Titus’s Middle School class Easter party had fun with a competition called Tournament of the Peeps. We had 4 teams, each a different color of Peep, and they played Minute-to-Win-it type games.
Angry Peeps
Stand 4 bunny Peeps of each color at one side of the table. 1 participant from each team will stand at the other side of the room. Use a rubber band to knock over the Peeps of the other team colors in one minute. Once all of your Peeps are knocked over you are out while the other teams keep playing.
Peeps in a Nest
One of your teammates will hold an Easter basket on his head, at one side of the room. Another teammate will get 10 Peeps and stand 6 feet away from the buckets. The teammate with the Peeps will see how many of the 10 he can toss into their teams bucket. You only have 1 minute.
Peep Tower
Teams will use 6 Chick Peeps to build the tallest Peep Tower in 1 minute. Peeps can be torn, stacked, or whatever other method the team comes up with to make the tallest tower (no other supplies allowed).
Peep in Your Face
Place 8 Peeps on a place at the table. 1 player from each team will stand at the table with hands behind their back. They player has 1 minutes to eat as many Peeps as he can.
Peep Catapult
Each team will build a catapult in 5 minutes. Teams will have access to craft sticks, rubber bands, and plastic spoons. First stack 5-7 craft sticks and use the rubber bands to fasten them on each end. Then make a stack of 2 craft sticks and fasten them together on 1 end only. Pull the 2 sticks apart and wedge the stack of sticks between them. Use 2 rubber bands to secure the spoon to the upper craft stick. Place a Peep on the spoon and hold the base of the catapult securely against the floor with one hand. Use the other hand to push down the spoon. Release the spoon and the Peep should fly.
Place an Easter basket 3 feet away from the catapult See how many Peeps you can catapult into your basket in 1 minute.
I made homemade cinnamon rolls for Easter morning breakfast…
Ingredients:
Dough
1 cup warm milk
1 tablespoon instant dry yeast
2 tablespoons white granulated sugar
1 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons softened butter
1 large egg
3 cups all-purpose flour
Filling
1/2 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
Icing
4 ounces cream softened cheese
1/4 cup softened butter
1 to 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 to 2 tablespoons milk
Directions:
In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine warm milk and yeast… let set for 5-10 minutes.
Add sugar, salt, butter, and eggs. Add in flour. Using a dough hook, turn the mixer on to a low speed.
Once the flour starts to mix into the dough, increase the speed to a medium range. Add more flour as necessary so that the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl. It should be soft, but not stick to your hands.
Transfer the dough to a lightly greased mixing bowl. Cover with a towel and let rise until double in size, about 1 hour.
Lightly grease a baking pan. Punch down the dough and roll into a 12inch by 18inch rectangle.
In a small bowl, combine the butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. Spread on top of the dough. Roll up tightly lengthwise so you have one long roll. Use a sharp knife to cut the dough into 12 one-inch slices.
Place the slices onto a lightly 9×13 pan. Cover and let rise 30 to 45 minutes.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Bake the rolls for about 20 minutes, until the tops have a touch of brown.
While the cinnamon rolls are baking, make the cream cheese icing by using a hand mixer to whip together cream cheese and butter in a bowl until light and fluffy. Whip in powdered sugar and vanilla extract. Add enough milk to get a super soft consistency.
Frost the rolls while still warm and spring sprinkles. Serve immediately or cool and store. Stays good for 4 to 5 days.
Pour 3 1/2 cups of batter into the bottom of the cupcake and bake for 15 minutes.
Then pour 2 1/2 cups of batter into the top of the cake and bake for 45 minutes. (I used the extra batter to make a few cupcakes).
Let it cool in the pan for 15 minutes, then remove to a cooling grid until is completely cools.
Level both cakes with a sharp knife and add butter cream between the layers.
Buttercream Icing
Ingredients:
1 cup butter
1 cup Crisco
4 cups powdered sugar (2 lbs)
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 tablespoon milk (if thick)
Directions:
Cream together the butter and Crisco with a mixer.
Slowly add in 1 cup of powdered sugar at a time.
