We’re so excited! We finally got to use all of those colored milk jug, squeezie, Play-Doh, Gatorade, and sparkling water tops that we have been saving! We’ve been saving for ages so our stash is pretty substantial! Today, with St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, we talked all about rainbows. Immediately, we thought about all those pretty colored tops and pulled them out to see what we could make. Voila! A pretty rainbow made mostly of recycled plastic tops. We had to supplement a few colors with pom poms and of course our puffy clouds are made of cotton balls. The piece de resistance was a pile of gold coins we snagged at Dollar Tree. Miss 4 was having such a great time she didn’t even realize all the science she was learning. Don’t you just love a good STEAM project! Go ROY? Go G! Go BIV!
Recycled Rainbow
The neat thing is, when we are done looking at our pretty rainbow, when can just pile everything back into their craft containers for future projects. This has got to be one of the cleanest art/science projects we have every done!
Rainbow Push
We wanted our little leprechaun hunter to have some rainbow fun too! So we set out rainbow colored craft sticks for her to push through a Greek yogurt container we will be turning into one of our leprechaun traps. For today, it helped Miss 17 month with her fine motor skills as well as learning her colors.
Rainbow Shoots and Ladders
These rainbow shoots and ladders are going to be perfect for luring those tricky leprechauns into our traps! They were super easy and inexpensive to make. Your leprechaun hunters are going to like making some of their own.
What You Need:
*Toilet paper or paper towel tubes
*Colored paper in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple cut into strips
*Glue
*Cotton balls or white pompoms
1. Glue strips of colored paper around your tubes. Remember to glue them in order of the colors of the rainbow.
2. Glue large cotton balls or pompoms to the bottom of your tube.
3. That’s it! Easy peasy! You’ve got yourself one awesome rainbow shoot. Gold coins optional!
Rainbow Run:
Use toilet paper, paper towel and wrapping paper tubes to create rainbow shoots of different sizes (see rainbow shoots above). Attach them, using painters tape, to a wall, refrigerator, or other surface. Race large gold coins, pompoms or other objects. Have your little play with the angle of the tub to see how that effects speed.
Walking Rainbow:
This experiment is so fun and easy! It teaches all about primary and secondary colors. Get the full instructions here.
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