COLORS - Part 4 Rainbow day  *Have each child wear a different color. *Eat Froot Loops for snack.  *Make and eat Rice Crispy treats that are colored with food coloring. *Color rainbows or make rainbows with construction paper and do glitter pots of gold at the end.  *Make stuff using colored macaroni. *Use colored tissue paper to make a collage. *Rainbow stew in ziploc bags. *Put different colored cellophane on the windows. * Making rainbows Place a small mirror in a clear glass of water and tilt it against the side of the glass.  Stand the glass in a window, in direct sunlight, so that the mirror reflects a rainbow on a wall.  Give your children glasses of water and mirrors and let them help you make as many rainbows as possible.  Do all the rainbows have the same colors?  How many colors are in each rainbow?  Are there any double rainbows? * Rainbows Outside On a sunny day, use a garden hose to spray a fine mist of water across the sun;s rays.  have your children stand with their backs to the sun and look for a rainbow in the mist.  *Rainbow Jars Collect 6 empty spice jars and remove the labels from them.  Let your children fill the spice jars with water.  Add a different color of food clolring to each jar to make the colors of a rainbow (  red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet)  Let your children line up the jars on a window sill so the sunlight can shine through them. *Song If you want to see a rainbow (sung to If your happy and you know it) If you want to see a rainbow, check the sky. Just as its raining, look up high. With the sun behind your back, you will see the colors stacked. Oh, I love to see a rainbow in the sky! *A RAINBOW I see a rainbow. It is more coloruful than... My favorite rainbow color is... If I look uner the rainbow, I will find... To catch a rainbow, I will... I can use my rainbow to... If I had two rainbows, I would give one to... *Rainbow O Necklaces Have the children string fuit Loops or other colored O cereal on yarn or string. Be sure you knot the one end before they start stringing their necklace to prevent the O's from falling off. *Rainbow Plates 2 Paper Plates   Colored Cellophane  Glue Cut out a large circle in the middle of 2 paper plates. Glue colored cellophane to cover the hole on one plate, and then glue the two plates together. Children look through and see the world as different colors. *Colored Noodles 2lb Noddles( wheels, long tubes) any thing that you can string.   3 bottles Alcohol   Food Coloring Place noddles in a large container so that there is room for the alcohol. Add the alcohol and food coloring. Make sure all noodles are covered and let stand as long as you wish the longer the noodles are in the solution the brighter the colors are. You can use half a bag for one color and etc. Place noodles on paper towels to dry, it takes a few hours, but when done let children string or sort the noodles. *Make and eat Rice Crispy treats that are colored with food coloring. *Glitter Sparkle Bottles: Remove the label from a clean, clear 16oz. plastic soda bottle. Pour at least 1/2 cup of light corn syrup into the bottle. Then add a few drops of food coloring and some glitter and/or confetti. Hot glue the lid onto the bottle. Have the children swirl and shake the bottle and watch it's movement. Use a certain color--or a rainbow of colors! *I do a song to the tune of If You're Happy and You Know It. If you're wearing red please stand up. If you're wearing red please stand up. Stand up and turn around then please sit back down If you're wearing red please sit down. You can change the color, use a variety! * Making rainbows Place a small mirror in a clear glass of water and tilt it against the side of the glass.  Stand the glass in a window, in direct sunlight, so that the mirror reflects a rainbow on a wall.  Give your children glasses of water and mirrors and let them help you make as many rainbows as possible.  Do all the rainbows have the same colors?  How many colors are in each rainbow?  Are there any double rainbows? * Rainbows Outside On a sunny day, use a garden hose to spray a fine mist of water across the sun;s rays.  have your children stand with their backs to the sun and look for a rainbow in the mist.  * Rainbow Jars Collect 6 empty spice jars and remove the labels from them.  Let your children fill the spice jars with water.  Add a different color of food clolring to each jar to make the colors of a rainbow (  red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet)  Let your children line up the jars on a window sill so the sunlight can shine through them. *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! *Rainbow Art Set out pieces of white paper and crayons in six rainbow colors.  Invite your children to create their own rainbow art, drawing whatever they want with the 6 colors colors.  Display their artwork in a rainbow shape on a wall or board. *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 childrenn 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. *Spinning colors Cut a circle out of heavy paper.  Divide the disk into 6 equal sections. Color each section a different color of the rainbow.  