Our first week home, we followed people across the nation and across the world in hanging rainbows in our window. We loved how they looked and really enjoyed spotting rainbows in other people’s windows when we were out or a walk. Rainbows are a symbol of hope, make us happy when we look at them and the message that the Italians added with the rainbows in their windows “Andrà tutto bene” is what I keep telling my kids: everything will be alright.

We have continued making rainbows since that first week. Making rainbow crafts and sharing them here on the blog and on Instagram is fun for me and the kids. Today I’m sharing 3 more easy rainbow crafts to try at home. One even starts as a science experiment so you can check off both science and art for your distance learning day.

In addition to making rainbows, my girls have wanted to wear rainbows more than ever. The cute rainbow dresses in this post are both from Pink Chicken, our favorite! They are beautiful dresses but also super comfortable for days at home and playing in the yard. Pink Chicken has these rainbow dresses and some adorable rainbow swimsuits too.

Rainbow Crafts for Kids

Rainbow Paper Plate Craft

Supplies:

Paper plate
Rainbow colored markers
Cotton balls
Glue
Scissors

Directions: Start by cutting a paper plate in half. Then use half a paper plate to make your rainbow. Color the plate with the markers. Last glue on some cotton ball clouds.

Magic Rainbow Activity

Supplies:

Paper towels
Black Sharpie
Rainbow colored washable markers
Spray bottle with water

Directions: First, draw a rainbow on the paper towel with the markers. Next trace over the rainbow with the black sharpie. Next spray the paper towel with water and watch the rainbow appear. The colors will run so put something under the paper towel (paper plate, old towel, etc). Or just do the project outside!

You’ve done science: watching colors blend, water travel and how the permanent marker stays while the washable markers do not. Now let the rainbow dry and you have a lovely piece of art to hang!

If you want another rainbow science experiment, click here for our “Rainbow Eruption” experiment”.

Giant Rainbows

Supplies:

Rainbow colored paints
Large roll of paper: we used a roll of brown craft paper but the back of a roll of wrapping paper would work too

Directions: Roll out the paper as long as you’d like and get to work painting a rainbow. We found it easiest to draw out the rainbow with pencil first. As soon as we have no rain in the forecast, we plan to hang this on the front of our house.