thankful for a couple of sunny days, we found a rainbow in a jar.
actually, not in the jar (as some tried to find), but by sunlight shining through the water in the jar.
then we took rainbow crayons, drew what we saw along with the capital R shape.
who would have guessed the next days were bitter cold?
we cut plastic binder dividers into strips, then snipped more, then pressed them on a piece of laminate, then added another piece of laminate on top.
when the pieces of colored plastic would overlap, we would see color blending. beautiful.
actually, i thought of these as wind-catchers, but the preschoolers exclaimed things like, “oh yeah! a kite!”…so they became kites.
the first step was cutting a hole out of the center. any kind of hole. i learned quickly (and should have known!) to poke the scissor through first (thankfully we avoided hurt children).
then was the tricky work of choosing streamers and gluing them on in rainbow order. oh, tricky.
we had beautiful weather these days…great for kite flying.
a big piece of cardboard.
remaining paint from our rainbow stripes.
found objects.
3+ bottles of glue.
ahhhhhh. color wheel.
oh joy was mine.
we worked left to right following a sample chart of rainbow order to paint stripes.
this was a hard concept to grasp at first.
in order for the paint to dry by the end of the morning, we made prints with another piece of paper.
this was pretty exciting!
then we added a black R….because R is for Rainbow…
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