Add the vanilla, if it seems too thick you can add a bit of milk.
Marshmallow Fondant Recipe
Ingredients:
16 oz. Mini Marshmallows
3 TBSP water
2 lbs Powdered Sugar (4 cups)
Crisco
Directions:
Grease a large glass bowl with Crisco.
Pour in the marshmallows and water; then microwave at 30- second intervals, stirring after each interval, until melted.
Reserve about 1/4 cup of the powdered sugar. Place the red of the powdered sugar in a large bowl of a standing mixer.
Grease the paddle attachment with Crisco and pour in the melted marshmallows on top of the powdered sugar.
Beat until a dough form; there will be a lot of loose bits and sugar in the bottom of the bowl.
Grease a clean work surface with Crisco and dump out the fondant and all the loose bits. Grease your hands liberally with Crisco and knead the mixture together, just like kneading bread, for about 5 minutes until smooth.
Grease hands again as needed. As the fondant becomes smoother, use the reserved powdered sugar to coat the surface to keep it from sticking.
Once smooth, you can divide and color the fondant. While working with one piece, cover the remaining fondant with plastic wrap to keep it from drying out.
When you have your colors finished coat the fondant in a light layer or Crisco; wrap in plastic wrap and place in a large baggie for at least an hour, preferably overnight.
Store at room temperature for several months. To us it, dust the surface and rolling pin with powdered sugar and roll out to 1/8 of an inch.
Coconut Bunny Cupcakes
I used the extra cake batter from the Bunny Booty Cake to make a few cupcakes.
Put the icing on the top of the cupcakes and dip them into the coconut.
Then cut the mini marshmallows diagonally and dip the sticky part into the pink sugar sprinkles.
Place the marshmallows on the cupcake for the ears.
Place 2 candy eyes on the cupcake too.
Cut a tiny marshmallow ball and roll it into the pink sugar for the nose.
Easter Candy Charcuterie Board
This year I decided not to give the older kids individual Easter baskets. Instead I made yummy snack mix on a tray with their favorite Easter foods. I chose to use an oval shaped serving tray to look like an egg, but you can use any shape serving tray.
For her 8 month photos, I chose Tiana since it’s spring and we could take a trip to the lake! I love the way they turned out even though it was too sunny for her to smile!
Kiss the Frog!
We took some photos inside too, so that I could get some smiles 🙂
8 months old and moving all over now! I love being creative with her! This April I found this cute tub and added some bubbles and rubber ducks for this photo shoot!
We took a trip to the park and found this fence to take a few more pictures with the tub! I just love the way they turned out even though it was hard for her to smile with the sun in her eyes.
I tried to add the bubbles outside too, but it was much too windy for them to stick around for too long.
I made Fruit Pizza and Vegge Pizza for Easter this year. This is also the first year that I made a homemade Easter meal for the family. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic we had to stay home rather than going to family’s houses for Easter dinner.
Fruit Pizza
Ingredients:
1 Sugar Cookie Dough
1 Marshmallow Cream
1 Cream Cheese
Fruit
Directions:
First grease a cookie sheet and place roll out the sugar cookie dough in the shape of an Easter egg.
Bake at 350 for 12 minutes.
Let it completely cool.
Mix together the marshmallow cream and the cream cheese and cover the cookie egg.
Cut the fruit to small pieces and decorate the Easter egg.
Vegge Pizza
Ingredients:
1 Crescent Roll Dough
1 Ranch Packet
1 Cream Cheese
Broccoli
Carrots
Shredded Cheddar Cheese
Directions:
First grease a cookie sheet and place crescent roll triangles on the sheet.
Bake at 350 for 8 minutes.
Let it completely cool.
Mix together the ranch packet and the cream cheese and cover the triangles.
Chop the broccoli and place on the wide end of the triangles.
Shred the carrot and cover the rest of the triangles.
Add shredded cheddar to the carrot portion of the triangles.
They should look like triangle carrots 🙂
Traditional Easter
Even though we had to stay home we tried to have all of the traditional Easter fun that we usually do (except attending church)… egg dying, egg hunting, and Easter baskets!