Poke the circle onto the point of a sharpened pencil.  Show the circle to the children.  Ask them to predict what they will see when you spin the circle.  When the circle is spun, instead of seeing 6 colors, you will see white ( or close to white, depending on the purity of the colors and how equal the sections are).  This is the reverse of what happens when a raibow is made from white light seperated into the six colors seen.  This experiment take those 6 colors and whirls them together to make white. *Rainbow Train sung to The mulberry bush The rianbow train is coming to town coming to town, coming to town. the rainbow train is coming to town It's moving very fast! The rainbow train is full of toys Full of toys, full of toys The rainbow train is full of toys For all the girls and boys! Th red car's filled with bats and balls Bats and balls, bats and balls. The red car's filled with bats and balls For all the girls and boys. The orange car's filled with puzzles and blocks, Puzzles and blocks, puzzles and blocks. The orange car's filled with puzzles and blocks For all the girls and boys. The yellow car's filled with dolls and planes, Dolls and planes, dolls and planes. The yellow car's filled with dolls and planes, For all the girls and boys. The green car's filled with cars and boats, Cars and boats, cars and boats. The green car's filled with cars and boats, For all the girls and boys. The Blue car's filled with whistles and drums, Whistles and drums, whistles and drums. The blue car's filled with whistles and drums, For all the girls and boys. The purple car's filled with marbles and tops, Marbles and tops, marbles and tops. The purple car's filled with marbles and tops, For all the girls and boys. Red and orange, yellow and green Blue and purple cars I see. The rainbow train is here at last I'm glad it came so fast! *Game Rainbow, Rainbow, GOLD!! Play like you would Duck, Duck, Goose! *You could teach them about leprechauns!  That theme goes along with a pot of gold! Have them search for gold coins(cardboard colored gold) or even a bowl of pennies...  make them answer riddles and whoever wins gets a bags of pennies.  * Simple hanging rainbow.   Cut succesively larger half circles in the appropriate colors for ; R O Y G B I V.  Glue half circles on top of one another from largest to smallest. I f you want you can glue a puff oa cotton onto the corners for clouds. Put a hole in the top, add a string and you have a hanging rainbow. * Make a rainbow necklace by stringing beads in the approriate colors. *read the story The Rainbow Fish, and then cut a large fish shape out of white construction paper.  Then we used watercolor paints, talked about what colors were in the rainbow, and then the kids painted their fish.  They were beautiful  When they dried, some children wanted to put aluminum foil on the fish to make the Rainbow Fish's beautiful scales.  These were wonderful!  *"Did You Ever Hear A Rainbow"  (Did You Ever See A Lassie)   Did you ever hear a rainbow,   a rainbow, a rainbow   Did you ever hear a rainbow   FORGET TO SAY PLEASE?     Did you ever hear a rainbow,   a rainbow, a rainbow   Did you ever hear a rainbow say   ICKY OLD PEAS?     Did you ever hear a rainbow   a rainbow, a rainbow   Did you ever hear a rainbow say   ______ BROKE THE CHALK? (insert a child's name)     Did you ever hear a rainbow,   a rainbow, a rainbow   No, I never heard a rainbow   CAUSE RAINBOWS CAN"T TALK!   *  Under The Rainbow (Up On The Housetop)   First comes the rain cloud passing by   Dropping raindrops in my eye   Then comes the sunshine up so high   Now a rainbow in the sky   Yea-Yea-Yea who wouldn't go   Under the rainbow, yes, siree,   Under the rainbow you and me.     *  Barney's Rainbow   Simple and beautiful a rainbow   So pretty for the eyes to see   There's red, orange and yellow   green, blue and purple   And it's curved like this you see.     Somebody told me that a rainbow   has a pot of gold at the end   I don't really know if that's so   But it's kind of fun to pretend   It was made for you and me.   *another rainbow idea that I have used is to crush egg shells and glue them in the shape of a rainbow on thick construction paper.  Now paint the rows of the rainbow.  Wa-La!  You can also pre-dye the egg shells with easter egg colors and then glue them on the paper in the shape of the rainbow.  they can be dyed either on a hard boiled eggs, or just with the shells.  The kids love this craft.  Also, when ever we make a rainbow, we act out the story of Noah. We put all of our stuffed animals into a boat (made with couch cushions) and the kids are Noah and fam.  I always get to be God...LOL!  They all carry umbrellas, and I squirt them with a squirt bottle.  They totally love it!!! You can finish this story time with the song "Rise and Shine..." *Rainbows Have the children paint rainbows using water colors. Have them tell you where they think rainbows come from. *make rainbows. I cut a paper plate in a rainbow shape(one plate makes two rainbows.) The children glued colored yarn, colored sticks, or colored the rainbow colors onto the plate. They used the color sequence of a real rainbow. *Read Don Freeman's A Rainbow of my Own.