rainbow Archives - Projects for Preschoolers

Here’s a happy rainbow coloring page you can print out and use for a variety of activities. Color it, cut it, glue it or add other fun embellishments to it. Your preschooler can use this page for a number of fun activities such gluing colored noodles or marshmallows instead of coloring in the bands the rainbow.

Download two different rainbow coloring pages:

Rainbow Coloring Page

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Rainbow 2

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Have fun using glitter, paint, chalk markers or crayons to color your rainbow page. For extra fun, glue some cotton balls over the cloud. For St. Patrick’s day activities you could make a pot of gold cut out and glue it to the end of the rainbow too.

Traditional rainbow colors include:

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo (a dark-ish blue) and Voilet

Counting and color with mosaic gems and a rainbow

March 13, 2012 by Art Girl Leave a Comment

We like to use mosaic gems for a variety of different activities. Sorting is one of our favorites because the gems are fun to handle, pretty to look at and there’s a wonderful assortment of colors to choose from. We decided to work on sorting a rainbow of colors for this activity and then turn our sorted colors into a pretty rainbow. You could make the rainbow a craft project, turning it into a pretty decor piece for your home.

Materials you need for the counting, coloring rainbow activity:

Mosaic gems in a rainbow of color
Egg carton for sorting
Paper with a rainbow drawn on it (or download our free rainbow coloring page)

Steps for this rainbow gem activity:

Sort the gems by color into the egg carton
place the gems by color on the different areas of the rainbow

sorting mosaic gems by color in an egg carton

We chose to keep our mosaic gems for another day so we didn’t glue anything in place. We also didn’t have a purple gems, so we used light and dark blue. If you don’t have mosaic gems, you could do this same activity with color paper. You can make a variety of fun rainbow games and activities using these same rainbow colors mosaic gems. I’d love to hear what you come up with!

Rainbow paper chain

March 5, 2012 by Art Girl Leave a Comment

Make a rainbow paper chain with your preschooler and fill the house with extra color! You can use this preschool craft to take about color, practice patterns and work on fine motor skills. We wanted to make a sort of rainbow. A paper chain grows large very quickly, so this craft is perfect for decorating a space with fun color.

Materials you need to make a rainbow paper chain:

Colored paper (red, orange, yellow, blue, green and/or purple)
Scissors
Glue, tape or stapler

How to make a rainbow paper chain:

Cut strips of paper approximately 1-2″ wide along the short side of the paper.
Wrap 1 strip of paper and attach to itself making a circle.
Pull another strip of paper through the center of the circle and attach to itself to make the chain.
Repeat until you’ve reached the desired length.

Tips: We made a pattern with the colors using red, orange, yellow, green and blue paper (we didn’t have purple). We used glue dots instead of standard glue because there is no drying time. You could use tape or a stapler too. If you don’t have colored paper, you could use white paper you color or paint before using. Decorate the paper with gems or color designs for extra decorating.

After we made our rainbow paper chain, my preschooler ran through the house pulling it behind her telling everyone she had just made a rainbow snake! You can use these paper chains to play with, decorate or just for the fun of making something neat with paper.