Indoor Activities with Kids: 3 Ways to Rainbow
Reading stories aloud together builds vocabulary, improves comprehension, and promotes speech development. By adding a craft to the experience, you continue to build on story time learning; practicing motor skills and creativity, while reminding the child of themes and words from the story. It becomes active engagement (in the same way that adding the movement of Bendy Bookworm’s yoga poses do) in order to benefit the child’s optimal ability to learn through play.
Try this craft (Ideal for ages 6-9 years old). Pair it with “Luna’s Map” by Danielle Fisher for an At Home: Story Time and Craft Activity.
Cognitive Skills: vocabulary, pattern recognition, and visual processing
Motor Skills: drawing shapes, cutting, and glueing (practiced during the craft)
Emotional Skills: friendship, courage, independence
Materials:
Color Markers or Crayons
Paper plate
Pencil
Scissors and Glue
Colored Tissue Paper
Optional: Glitter, cotton balls, construction paper
Step One:
*Cut paper plate in half (to make a half circle). Draw 5 semi-circle lines for each rainbow color.
Step Two:
*Color in each stripe. I used colored tissue paper, but feel free to use crayons, markers, colored pencils, paint, etc.
Step Three:
*Attach color stripes behind paper plate.
Option Two:
*Glue cotton balls to paper plate half to make a cloud.
Option Three:
*Use crayons and construction paper to turn paper plate half into a sun.
Have you heard the Rainbow Song? It’s a cognitive song that teaches order and the colors of the rainbow! Listen to it HERE!