RAINBOW ACTIVITIES!

Colored Ice Cubes
Ahead of time you will need to freeze blocks of ice in several colors by adding food coloring. Place all colors in sensory table. The children love to see what happens as the ice begins to melt the colors together! Freeze colored water in containers with different shapes and sizes. Use rock salt to "glue" the shapes together. As the structure melts, the colors mix to form new ones which is very pretty.
~Submitted by Cheryl's Sweethearts ChildCare

Rainbow Activities
Mix one box (Knox) gelatin (32pkgs) and 18 cups of water. Pour it into large container(s). It can be put in a large cooking pot, large plastic bowl or a bundt pan. It does not need to be refrigerated for the gelatin to solidify. It will do it at room temperature over night. When it is firm, set the container in a little warm water to get the gelatin out. Give the kids food coloring mixed with water and eye droppers or pipettes. Push the pipettes down into the gelatin to release the color. The gelatin is nice and clear and they can see the color injected into it. The kids REALLY love this activity. This is a good activity to do in the sensory table or in a large basin.
~Submitted by Cheryl's Sweethearts ChildCare

Rainbow Game
Cut a half circle out of each of the following colors of construction paper: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Make each half circle slightly smaller than the one before it. Set out the colorful half-circles and let your children take turns arranging them from large to small, one on top of the other, to make a rainbow!
~Submitted by Cheryl's Sweethearts ChildCare

Cooperation Game
Let your children work together to create this rainbow on the floor. Ask your children to look around the room, collect all the red objects in a pile. Repeat with the remaining 5 rainbow colors. Then let your children arrange the objects on the floor in a rainbow shape. First have them put all the red objects in a big arch, then the yellow objects under them and so on, until the rainbow is completed.
~Submitted by Cheryl's Sweethearts ChildCare

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