My nieces and nephews live so far away and I usually mail them each an Easter basket. But the baskets are so expensive to mail, so I tried something new this year. I looked for flatter Easter items to fill a large envelope for each of them.
They sent me pictures with some of the things from their basket envelopes for me.
Easter Baskets
I, of course, made Easter baskets for my kids as well…
Today we talked about the science behind rainbows. We learned that all a rainbow needs is light and water so we went outside to try to create some or our own rainbows. Today we included more rainbow crafts, science, math, literature, and snacks.
What Makes a Rainbow
Discuss: A rainbow needs light and water for us to see it. Show a simple demonstration of how we bend light by using a straight straw and a clear cup that is half filled with water. Even though the straw is straight, it looks bent when we put it into the water. That is just the light bending. When we bend light, it is called “refraction.” Let’s bend some more light. Show the kids a prism, go outside and used a prism to create a rainbow on a piece of white paper. Why do we see rainbows when it rains? The raindrops are like a tiny prism, bending the light that comes from the sun. So we need both sun (light) and rain (prism) at the same time to make a rainbow in the sky. Let’s do a simple demonstration to see how the sun and water make a rainbow. We’ll use the hose in the backyard to make a rainbow. Make sure the sun is behind us and the water is in front of us.
Read: What Is a Rainbow? By Chris Arvetis and Carole Palmer
Comprehension Questions:
What makes a rainbow? Light and water
Fruit Loop Bagel Breakfast
Materials:
Plain Bagels
Cream Cheese
Fruit Loops
Directions:
spread cream cheese on the bagel
place the fruit loops in the shape of a rainbow
Tissue Paper Rainbow
Materials:
colors of tissue papers
pencil with a full eraser
school glue
white cardstock with an outline of a rainbow on it
markers or crayons
Directions:
Have the children use the markers or crayons to color in the colors they want their rainbow to look like.
Cut the tissue into 1 inch squares.
Pour some school glue onto a tray or plate.
Have your child take one piece of tissue, and show them how to center (approximately!) the eraser onto it.
Wrap the tissue up around the pencil.
Dip into the glue.
Hold onto the edges of the tissue, and press the glue tipped end onto the paper, matching up the color from your picture. Slide the pencil out.
Rainbow in a Box
Discuss: Like water drops in falling rain, the CD separates white light into all the colors that make up the rainbow. The colors you see reflecting from a CD are interference colors, like the shifting colors you see on a soap bubble or an oil spill. You can think of light as as being made up of waves-like the waves in the ocean. When light waves reflect off the ridges on your CD, they overlap and interfere with each other. Sometimes the waves add together to make a rainbow.
Materials:
CD
Box
Flashlight
Directions:
Shine a flashlight on an old CD in the bottom of a box turned on it’s side.
Turn off the lights, and move the flashlight across the CD to make the rainbows dance.
Rainbow Addition
Materials:
Paper
Pen
Construction paper
Directions:
Draw an outline of a rainbow on the paper.
Write addition combinations on the blank rainbow. (make sure they are spaced out quite a bit)
Cut the construction paper into rectangles small enough to cover one of the combinations.
Write the answers to the top row of combinations on the red rectangles.
Next row answers are on the orange rectangles. And so on.
Child will look at the combination and find the answer in the colored pieces and place it over the combination. At the end there should be a completed colored rainbow.
I modified the one for A. to counting dots on the white paper and finding the correct number on the colored pieces.
And I modified the tots to matching colors.
Eat the Rainbow
Discuss:
Talk about what different colors of the rainbow that we can eat to be healthy. Fruits and Vegies Then make a chart with the kids that have all of the foods that they suggested written on it.
Materials:
Posterboard
Markers of crayons
Strawberries
Cantaloupe
Banana
Pear
Blueberries
Red Grapes
Kabob Skewers
Directions:
Make a rainbow on a plate or platter with different fruits.
