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I get so excited this time of the year when it's close to St. Patrick's Day and you can start to smell Spring in the air. I am ever so anxious for daily walks to the park and bike rides. All these colorful rainbow crafts we've done this week have made me even more ready for Spring to arrive.

We finished off our rainbow week making tissue paper rainbows. They are so simple to make and so colorful. We ended up using the same rainbow template from our Rainbow Windsock Craft which you can find HERE.

Simply cut up tissue paper squares in red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple in separate containers.


Squeeze school glue to cover the section where the red goes in the rainbow and then crumble up the red tissue paper squares and put them all over the glue. Continue doing each section of the rainbow until it is complete.

Here is Luke's rainbow. Like I said, so simple but super cute! I don't know what it is about getting to crumble tissue paper, but my kids love it! I kinda like it too.  :)


We paired it with the book A Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman. It is about a young boy who imagines what it would be like to have his own rainbow to play with. Very cute story. It made me wish I had a rainbow to play with too.  :)


An extension to this craft for K-2nd Grade could be to add clouds to the ends of the rainbow and have a writing prompt in them that they can complete like "If I had a rainbow of my own I would...."

If you missed any of our other Rainbow Crafts you can check them out here:

• Double-sided Rainbow Windsock
• St. Patrick's Day Art

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Sometimes when I get an idea for a craft in my head, I try it out myself first to see if I need to make any tweaks or changes. Tonight I made this St. Patrick's Day Art and am so pleased with how it turned out. My boys saw it sitting on the counter after it was completed and said how cool it was so I can't wait to have them make it later this week. (I'll post pictures of their completed projects at the end of this post once they are finished.)

I started by  using a fork to paint grass onto the bottom of a blue piece of cardstock paper. While it was drying I cut a black pot out of black cardstock paper and glued it on the grass. I painted the gold in the pot using a pencil eraser dabbed into yellow paint, then sprinkled gold glitter onto it while it was drying.

I used acrylic paints to paint a rainbow coming out of the pot and used a circular sponge brush to dab on white clouds. After the grass was dried I decided it would be fun to make the grass a clover field so I used glitter foam clover stickers that I had on hand and put them in the grass.

It has definitely got me in the St. Patrick's Day spirit!  :)  If you are interested in what books we are reading this week to go along with our Rainbow/St. Patrick's Day theme you can read about them at the end of THIS post.
 
Happy Crafting!

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