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Twisty Rainbow Color Matching Activity Terrific for Toddlers and Preschoolers Posted: 28 Feb 2022 06:00 AM PST Click here to read Twisty Rainbow Color Matching Activity Terrific for Toddlers and Preschoolers on Hands On As We Grow® Make a super cute twisty rainbow craft while matching colors in this simple and fun activity! Let’s face it, anything that is bright and colorful is going to grab your child’s attention. Especially if it's the colors of the rainbow! My girls are obsessed with rainbows. And to tell you truth, so am I. I had a rainbow wedding! Activities and crafts that portray rainbows will always catch my girls attention. This fine motor cotton ball rainbow and rainbow sponge painting were definitely those attention grabbing activities. Learning colors is so much fun for kids and it can be incorporated into many activities. Art, crafts, science, fine motor, gross motor etc. Everywhere, everyday we see and use colors. So let’s keep our excitement for colors going and try some more activities. Twisty Rainbow Color Matching Activity To Create You Own Color Matching Activity, You Will Need: colored paper strips colored paper circles an additional single sheet of paper (white or black) glue stick scissors Quick and Easy Setup Cut out 2 circles and one long strip of each colored piece of paper. Older kids can help with this part too! Ensure your strips are long enough to bend over like a rainbow from one side of the single sheet of paper to the other. Tip: Cut the strip down the long side of the page or, better yet, diagonally across the center. Now you are ready to get matching and creating a fun twisted up rainbow craft. Download the FREE Week of Color Learning Activities PDF Start Your Color Matching Activity Fun First, have your child use the glue stick to glue down all the circles randomly onto the single sheet of paper. Encourage them to mix the colors up all over the page. Gluing is great fine motor practice for kids. Whether it’s with using glue stick or school glue, it’s great for hand-eye coordination. As you can see, I placed a flyer sheet on the table as my child did this as she is still learning to glue and she will sometimes glue onto the table. Makes for easy clean up. Check out this easy flower activity for some more color matching and glueing fun. The next step in your activity is to start matching those colors. Have your child take one colored strip at a time and match it to the colored circles. When they have found the matching circle, have them glue one end of the color strip to each circle forming a rainbow bend. You will now see why it’s important to have strips long enough. We actually had to make more at this point as our strips were a little too short. Tip: Fold a bend in the ends of each color matching strip to make the glueing part of the activity a bit easier. Continue matching and gluing each strip. One color at a time. My daughter was so excited when she finished all her color matching. If fact, she was so proud of her color matching activity that we had to stick it to her bedroom door to see it everyday. Displaying children’s artwork gives them a sense of ownership and boosts self esteem! So don’t forget to put up those crazy and silly creations your child has made. I love how this simple color matching activity turned out. It’s like a twisted up rainbow. So cool! Abstract Art at it’s best! What other color matching activities have you done with your children? Have you ever created abstract art with your kids? Share with us.

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