Rainbow Mobiles

Today I showed the kids how to make a rainbow using a container of water, a mirror and a flashlight. All week we've been talking about how white light is actually a mix of all the colors and when it hits a raindrop, the colors separate. So the fact that I could show them that today was a huge deal. They loved it. Then we made another rainbow craft. First I had the kids paint a small paper plate. They painted the rim red, all the way around in a circle, then orange and so on.

We had also learned that rainbows are actually a full circle, but we can only see half of it from the ground, so this was a great craft to review that.

Once dry, I cut the paper plate in half to make two rainbows. I used a sun hole punch and a raindrop stencil to make a bunch of suns and raindrops to hang from curling ribbon. I used a glue stick to attach the raindrop or sun to one end of the ribbon.

Then I stuck another one on top.

The kids glued on one sun ribbon and up to four raindrop ribbons to the back of one-half of the paper plate.

Then I stapled both halves together to make a two-sided rainbow.

Is any of this making sense? It's really not that complicated, I just feel like I'm not explaining it very well. Anyway, I hung the mobiles from the ceiling and they look so pretty!

**Linking up to Sharing Saturday, The Sunday Showcase and Rainbow Connection at Bent on Better Lunches!**