Pom Pom Painted Rainbow Craft for Kids - Fantastic Fun & Learning

Rainbows always bring a smile to my face, and my kids love making them. Spring is the perfect time to make some rainbow art. This pom pom painted rainbow craft for kids can be used as a project for St. Patrick’s Day or just a fun spring craft idea. My daughter was inspired to give it a try after we finished our St. Patrick’s Day pot of gold project recently.

Pom Pom Painted Paper Plate Rainbow Craft for Kids-Fun spring art activity for kids #rainbow #kidscrafts #preschool #kindergarten

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MATERIALS FOR THE RAINBOW POT OF GOLD ST. PATRICK’S DAY CRAFT

Clothespins-Thank you CraftProjectIdeas.com for keeping us stocked up on them! We put them to good use regularly.
A rainbow of pom poms-You can often find bags of these at Dollar Tree
Paint
Paper Plate
White Tissue Paper
White Cardstock
Scissors
Glue

We always love to read a few good books to go along with our activities too. Here are some of our favorite books about rainbows.

Making DIY Pom Pom Paint Brushes

For added fine motor practice have little ones help you make the “paintbrushes” for this project by pinching a clothespin onto each pom poms.

Rainbow Paint Set-Painting with Pom Poms

Then pour the paint in a rainbow of colors into small containers. We like repurposing old egg cartons for this!

SEE THE STEPS

FULL DIRECTIONS

We made our rainbows in a bit of a different way than usual for this rainbow craft. Instead of painting in an arc, we started with a small purple dot at that the center of our paper plate.

Start your rainbow art with one purple dot

Then we worked backward through the rainbow, adding a circle around the original purple dot.

Paper Plate Rainbow Craft for Kids #rainbow #artproject #kidcrafts

My daughter loved seeing the rainbow emerge. (Note: Kids of different ages will approach this task differently. Let them go with their own instincts. Their “rainbow” doesn’t have to look like a traditional rainbow if they don’t want it too. That’s part of the fun!”

Crumpling paper for Rainbow Art Project

While the paint dries, take a few minutes to exercise those fine motor muscles again by crumpling small white squares of tissue paper for the cloud. (You can also use cotton balls if you prefer.)

Cutting Rainbow Craft

After the paper plate is dry fold it in half and cut up the center to form two rainbows.

Cutting Cloud for Rainbow Craft

Grab some white card stock. We used one sheet cut in half vertically. Let kids use scissors to cut out a cloud shape to go with their rainbow…here again, anything goes! Clouds are all shapes and sizes.

square-Paper Plate Rainbow Art Project

Next kids can glue the cloud to the back of the rainbow. Then have kids add dots of glue to the front of the cloud and add the tissue paper cloud bits.

You can save the other half of the rainbow for another project, make two rainbow crafts, or attach the second rainbow to the back to make the rainbow craft double-sided.

Spring Craft for Kids-Paper Plate Rainbow

What you do with them is up to you! You might…

add them to a spring bulletin board
attach a rainbow themed writing activity to them
hang them from the ceiling

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