Marshmallow painted rainbows

Yesterday the kids stamped rainbow fish using celery and had a great time. So, today we used marshmallows on toothpicks to make rainbows.

I printed out a rainbow template, and gave each kid six mini marshmallows stuck on toothpicks.

Then they used one marshmallow per color to make dots on their rainbows.

Rainbow fish

The kids had a blast with today's art project. They used celery as paint stamps to make rainbow fish.

I printed out the template from here. Then gave each child 6 pieces of cut celery, and a small paper plate with the 6 colors of paint. I helped our daycare friend (who is almost two), and my kids did their own. 

After their fish were done they just randomly stamped on paper since they were having so much fun. 

Do-A-Dot Rainbow

Today we did a quick Rainbow Do-A-Dot worksheet from Gift of Curiosity. The kids always love Do-A-Dot sheets so they enjoyed this.

We are seeing rainbows!

February was a rough month at our house. Lots of sickness and medical issues kept interrupting our regular routine. Everyone seems to be feeling better, the weather is warming up and spring is on its way.

Right on cue, our theme this week is rainbows. Today we made fruit loop rainbows (then ate some of the leftovers).  This project was one of our longest time-wise, but the kids seemed to enjoy it.

I helped each kid put a bunch of glue in the corner and they put the cotton balls on to look like clouds. Then I made a glue line for each color and let them know what color they should be placing. We actually started with green, and worked our way from the middle out to make sure it fit. 

I imagine these will take all day to dry since we used a lot of glue to hold everything in place.