DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Rainbow Paper Craft

This is a great craft for reinforcing a lesson on circles or on the fraction "half".  A big thanks to one of our viewers for contributing this idea!

Materials:

• Construction paper:  red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple (or pink if there is no purple in your construction paper pack)
• scissors,
• Optional:  String and thin cardboard
• Pencil

Instructions:

• Draw a 9" circle on the red paper, 8" circle on the orange, 7" circle on the yellow and so on.
• To measure your circles, you can make a template for the kids to trace around on thin cardboard.  
  • Just take a string and make it 1/2 the length of the circle.
  • Anchor it in the middle of the thin cardboard and tie a pencil on the other end.
  • Stretch it taught and draw all the way around.
  • Cut out the template and let the kids use it to trace with.
• Cut out the circles.
• Glue them one on top of the other from biggest to smallest.
• Fold or cut in half to make a rainbow.

ADDITIONAL OPTION - MOBILE:

Cut out two identical cloud shapes as large as possible from white paper (you can use the template we've provided).  Staple or lace all the way around the outside, leaving a small space at the top.  Stuff the cloud with crumpled newspaper or cotton balls and staple the rest of the way.

Punch a hole in the center, top of the cloud and tie a string.  This will be used to hang from the ceiling.

Punch a hole in the center bottom of the cloud (if using one rainbow) or at various places along the bottom of the cloud if using more than one rainbow.

Punch a hole in the center top of the rainbow and use a string to hang it on the cloud.

Template:

• Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
• Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

Cloud Template

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