Bring Luck and Color Into Your Home with This Fun Rainbow Craft
Bring Luck and Color Into Your Home with This Fun Rainbow Craft
The gray days of winter seem to drag on forever, but soon spring will be here with blooming flowers, green grass, and bright sunny skies. As we look forward to the colorful signs of spring, kids can create their own burst of color with this easy and fun Lucky Rainbow Craft. This Saint Patrick’s Day craft is perfect for preschoolers and early elementary students. Not only is it fun and engaging for little hands and minds, but it also helps develop key skills. Before we begin, please take a moment to pin this post for later.
Benefits of Creating the Lucky Rainbow Craft
Working on arts and crafts provides many developmental benefits for young children. As they work through the steps of this rainbow craft project, kids will be:
Developing Fine Motor Skills Carefully ripping the tissue paper and precisely gluing the scraps onto the rainbow outline helps promote fine motor development. Using child-safe scissors to cut shapes also aids in refining hand-eye coordination and dexterity.
Building Concentration Following step-by-step instructions to complete the different elements of the craft encourages focused attention and concentration. As they carefully glue the tissue paper scraps into place, they must concentrate on keeping the colors within the lines.
Enhancing Creativity There’s no single right or wrong way to create the lucky rainbow! Kids can be creative in ripping, cutting, or crumpling the tissue paper pieces. Please encourage them to layer colors or textures that appeal to their artistic side.
Having Fun! Above all, arts and crafts should be fun! The hands-on process of creating something colorful and joyful sparks imagination and self-confidence. Displaying their rainbow masterpiece fosters pride in their ability to follow directions and complete a project from start to finish.
What you will need to make the Lucky Rainbow Craft:
You most likely already have all the supplies you need in your home. If you don’t, a quick run to your local drugstore or office supply store should be able to supply you with all you need. However, I have included affiliate links to Amazon, where you can purchase everything you need.
Instructions fo the Lucky Rainbow Craft
- First, draw a rainbow onto a piece of cardstock and make the arches thick.
- Next, rip, cut, and crumple up your tissue paper squares color by color and glue each color onto the arches.
- While the arches are drying, sketch a pot on your brown construction paper.
- Then, cut out the pot and cut out small yellow circles to put as coins coming out of the pot.
- Then, glue the pot to the bottom of the rainbow.
Lucky Rainbow Craft step by step video tutorial
Extending the learning with this Lucky Rainbow Craft
Create a rainbow scavenger hunt! Hide rainbow-colored objects around a room and let kids go on a “rainbow hunt” to find something red, orange, yellow, etc. They’ll match colors while exploring their environment. For more rainbow learning fun, incorporate counting, patterns, and sorting games using colors of the rainbow. Let their creativity shine bright!
The colorful lucky rainbow craft helps drive away the winter blahs while keeping little hands and minds creatively engaged. As kids carefully follow directions to rip, glue, cut and create their rainbow project, they’ll be gaining so many developmental benefits getting ready for kindergarten and beyond. Display their rainbow art creation proudly!
