Rainbows

I say it every year, but rainbows are my favorite thing to explore with young kids. They are great for reviewing colors, sorting, ordering, science concepts, and all the colors together are just so happy. Here are a few of the rainbow activities we tried this year.

Rainbow Order

This year I used Kwik Stix to teach about the order of rainbow colors. Ordering is a math skill that goes hand in hand with counting, so it's fun to integrate it into the colors of the rainbow as well. We do a group art activity to draw a rainbow in color order, and Kwik Stix were the perfect art tool to make taking turns with each color go by smoothly. 

 We added cotton balls to the top so that we could add the next process to this project.

On another day we let it "rain" on our rainbows with some drip painting. 

Collaborative Rainbow

We also explored color mixing with this fun and messy :) collaborative art project, inspired by the book Beautiful Hands. 

We made on row of the rainbow at a time using only primary colors, so for the secondary colors we did a little hands-on color mixing.