we hung this poster up as an example, we made small versions with each of the daycare. I started with a picture of each child, holding their hands out. I love using Walgreens for pictures, because you can take the pictures, upload, and pick them up 10 minutes later!