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Giant Rainbow Collage

March 16, 2011 by Anna Ranson

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!

A while ago we made colour balloons to go on the wall. It’s amazing to compare the progression in Cakie’s understanding between those two occasions, as this time, at 2 and a half,  she was able to name and sort all of the colours and talk about where they belonged and why.
I cut a large semi-circle from a piece of a cardboard box (can you tell yet how much I love boxes?!) Then I painted on a basic rainbow using poster paints while Cakie painted freely on another piece of cardboard next to me. We left it to dry and went to find the colour buckets from our colour hunt, and started to sort through our papers and collage materials.
She was able to talk confidently about where the things should go and why, and was disturbed that we didn’t have a pink pot, so we found a temporary stand in!

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.

 Rainbow collage for kids

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.

Giant rainbow collage

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

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Filed Under: Age, Art, Art, Art and Craft, Collage, Colours, Craft, Create, Creativity, Fine Motor Development, Learn, Math, Preschooler, Rainbows, Sorting and Matching, Toddler Tagged With: Early Maths

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Comments

  1. Melissa @ The Chocolate Muffin Tree says

    March 16, 2011 at 4:49 pm

    How wonderful this is! Love it!

  2. Aleacia says

    March 16, 2011 at 5:06 pm

    Beautiful!

  3. The Princess and the Tot says

    March 16, 2011 at 5:26 pm

    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!

  4. Rockabye Butterfly says

    March 16, 2011 at 5:28 pm

    That is SOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!! Great job and a great project!!!

  5. Förskoleburken says

    March 16, 2011 at 6:15 pm

    I love this! It’s so alive and really stands out!

  6. The Princess and the Tot says

    March 16, 2011 at 7:44 pm

    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!

  7. Anna @ The Imagination Tree says

    March 16, 2011 at 11:26 pm

    I’m very impressed “P and the T” that you got one done so quickly!! Happy sticking and looking forward to seeing your post 🙂

  8. Jude says

    March 17, 2011 at 11:23 am

    Beautiful and educational – great activity.

  9. Anonymous says

    March 17, 2011 at 1:42 pm

    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.

  10. Anna @ The Imagination Tree says

    March 17, 2011 at 2:42 pm

    “Anon” thank you very much and I’m glad she has enjoyed them! Keep using the ideas- that’s what we’re here for 🙂

  11. Anonymous says

    March 18, 2011 at 5:26 am

    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. 🙂

  12. Anna @ The Imagination Tree says

    March 18, 2011 at 1:07 pm

    Great! I know what you mean about wanting to hang it up- just not sure how yet. Hope your daughter enjoys it too! 🙂

  13. Debbie says

    March 18, 2011 at 3:59 pm

    So very cute and colorful. Love the pic of her admiring her work. Definetly going to borrow this idea. 🙂

  14. Annette @ Live, Learn, Love says

    March 18, 2011 at 4:29 pm

    This is awesome!

  15. Deborah says

    March 20, 2011 at 3:49 pm

    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!

  16. Darcey says

    March 20, 2011 at 5:58 pm

    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

  17. Sarah says

    March 21, 2011 at 1:26 am

    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!

  18. RedTedArt says

    March 24, 2011 at 9:44 am

    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

  19. Anna @ The Imagination Tree says

    March 24, 2011 at 11:47 pm

    Thanks for the lovely comments! I appreciate them a lot. Darcey, thanks for choosing this as a favourite 🙂

  20. Rachel at Sun Scholars says

    March 25, 2011 at 2:30 am

    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

  21. Angelyn says

    March 28, 2011 at 11:20 pm

    Love love LOVE this idea!
    I’m a new follower =]
    looking forward to more fantastic ideas from your blog.
    Angelyn

  22. jfb57 says

    April 2, 2011 at 9:17 am

    Fantastic & so do-able in a classroom! Thank you so much for linking with the Resource Centre! Hope to see you again next week!

  23. Becc says

    June 26, 2011 at 12:05 am

    I keep coming back to this post when my world needs a hit of colour xxx you’re an inspiration xx

  24. Anna @ The Imagination Tree says

    June 26, 2011 at 9:49 pm

    Becc, what a lovely comment! I’m so glad 🙂

  25. Bridge says

    September 2, 2011 at 3:17 am

    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 🙂

  26. Ali says

    October 27, 2011 at 3:52 am

    That is a wonderful idea…and it produced a beautiful result. Your daughter must have been so proud of her effort.

  27. Ali says

    October 27, 2011 at 3:53 am

    That is a wonderful idea…and it produced a beautiful picture. You daughter must have been very proud of her work.

  28. Anonymous says

    July 21, 2012 at 12:09 am

    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!!

  29. Sarah says

    July 29, 2012 at 4:05 pm

    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.

  30. Eilidh Macleod says

    October 8, 2012 at 9:15 pm

    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 🙂

  31. Michelle says

    February 20, 2013 at 3:21 pm

    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

  32. anthea barton says

    February 22, 2013 at 12:14 am

    oh, that is just beautiful

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