Educational Kids Crafts: St. Patrick's Day and Rainbows

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:

A cheerful girl with an umbrella and a small leprechaun with a red beard and green hat stand on grass under a rainbow. A black dog is nearby. The book cover reads The Leprechaun Who Lost His Rainbow by Sean Callahan.

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?

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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.

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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!!

More Saint Paddy’s Day for Kids:

A woman with shoulder-length brown hair smiles at the camera, wearing a black top and beaded necklace. She stands indoors, surrounded by light-colored walls, preparing a glittery gift to make and give.

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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.