A Rainbow of Colors: Spin Art

• Small Group Art Project "Rainbow Spin Art": A paper plate was placed into a salad spinner. The students added paint with a spoon or eye dropper. They took turns spinning the salad spinner and created interesting patterns. 

• Obstacle Course “Reaching the Rainbow” : Students partnered up and completed an obstacle course together. We focused on cooperation and paying close attention to our partner, e.g., carrying a basket together.

Teamwork

• Favorite Activity of the Day: The Students determined their favorite activity of the day by placing smiley faces on our activity schedule board.   

Christopher is adding a smiley face to our activity board.

A Rainbow of Colors: Tissue Color Mix

• Warm-up Game “Freeze”: The students danced around when the music played and froze when the music stopped. Everyone did a fantastic job paying attention to the music.
• Art Project “Rainbow Tissue Color Mix”: Students used starch to brush tissue pieces onto wax paper. By overlapping shapes, they created new colors (e.g., bright blue over yellow to create green). 

• Rainbow Treasure Hunt: Students worked together and completed different tasks in order to find a treasure. 

1. Fishing Game: Students fished for the different colors of the rainbow and then put the rainbows together on a separate piece of paper.
2. Bowling: Students worked together to get 50 points. Each knocked down bowling pin equaled 1 point. 
3. Rainbows were hidden in the classroom. The students had to find the rainbows. The rainbows were their tokens that opened the treasure chest.

A Rainbow of Colors: Contact Paper Collage

 Today, it was all about cooperation.

• Warm-up game “Rainbow Bowling”: The students engaged in a bowling game and practiced cheering for their friends .
•  “Rainbow Collage”: Students created a collage by attaching a variety of art materials in a rainbow of colors (e.g., tissue paper, fabric, etc.) onto contact paper (sticky side up).

  


“A Rainbow of Colors”: We filled a big bin with colored rock salt, salt and rice to create a rainbow. We also added different containers (e.g., funnels, bottles) as well as hidden small objects. The students were encouraged to engage in cooperative play (e.g., filling a bottle together with the help of a funnel).  

A Rainbow of Colors: Plexiglass Painting

Today, we focused on teamwork and giving and following directions.

 

“Rainbow Plexiglass Painting”: Students painted a big sheet of plexiglass together using brushes and Q-tips as well as paint in a rainbow of colors. They then made imprints by placing a piece of paper on the painted side of the plexiglass.

Rainbow Parachute Play:

Students played and experimented with the parachute (e.g., creating small and big waves, crawling under the parachute). We had fun singing our rainbow chant while creating waves and lifting the parachute up: RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, PURPLE...IT'S A RAINBOW!