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What Makes a Rainbow? {Ribbon Craft}

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What Makes a Rainbow? Ribbon Art Craft

A Story + Art = A Great stART!

What Makes a Rainbow?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:
What Makes a Rainbow? by Betty Ann Schwartz
What Makes a Rainbow? by Betty Ann Schwartz
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! Winking smile

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.

Rainbow Ribbon Craft

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.

What Makes a Rainbow? Ribbon Craft

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

What Makes a Rainbow {Ribbon Craft}

More fun rainbow activities:

  • Button Rainbows
  • Rainbow Sun Catchers
  • Rainbow Pancakes
  • Measuring a Rainbow
  • Rainbow Eraser Dot Painting

iHomeschool Network: A Book and a Big IdeaLooking for more picture book fun? Be sure to visit the iHomeschool Network for A Book and a Big Idea, a blog hop where iHn bloggers share some of their favorite picture books and coordinating enrichment activities!

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  1. Marlene

    July 9, 2013 at 6:26 pm

    Awww this is adorable! What Makes a Rainbow is one of our favorites!

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    • Mama Jenn

      July 12, 2013 at 5:02 am

      Thanks! We love this book too! …so colorful and fun!!

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  2. piggytoespress

    February 4, 2011 at 2:20 pm

    As the publisher of What Makes A Rainbow, we love this idea! Can we feature it on our blog? Please email me at [email protected] if you are interested. We can certainly link back to your post from ours.

    Thanks!

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  3. Michelle

    September 25, 2009 at 10:33 pm

    I am bookmarking this one for later…I love it! Thank you for linking up :0)

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  4. Raising a Happy Child

    September 25, 2009 at 4:33 am

    I’ve never heard of this book before, but now I am putting it on my list. Those rainbows turned out so pretty – I doubt I would find so many colors though 🙂

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  5. whisperingwhispers

    September 25, 2009 at 1:19 am

    Love the rainbows, they turned out great! This book is definately going on my wish list for when we get to our “r” unit!

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  6. Susana

    September 24, 2009 at 7:15 pm

    Their rainbows are so pretty.

    We love this book too!

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  7. April

    September 24, 2009 at 5:15 pm

    I am seriously putting this idea away for when my daughter is older. I also save any and all ribbon for scrapbooking (my husband is starting to fear that I will turn into a hoarder). Now I can incorporate it into an art project with my little one. I really like the idea of using the ice tray to store the ribbons, that way the pieces don’t get thrown all over the floor!

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  8. April

    September 24, 2009 at 5:15 pm

    I am seriously putting this idea away for when my daughter is older. I also save any and all ribbon for scrapbooking (my husband is starting to fear that I will turn into a hoarder). Now I can incorporate it into an art project with my little one. I really like the idea of using the ice tray to store the ribbons, that way the pieces don’t get thrown all over the floor!

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  9. Ticia

    September 24, 2009 at 1:35 pm

    And here I thought it was tissue paper. Super cute.
    My kids love that book, my Mother-in-Law has it, and we read it every time we go to their house.

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  10. Rusheika

    September 24, 2009 at 12:28 pm

    great rainbows! I’ll have to remember this one when we are on the letter R… and I’ll have to beef up my ribbon stash!!!

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  11. Nicole {tired, need sleep}

    September 24, 2009 at 8:03 am

    They turned out so good – I love the idea of this craft! I have a lot of ribbon too, but I’m not sure I have it in every color of the rainbow. 🙂 We also have that book!

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