rainbows

Making rainbow fish collages in preschool

April 30, 2011

The kindergarten children from this class have been reading the book “The Rainbow Fish” by Marcus Pfister and today they made their very own rainbow fish collages… The teacher set out a basket of tissue paper squares and some aluminum foil to add a little bit of shimmer… Each child took their own approach towards [...]

A rainbow of my very own in preschool

March 18, 2011

I love the book, “A Rainbow of My Own” by Don Freeman and today I thought of this book as I observed the children make tissue paper rainbows. To make their rainbows, the children started by brushing liquid starch on a sheet of white drawing paper… I have to say that even though I want [...]

More colorful rainbow fun in preschool

March 17, 2011

Today the prekindergarten class created these colorful rainbows… They began by drawing lines with markers… The canvas they used was two sheets of paper towels cut into the shape of a rainbow… The teacher put a sheet of wax paper under each paper towel rainbow shape so the rainbows could easily be picked up and [...]

Rainbow play and getting out of the way in preschool plus a rainbow linky!

March 16, 2011

I have a tendency to over-think or worry about what I plan for the children to do! Last week I decided that we should try adding rainbow bottles to our activity boxes… To make the colorful rainbow bottles, we simply filled the bottles about 3/4 of the way with water, added about 1/2 cup of [...]

Update on rainbow craft stick puzzles for preschoolers

March 15, 2011

I have a quick update to our rainbow craft stick puzzles. A comment was left by Scott of Brick by Brick to add a “swipe of marker” to the back of each group of craft sticks to help the children separate the groups a little more easily. I used a dot dabber and put blue, [...]

Craft stick rainbow puzzles in preschool

March 14, 2011

I first saw this idea on Almost Unschoolers and then shared it with the teachers… We are exploring rainbows and in one of our activity boxes the children have found these rainbow craft stick puzzles. At first all the craft sticks were all mixed up into one pile and because there were three sets of [...]

We made three kinds of construction paper rainbows in preschool

August 29, 2010

The children were exploring rainbows in their classroom and each class created a different kind of rainbow. I noticed that everyone started with a sheet of paper with rainbow lines. These children selected from a variety of construction paper colors and then tore their paper into little pieces. Then they covered each line to create [...]

Simple flowers, caterpillars, and rainbows in preschool

March 14, 2010

I keep this product in my kitchen cabinet all the time and love it because of its special kind of adhesive ability to wrap up foods with an easy seal. I buy Glad Press’n Seal wrap from the local grocery store or Walmart. Pull out a length of the sealing wrap and set it out [...]