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HANDPRINT RAINBOW CRAFT
This can easily be modified
into a non St-Patrick's day Biblical craft project - it goes well with the Noah's ark
story. Or color the bird blue for a "Somewhere over the rainbow..." Wizard of Oz
craft.
This is a nice easy craft that works well for
all ages.
Educational ideas to go with the craft:
 | For young children, practice naming their colours. Say "can you glue the red handprint, can you glue the orange
handprint, etc"
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| For older children, practice the order of the
rainbow colours. Ask them to glue the handprints together in the same order as the
rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet).
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| For an alphabet/phonics challenge, write on a
white sheet where you want them to glue the handprints... use the first letter of each
colour on the sheet (R O Y G B I V) and see if they can match the colours with the
letters.
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| When you're done, ask the child what colours mix
together to make orange (red and yellow). Point out that orange is in between red
and yellow on the rainbow. Repeat with green (in between yellow and blue).
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| I bet you didn't know rainbows could be so
educational!
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MATERIALS:
| Rainbow colours of tempra paint, OR |
| Rainbow colours of paper (I prefer construction
paper), OR |
| Rainbow colours of craft foam.
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INSTRUCTIONS:
| Either:
 | have child make tempra paint handprints in
rainbow colours |
| trace child's hand on rainbow colours of paper or
craft foam, or |
| mix it up a bit (a few paint hands, a few traced
hands) |
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| See the "Glue to form
rainbow" points for how many handprints you'll need. |
| Let dry as necessary. |
| Cut out the handprints, this step may require
adult assistance. |
| Glue to form a rainbow
| if you have lots of patience or lots of kids, you
can glue 5 prints in each colour to make a "real" looking rainbow, OR |
| Just make 5 to 7 prints in different colours and
glue into a rainbow shape... it isn't quite as rainbow looking, but it's quite a bit
faster and still gets the point across.
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OPTIONAL:
| Print pot of gold template of choice, colour
(B&W version) and cut out. Use to decorate your rainbow OR
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| For a Biblical craft, make a
white handprint dove (or a blue handprint bluebird for the Wizard of Oz) with thumb
extended as far as possible and fingers held together (see my rough drawing below).
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| Close the template window after printing to return to this
screen.
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| Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the
template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers). |
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