Happy St. Patrick's Day: Round Rainbow

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  Celebrate with this easy-to-make rainbow!

Supplies:
Construction paper (in rainbow colors)

Compass or circle templates

Pencil

Scissors

Glue

1)  Trace circles onto construction paper starting with red.  Make red your largest circle with the colors after smaller and smaller circles (I used a compass).

2)  Cut out the circles.  Paste the orange circle in the middle of the red circle, the yellow circle in the middle of the orange circle, and so on.

3)  Draw a line across the middle of the circles.  Cut. 

Rainbow Name Trace

This little activity offers tons of name-writing practice!

Supplies:
Highlighter
Crayons, markers, or colored-pencils
Paper

1.  Write your child's name with a yellow highlighter.  Trace the name with rainbow colors!  Decorate as desired.

Noah's Ark

Spring's rain and thunderstorms have arrived!  Our theme this week is rain, so I thought we would start with a story about a whole lot of rain!

Noah's Ark by Peter Spier is a wordless book illustrating the Biblical story of Noah.  I read our children's Bible first and then shared this version with the girls. 

When reading the story of Noah's ark with my preschoolers, I try to focus their attention on God's protection of Noah and His promise to us.  We made a rainbow to remind us of that covenant.

1)  Cut a piece of black 8.5" by 11" paper in half.  Draw four curved lines for the rainbow in pencil.

2)  Have your child stick colored dots on the lines to make a rainbow.

Finally, we made Banana Arks for a snack.

1)  Peel a banana and place on a plate or in a bowl.  Spread with peanut butter.

2)  Find matching animals to put on the ark!

Another easy snack idea is to make Pita Pocket Arks.

1)  Cut a pita pocket in half.  Have your child spread peanut butter and jelly inside the pita pocket.

2)  Match pairs of animal crackers.  Put them in the ark!

Rainbow Cupcakes

I found these rainbow cupcakes for our rainbow-themed tea party.  Instructions for making them are here.

Circle Rainbow

Here's a simple way to make a rainbow.

1)  Trace circles onto construction paper starting with red.  Make red your biggest circle with the colors after smaller and smaller circles (I used a compass).

2)  Cut out the circles.  Using a gluestick or school glue, paste the orange circle in the middle of the red circle, the yellow circle in the middle of the orange circle, and so on.

3)  Draw a line across the middle of the circles.  Cut.

The girls had a rainbow-themed tea party, so we used our rainbows for crafts.  We put a magnet on one half, and used the other rainbow to decorate a tambourine!