So after Circle Time, where we had a discussion about rainbows and their colors and how the colors are in certain order, we set about making our own rainbow pictures. We used a rainbow pattern, paint and q-tips to paint the rainbow, a sun pattern, blue rice for the raindrops, and cottonballs for the clouds. They could make their picture however they wanted using whatever materials they wanted, although I did have a couple rainbow patterns available that I had colored for the older ones who would want to get the colors in the right order.

The finished products:

Note below Colby and Aiden's names. The first two C's in the corner was Colby trying to figure out how to write his name in the corner (his choice of location, by the way), so the two C's were his first two attempts. He then determined that there was not enough room to write it in that direction, so he chose to write it backwards...including the letters! Aiden then determined that this was the perfect solution, and followed suit.

The next day, we continued the rainbow theme. Since we had leftovers from yesterday's project, I  just added construction paper in the rainbow colors, and let them do whatever they wanted.

I also added some of my colored rainbow patterns by the easel. I also mentioned during storytime that each side of the easel had three colors from the rainbow. If you needed a color from the other side, you would have to ask nicely to trade colors with your friend painting on the other side. It was not only a lesson in manners and sharing, but cooperation and strategy as well, as they would also have to what color their friend needed or was done with, to determine which colors to trade. I said nothing about what to paint, just pointed out that these were colors from the rainbow.