🌈 Paper Plate Rainbow Craft for Preschoolers

Celebrate the arrival of spring with a pretty Paper Plate Rainbow project! This easy rainbow craft for preschoolers uses a fun pom pom painitng technique to work on color recognition, fine motor skills, and more whiel creating a beautiful rainbow art and craft! Use this rainbow craft preschool, toddler, pre-k, kindergarten, and first graders as a spring craft for preschoolers or a st patricks day craft. Either way, add this to your rainbow craft ideas for a really pretty project your kids can do themselves!

Rainbow paper plate craft

I get so excited with the arriavel of springtime in March, April, and May. I love the warming weather and how nature starts waking up! April showers not only bring flowers and lvoely green grass, they bring beautiful rainbows that delight children as well as adults! Have fun with your next rainbow theme or spring theme by adding this rainbow art project to your list! This paper plate rainbow is super easy to make and kids will love that they can make it pretty much on their own! Toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and grade 1 students will proudly display their rainbow craft preschool! Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will love making this pretty rainbow craft together. Use this at home, in the classroom, daycare, and more!

Rainbow crafts

To make this simple rainbow out of a paper plate, all you need are a few simple materials you probabaly already have on hand:

white paper plate
washale markers (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple)
~24 cotton balls (for both paint brushes and clouds)
6 clothespins
washable liquid paint (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple)
egg carton or other conatiner or plate to hold paint
glue
scissors

Rainbow art project for kindergarten

Start by carefully cutting the plate in half with scissors.

Paper plate rainbow

Then, as a visual for where to paint – use markers to draw arch lines of rainbow colors even placed on the half circle plate with red the outer most, then orange, yellow, green, blue,and purple as the tiny small inner half circle. Although this part is technically optional, it really helps make sure the colors in the rainbow are evenly spaced and there is room for all of them.

Paper plate rainbow craft

Now pour paint into seperate sections of an empty egg cartoon, plate, or other paint holder. You will need red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple – all the colors of the rainbow.

Next make a clever paintbrush for a unique rainbow painting project! Grab a clothespin and push on the clothespin so it latches onto a piece of cotton. This is your fun paint brush. Repeat so you have a clothespin paint brush for each color.

Rainbow craft ideas

Ready to paint? On a surface you’e covered with newspaper, outside, or that is okay if it gets a little paint, place your rainbow plate, paints, and clothespin brushes. Now dip the cotton ball in paint (starting with the outermost layer) and paint the ring of the rainbow that corresponds to that color.

Rainbow craft

When you finish that color, continue with the next cotton ball in another color. Continue until you’ve painted each of the 6 color spaces. Try to cover all the white spaces so all you see are bright, bold colors.

Rainbow craft preschool

Once your project has dried completely. Use liquid school glue to attach cotton balls along the straight bottom edge with glue so the rainbow looks like it is coming out of the clouds.

Rainbow crafts for kids

You can hang your rainbow craft for children on the fridge or a window and let it brighten up any space for spring. Doesn’t it look so pretty with the light shinning through the paint – it makes it almost glow.

Rainbow art and craft

Isn’t that such a fun, pretty rainbow craft project! Kids will love that they can make it with minimul adult help!

Free St Patrick’s Day Printables

Looking for more fun, free saint patricks day printable ideas and activities for March? You will love these free resources for toddler, preschool, and kindergarten age students.:

Hands-ton St Patrick’s Day Counting Activity with free printable
St patrick’s day for preschoolers Cute activity pages
Work on pre-writing skills with these cute, Free St Patrick’s Day Printables Tracing Strips
Color by Letter St Patricks Day Worksheets
Leprechaun Hat Letter Tracing St Patrick’s Day Printables
Rainbow Alphabet Matching St Patrick’s Day Activities
Use Fruit Loop cereal to make a rainbow with these St Patrick’s day Printables
Count and Trace with this fun and free St patrick’s day preschool activities
St Patrick’s Day Color by Number Worksheets to work on number recognition while revealing cute hidden mystery pictures
Find the Letter St Patricks Day Worksheets
Count to 20 Puzzles for March
Counting to 20 Puzzles are a fun St Patrick’s Day Preschool Activities
I Spy St Patricks Day Printables
St Patricks Coloring Pages
Printable St Patrick’s Day Scavenger Hunt
St. Patrick’s Day Printables Write The Room
Clover Letter Find St Patrick’s Day Worksheets
Clover Pattern Strips – FREE St Patrick’s Day Printables for Preschool

St patrick’s day printables

For elementary age students, check out these fun, hands-on printable activities for St Patricks Day.

St Patricks Day for Kindergarten counting with ten frames
Pot of Gold St Patrick Day Activities – working on sorting beginning letter sounds coins by the correct pot of gold letter
St Patricks Day Math Craft
St Patrick’s Day Color by Number Hundreds Chart
Addition St Patrick’s Day Worksheets – add and dab the lucky clover with a cute Leprechaun
Learn about Ireland for Kids with these free printable books or these Ireland Coloring Pages to read, color, and learn!
Work on Addition within 20 with this Craft kids will make from St Patricks Day Math Worksheets
Free st patrick day printables Addition BINGO makes practicing math FUN – print in color or black and white!
Pot of Gold Addition Game
Pot of Gold Math St Patricks Day Activity
Rainbow Read, Rhyme and Dab St Patricks Day Activity
Work on early literacy skills with this Rhyming Rainbows St Patricks Day for Kindergarten
March Writing Prompts Calendar
Work on reading comprehension with these St Patricks Day Worksheets