Tissue Paper Rainbow Craft for Kids

Rainbows make great crafts for kids, and this tissue paper rainbow craft is great for Saint Patrick’s day and spring.

The rainbow tissue paper craft is super simple to make with kids.

You can work on the colors of the rainbow and make great fine motor craft with tissue paper.

The Tissue Paper Rainbow is a great addition to the St Patrick’s Day crafts, spring crafts, and rainbow crafts on the site.

Tissue Paper Crafts

Tissue paper crafts are loads of fun because you can use them as window displays, and it is fun for kids to make them.

Tissue Paper Rainbow Craft

The Tissue Paper Rainbow Craft is great for spring and Saint Patrick’s Day. You can work on the colors of the rainbow and the order of the colors while making the craft.

You can also talk about when you might see a rainbow.

Colors the of Rainbow

You can talk with kids about the different colors of the rainbow red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.

You can talk about items that have those colors as you make a rainbow.

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Rainbow Book You can Read with this Rainbow Craft

You can read the book What Makes a Rainbow? Magic Ribbon Book. The book has ribbons on each page to make the rainbow. It is a fun book to read with kids.

What you need to make the Tissue Paper Rainbow Craft

• wax paper cut into same size pieces
• tissue paper of various colors
• glue
• scissors

How we made our Tissue Paper Rainbow Craft

You will see the steps below we used to make our tissue paper rainbow craft.

Measuring the Wax Paper

We wanted the wax paper to all be the same. So we used a sheet of paper to make it the same size. We used a 9 by 12 watercolor paper to help us measure.

You can use any size of paper you want, but using the paper helps make all the wax the same size.

Putting Glue on the Wax Paper

You can lets kids decide how their rainbow will look. The size and the same should be up to them.

You can use clear glue and regular glue. We just happened to only have clear glue this day.

Putting on the Colors of the Rainbow

After you have the glue on, you use red to start at the top of the rainbow. You could start at the bottom and work up but we found it best to start at the top of the rainbow.

Repeat the Glue and Colors for the Rainbow

You then repeat the glue and the colors until you have all the colors of the rainbow.

Use a Light Blue for the Sky

After you have the rainbow done, you can make the sky. We used a lighter blue than the rainbow blue to make the sky.

If you don’t want to do a sky, you could just cut out the rainbow.

Final look at our Rainbow Tissue Paper Craft

More Rainbow Crafts and Activities for Kids

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.

Sequencing: Seeing A Rainbow has four steps in seeing a rainbow. A simple and easy way to work on the order of events to see a rainbow with clip cards, easy reader books, task cards and more.

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

Torn Scrapbook Paper Rainbow is a fun way to use left over scrapebook paper and make rainbows. Plus works on fine motor tearing the paper.

Romping & Roaring R Pack: Rainbow is a super easy rainbow letter r pack for kids to work on. You have rainbow coloring pages, rainbow matching puzzles, rainbow prewriting and more in the letter r is for rainbow pack.

The Rainbow Fine Motor Mats have 6 rainbow fine motor mats with tracing, coloring, q-tip and dot marker. All with a rainbow theme to help kids work on fine motor skills.

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