What Makes a Rainbow? {Ribbon Craft}

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A Story + Art = A Great stART!

This week we read the book What Makes a Rainbow? by Betty Ann Schwartz and made this rainbow art for our stART project. We LOVE this book and I thought the ribbon rainbow craft was perfect for it! Each bright, vivid page highlights a different color of the rainbow. Our favorite part is that it is a “magic ribbon book.” As you turn each page another color of the ribbon rainbow magically appears until a complete ribbon rainbow appears. This book is so stinkin’ cute! Check out a few photos of the book below:

There is even a rainbow surprise at the end of the book. But, you’ll have to get your own copy to check it out!

Ribbon Rainbow Instructions:

So, to make our rainbow (in honor of the cute ribbon rainbow in the book), we used ribbon. You can see our supplies below.

I tend to save all the ribbon that I ever get. If a gift or a card has ribbon on it, I save it. You never know when it will make the perfect accent on a scrapbook page! Anyhow, I raided my ribbon stash and cut lots of small pieces of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple ribbon (about 1 inch long). I drew six rainbow lines on the paper for the kids to use as a guide. Then, they got to work gluing the appropriate color ribbon onto the rainbow lines. Check out their final projects below.

I think they turned out great! In fact, I think I am going to frame them and display them in on the wall!!!

More fun rainbow activities:

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