{"id":939,"date":"2015-02-19T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/19\/collaborative-rainbow-collage-for-kids-2\/"},"modified":"2018-05-17T09:06:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:06:31","slug":"collaborative-rainbow-collage-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/collaborative-rainbow-collage-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaborative Rainbow Collage for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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This week the boys wrote a play together called \u201cThe Magic Rainbow\u201d and they wanted to make their own Rainbow backdrop for their play to help set the scene. We had a supply of large sheets of cardboard left over from a recent splurge in Ikea, which were perfect for the job. It\u2019s definitely worth hanging onto a few cardboard boxes if you have the room to store them, as they are so useful for many different kids\u2019 arts and crafts projects.<\/p>\n

The first task was to paint the large sheet of cardboard sky blue. We even managed to get daddy involved with this, making it a whole family collaborative art project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We then left this to dry overnight before starting to create our rainbow collage the following day.\u00a0\u00a0After much discussion about how we would create the rainbow collage, we decided to use a different material for each of the different colours of the rainbow. We did have a slight altercation over what the colours of our rainbow should be, as it seems the boys have been taught a different version to the song I learnt in school. This was soon resolved with the call for them to go hunting for materials to use for the collage.<\/p>\n

We decided on:<\/p>\n

Red \u2013\u00a0tissue pape<\/a>r<\/p>\n

Yellow \u2013\u00a0squares of yellow card<\/a><\/p>\n

Pink \u2013\u00a0wool<\/a><\/p>\n

Green \u2013\u00a0buttons<\/a><\/p>\n

Orange \u2013 craft sticks<\/p>\n

Purple- sponge painting<\/p>\n

Blue \u2013\u00a0straws<\/a><\/p>\n

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The kids worked really well together on this (we won\u2019t mention Little Miss Bella\u2019s sponge painting incident!). They seem to take great pride in working together on a project and are much more respectful of each other\u2019s contribution. I think this is because they are working towards the same goal and are not in completion with each other. The play itself would have benenfited from a few more rehersals, but they still all recieved a standing ovation from the crowd (myself, hubby and nanna!)<\/p>\n

St Patricks Day is coming up soon and this would make a perfect St Patricks Day themed activity do with your kids at home. What materials will you be using to create your rainbows?<\/p>\n

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