A Fun Paper Roll Rainbow Painting

A simple rainbow craft make with paper paint and paper rolls. This is a great way to reuse paper rolls. And it is a super simple painting activity to set up and do.

Plus you can do this with different ages and have loads of fun. You can learn the colors of the rainbow while you paint and have a fun time painting with the paper rolls.

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The Paper Roll Rainbow Painting is a great addition to the paper roll crafts, rainbow crafts and St. Patrick’s Day crafts on the site.

Rainbows are so much fun to learn about. You can talk about the colors, the order of the colors, and what things might be that color.

One rainbow book we love is What Makes a Rainbow? Magic Ribbon Book. It has a fun way to build the rainbow as you read about the rainbow colors.

The Paper Roll Stamped Rainbow is a great craft for spring and St. Patrick’s day!

What you need to make the Paper Roll Rainbow Painting

These are all the items we use to make the paper roll rainbow. You can find links on Amazon for all the items.

• 6 paper rolls – You can cut these to make them smaller to get six
• paints: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple
• 12 x 18 inches paper
• paper plate

How to make the Paper Roll Rainbow

You are going to see the steps we used to make the paper roll rainbow

Paint On Paper Plates

We used paper plates to put our paint on and had a few colors on each plate. We used a small amount of paint and spread it around with the paper roll.

Start Painting the Rainbow

Then we use the paper roll to stamp the rainbow. We started with the color red at the top. You can see that we each picked our own way to make the rainbow.

If you want you can draw a line to help guide kids, but even if the rainbow is not perfect it is still fun to just stamp with paints. Let them decide how their rainbow will be.

Adding Each Row of Color to the Rainbow

After you finish the red move on to the next color of the rainbow. And remember these colors can overlap or be on their own row. It is still fun to make.

Keep Adding Rows of Color to the Rainbow

Just keep adding more colors of the rainbow. And remember this does not have to be a perfect rainbow. If they don’t do the full rainbow that is okay!

Talk About the Color of the Rainbow

You can also talk about the color of the rainbow as you make it. You can see a few examples questions below:

You can ask what things are red?
Where can you find something green?
What is your favorite item that is yellow?
Do you have a purple shirt?
Are there blue birds?
What season can you find a lot of the color orange?

If you used a rainbow book ask about what colors they saw in the book.

A look at our Final Paper Roll Rainbow

Check out these other Rainbow Crafts

Watercolor Rainbow Process Art is a super easy watercolor activity that kids can do! It is super fun to make the rainbow and see how pretty it is.

Rainbow Watercolor Pencil Painting is a great way to change up painting and see how much kids can fun with watching colors spread and mix with watercolor pencils.

Washi Tape Rainbow Wreaths is a great wreath for spring time. It has all the colors of the rainbow.

Tissue Paper Rainbow is a great way to brighten up a window during spring. It is great rainbow to have in your window.

Hand Print Rainbow is an easy painting activity using hands! Loads of fun and easy to do! Handprint art is loads of fun.

Rainbow Water Bead Sensory Bin is a great way to explore the colors of the rainbow with sensory play. Kids can find different colors and see if they can find all the colors from the rainbow.

Check out all the fun Rainbow Printables & Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.

Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com