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March 3, 2014

Paper Plate Rainbow Craft

Simple Spring Preschool Craft

Spring can’t come soon enough.  I miss the smell of flowers, freshly cut grass and rain.  To help brighten our walls and encourage the snow to melt, we made a simple paper plate rainbow craft.  We love simple crafts, especially ones that use paper plates.  Bring on the spring weather!

Paper Plate Rainbow Craft ~ Simple Spring Preschool activity

 Paper Plate Rainbow Supplies:

  • Paper plate ~ cut into the shape of a cloud
  • Strips of paper ~ red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet
  • Cotton Balls
  • Craft Glue
  • Stapler (optional)

Paper Plate Rainbow ~ Simple Spring Preschool craft

Using Glue with Kids

My kids love any project that involves gluing.  Have you seen our simple tutorial on how to make a glue sponge?  It has revolutionized how we use glue for simple projects.  However, squishing glue is a simple way to work on fine motor and eye/hand coordination skills.  We use both methods depending on the project.  For our simple rainbows, glue bottles were the tool of choice.

Paper Plate Rainbow ~ Simple Spring Preschool craft

 The kids loved squishing glue all over their paper plate cloud.  Their gluey cloud was then covered in puffy cotton balls.

Paper Plate Rainbow ~ Simple Spring Preschool craft

My kiddos love using a stapler (make sure to talk about how to use one safely).  Glue would work perfectly as well, but the kids requested to use a stapler to attach the rainbow colored paper strips to our puffy clouds.

It may be easier to do staple the rainbow strips on before gluing on the cotton balls, however the kids had already finished gluing.  Oh well, next time;)

Paper Plate Rainbow ~ Simple Spring Preschool craft

The kids decided they needed a few more cotton balls to finish off their clouds.  I love how the little cotton ball clouds are almost tumbling down the rainbow.  So sweet.

Paper Plate Rainbow ~ Housing A Forest

For more creative paper plate crafts, check out our:

Paper Plate Hedgehog

Shredded Paper Snowmen

Paper Plate Pumpkins

Paper Plate Pinterest Board

Related posts:

  1. Washi Tape Rainbow
  2. Rainbow Activities for Toddlers
  3. Paper Plate Hedgehog
  4. Paper Plate Sheep Craft
Posted in Kid Projects, Spring and tagged Cotton Balls, Glue, Paper Plate, Rainbow, Spring, St. Patrick's Day.

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  2. Rainbow Activities for Toddlers
  3. Paper Plate Hedgehog
  4. Paper Plate Sheep Craft
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