Create a giant, beautiful and vibrant rainbow collage to consolidate knowledge of colours, practise sorting and matching and have a go at working on a large scale collaboratively!
Then I squeezed lots of runny glue onto one colour band at a time and she brushed it all over with a paintbrush.
Between us we then stuck all of the scrap materials from each bucket onto the corresponding colour and I was pretty impressed that none ended up in the wrong place! (not that it would have mattered anyway.)
It took us a little while but it would have taken a LOT longer if we hadn’t made it a collaborative project! She was pretty pleased with the finished product.
I love this photo of her staring at what she has made. She said “daddy’s gonna love it!” Yes he will baby.
The finished beauty! We are going to display this for baby’s rainbow birthday next week.
A couple of close ups of the lovely, recycled materials.
Oh how I love colour. And how much do I wish I’d listened to my Mum’s advice and not been afraid to embrace it a bit more when I was younger! Still, we could always try to make up for lost time 🙂
Happy rainbow colours, just perfect for birthday celebrations.
This activity is good for:
* recognising, naming and matching colours
* sorting and matching according to one criteria
* creativity
* fine motor skills development through tearing, sorting and sticking
* working together on a collaborative project (PHSE)
Cakie: 2.6
How wonderful this is! Love it!
Beautiful!
We are doing a rainbow week right now and this is just PERFECT!! I guess I better get searching for rainbow art stuff in my stash!
That is SOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!! Great job and a great project!!!
I love this! It’s so alive and really stands out!
Got mine painted!! We’ll work on the collage part after Super Tot’s nap. I’ll send you a link to the finished product and will link back to you when I do my post over the weekend!
I’m very impressed “P and the T” that you got one done so quickly!! Happy sticking and looking forward to seeing your post 🙂
Beautiful and educational – great activity.
I absolutely love your blog. So many fantastic ideas, which I have already borrowed lots of. My daughter has thoroughly enjoyed them all! Thank you.
“Anon” thank you very much and I’m glad she has enjoyed them! Keep using the ideas- that’s what we’re here for 🙂
This is so beautiful! I would proudly hang that on my wall as a piece of art forever, never take it down! I’m going to make one with my daughter now. I know she will love it. 🙂
Great! I know what you mean about wanting to hang it up- just not sure how yet. Hope your daughter enjoys it too! 🙂
So very cute and colorful. Love the pic of her admiring her work. Definetly going to borrow this idea. 🙂
This is awesome!
This is so gorgeous! I shared it with our curriculum coordinator for us to do over the summer. We are thinking of doing one arch of the rainbow a week:) Thank you for sharing your post on my rainbow linky!
What a great idea for a birthday party decoration. I think it’s great how you made it together. I’ve linked up to your post on my weekly favorites here: http://play2grow.blogspot.com/2011/03/weekly-favorites-for-march-20-2011.html
Wow! It looks as though you both had such a great time making that rainbow! And your photos are gorgeous. My daughter is very into rainbows, and actually very into colours generally (they were her first words!). I reckon she’d love it if we made a giant one together. Thanks for sharing!
Rainbows are SUCH a joy and I love all your rainbow craft! A really happy session!
Thank you for linking up to Kids Get Crafty! 🙂
Maggy
Thanks for the lovely comments! I appreciate them a lot. Darcey, thanks for choosing this as a favourite 🙂
That is beautiful!!! What a fabulous idea for the little ones!!!
Thanks so much for sharing this at For the Kids Friday at Sun Scholars! I’ll be posting the next link party tonight, so be sure to stop by. I can’t wait to see what you have to share this week!
🙂 rachel @ SunScholars.blogspot.com
Love love LOVE this idea!
I’m a new follower =]
looking forward to more fantastic ideas from your blog.
Angelyn
Fantastic & so do-able in a classroom! Thank you so much for linking with the Resource Centre! Hope to see you again next week!
I keep coming back to this post when my world needs a hit of colour xxx you’re an inspiration xx
Becc, what a lovely comment! I’m so glad 🙂
This is FABULOUS! My kiddiwinkles will LOVE it! I just told them this morning we should make a BIG rainbow and this activity will be perfect. Thanks 🙂
That is a wonderful idea…and it produced a beautiful result. Your daughter must have been so proud of her effort.
That is a wonderful idea…and it produced a beautiful picture. You daughter must have been very proud of her work.
As a teacher of 33 years, I have never seen auch a beautiful project outcome for a rainbow idea. This is sooooo tactile and so pretty when done. Everyone is successful with this project!!
I love this one, We are adapting it for an Olympic theme for my boys. I have cut out 5 rings from cardboard and painted them. Tomorrow (hopefully) we will start with the collage part. thanks for the inspiration.
http://giraffescancraft.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/rainbow-collage.html Here is our attempt at your rainbow. I only took the finished picture this evening and we did it months ago so some have fallen off 🙁 But we loved it – thanks 🙂
oh please come share in My St Patrick’s Day Crafts & Activities Round-up – the linky is open until the 28th. http://mollymoo.ie/2013/02/st-patricks-day-kids-craft-roundup/
Many thanks
Michelle ! MollyMoo
oh, that is just beautiful