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January 19, 2009 | 21 Comments

Letter Of The Week ! R r !

Rainbow R !


My son is so into rainbows right now, I have no clue why but I am running with it! Doing anything with rainbows is a great opportunity to talk about many colors, patterns and with older children optical illusions. My 2 year old won’t be learning about that for a while but we have been chatting about colors all day.

  1. Gather your materials. You will need multiple pages of construction paper, however you don’t need the whole page, so you may be able to round up enough from your scrap pile. The colors you will needs are red, orange yellow, green, blue and purple. Also you will need a back piece, a plain white sheet of regular paper , scissors, black marker and glue.
  2. Start by making a big R outlined in black marker on a thin white piece of paper, it needs to be thin so after you finish the gluing you can see the outline for cutting.
  3. Cut the colored paper into strips, we needed 2 of each color, I just stacked the paper and cut .
  4. Add the glue, this is a great opportunity to let your child do the glue since it needs to be all over and not precise at all.
  5. Start stacking the strips, I did the first few then handed them to my son to glue on, he yelled out the color and we had fun. Normally I wouldn’t have played such a large role, but I knew he would love the end result. If he had insisted I would have been fine with just letting him go too, let them decide.
  6. Let the strips dry on the R.
  7. When dry cut it out following the lines on the back.
  8. Glue onto a piece of construction paper.

Additional Activities

You can’t have a rainbow without water!
Check out my latest contribution to

to learn more about why when your child is playing with water they are doing much more than just making a mess in your kitchen !

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21 Comments

  1. Sarah says

    January 19, 2009 at 8:08 am

    I just discovered your website from the Crafty Crow. It’s wonderful!!! So many great ideas! I can’t wait to use some of them with my preschooler.

    Thanks!

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  2. Erin says

    January 19, 2009 at 8:47 am

    We are VERY into rainbows right now, and our favorite rainbow book is called

    “Duckie’s Rainbow” and is written Frances Barry. check it out at your library, it is a great book!

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  3. kidletsmum says

    January 19, 2009 at 9:55 am

    He must be thinking about Equality Week… good on ya, little guy!

    Great craft, Allie.

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  4. *~*Lis*~* says

    January 19, 2009 at 10:11 am

    Awesome!!! Now when I get to R I’ll have a choice of activities – I’ll let Lorelei decide since I’d never be able to pick just one 🙂

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  5. Jeremiah and Lindsey Kindy says

    January 19, 2009 at 10:42 am

    i have been checking out your blog for a while now and i was wondering if you had any craft ideas for our kids… my bro-in-law is coming home from Dubai this weekend and we are making banners to greet him with at the airport, but we are looking for somethings to decorate the house with… any suggestions… of course we want to use RED WHITE and BLUE. thanks for any help!

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  6. Allie says

    January 19, 2009 at 10:58 am

    Lindsey- I left some ideas on your blog!

    Erin – Thanks for the book recommendation!

    Kidletsmum – I thought the same thing!

    Sarah and Lis – glad you liked the craft my son really did too.

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  7. Ohana Mama says

    January 19, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    Love it! We love rainbows too! Will have to try this one for sure!

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  8. Anonymous says

    January 19, 2009 at 8:15 pm

    hi! i just read your post and immediately thought of these http://omnomicon.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-to-make-rainbow-cake.html that i had just come across on a different blog! thought you might enjoy given the recent rainbow post!

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  9. jk says

    January 19, 2009 at 9:36 pm

    Another great craft to do to help learn our letters around here – thank you! My daughter in particular will like make the rainbow stripes…

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  10. Allie says

    January 19, 2009 at 10:29 pm

    That cake is so cool !

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  11. Andrea says

    January 20, 2009 at 12:40 pm

    So cool! Can’t wait to try it.

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  12. CC says

    January 22, 2009 at 10:43 pm

    cutest R yet!

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