Rainbow collage craft for kids

A fun, colourful craft to help little hands practise sorting, colour recognition and fine motor skills!

✂️ What You'll Need:

• A paper plate  (or use our free printable rainbow template)

• Child-safe glue stick

• Coloured paper scraps or craft materials in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple
  (Tissue paper, foil, magazine clippings, felt – whatever you have!)

• Black marker to draw rainbow lines and label the colours (optional but helpful)

🎨 How to Make It:

1. Prepare your base:
   Use a marker to draw 6 curved lines across a paper plate and label each section with a colour name to help your child match the scraps. Alternatively, download and print our free rainbow template on A4 to letter paper.

2. Set up the scraps:
   Sort your paper pieces into small bowls by colour – this makes it easier for kids to find what they need.

3. Glue it down:
   Starting with red on the outside, let your child glue scraps into the matching rainbow sections. Work your way through orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.

4. Let it dry:
   Once complete, leave it to dry for a few hours, cut a paper plate in half to form a rainbow arch before displaying proudly on the fridge or wall! .

💡 Tips:

• Encourage your child to talk about each colour and what items they can think of that are that colour.

• This craft is great for building hand strength and practising glue control.

• Older kids can cut their own scraps too!

Don’t have a paper plate?
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