RED – Strawberries ORANGE – Cantaloupe YELLOW – Banana GREEN – Pear BLUE – Blueberries VIOLET – Red grapes
2. Let the children use the kabob sticks to make their rainbow fruit kabobs.
Read: I can eat a Rainbow by Annabel Karmel while they eat
Make a REAL Rainbow
Read: A Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman
Discuss: Rainbows appear wherever sunlight falls on water or glass. We used the Rainbow Diagram here to help us with this experiment.
Materials:
Glass of water
Dark kitchen
White Paper
Masking Tape
Flashlight
Directions:
Fill a glass of water (almost to the top) and place it at the very edge of the counter in a VERY dark kitchen or bathroom.
Place a sheet of plain white paper on the floor a few inches away from the counter.
Put two pieces of masking tape over the front of a flashlight so that the light comes out of a slit about 1/8 inch wide.
Shine this light across and down into the water as shown in the figure. When a narrow beam of light is passed through a glass of water, a spectrum can be seen on a white sheet of paper.
Can you see a small rainbow on the white paper? If not, move the flashlight around a little until you achieve the best results.
Rainbow Symmetry
Discuss: A line of symmetry divides a shape into two identical parts. In some cases, as with a rainbow, you’ll find one line of symmetry down the middle. In other cases, there is more than one, like with eight sections of an orange. So if we paint a rainbow on one side of the paper and then fold it in half it should appear the same on both sides forming a symmetrical rainbow.
Materials:
Cardstock folded in half
Paint for all the colors of the rainbow
Directions:
Fold the paper in half and open.
Have the kids how to paint half a rainbow on one half of the paper in the right order.
Fold the paper over and press gently.
Open again to see your rainbow print.
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Rainbow Celebration Cake
Cake Materials:
White cake (2 boxes)
9 in. cake pan
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple GEL food coloring.
Cake Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350F degrees. Spray 9” cake pans. Make the 2 cakes according to the directions.
Divide the batter into 6 bowls (about 1 1/2 cups each.
Then whisk 2 drops of the appropriate food color into each bowl. Pour into the pans and bake for 12 minutes each.
When you remove them from the oven, let them rest on the cooling rack, in the pan, for ten minutes. Then flip, cover, and stash them in the fridge to cool quickly.
Frosting Materials:
2 Cups shortening
2 teaspoons vanilla
½ cup water
2 lbs. Powdered sugar
Frosting Directions:
In large bowl, cream shortening with electric mixer. Add vanilla. Gradually add sugar, one cup at a time, beating well on medium speed. Scrape sides and bottom of bowl often. When all sugar has been mixed in, icing will appear dry. Add water and beat at medium speed until light and fluffy. Keep bowl covered with a damp cloth until ready to use.
This icing can be stored 2 weeks. rewhip before using.
IMG_0680I added sugar sprinkles in the shape of a rainbow to it too.
Just last week we saw a double rainbow and I actually got a picture of it with my phone, so we decided to make that day 4 in our rainbow unit study. We had a rainbow breakfast and lunch and did some more rainbow crafts, math, and science. The kids loved the mini fruit rainbow pizzas that we had for snack today.
Double Rainbows
Discuss: In a “primary rainbow”, the arc shows red on the outer part, and violet on the inside. This rainbow is caused by light being refracted while entering a droplet of water, then reflected inside on the back of the droplet and refracted again when leaving it. In a double rainbow, a second arc is seen outside the primary arc, and has the order of its colors reversed, red facing toward the other one, in both rainbows. This second rainbow is caused by light reflecting twice inside water droplets. The second arc is also lighter than the first one.
Read: All the Colors of the Rainbow by Allan Fowler
Comprehension Questions:
What is the order of the colors in a rainbow? Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple
What is the order of the colors in the double rainbow on the top? Purple, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red
Have the children draw a double rainbow (top rainbow lighter and in opposite order)
Rainbow Pancake Breakfast
Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
2 cups buttermilk
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
food coloring
Directions:
Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl.
Lightly beat the eggs with the buttermilk, milk and melted butter.
Just before you are ready to make the pancakes, add the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients all at once, stirring just long enough to blend. The batter should be slightly lumpy.
Separate the batter into 6 bowls and added food coloring to make the colors of the rainbow.
Heat a lightly greased griddle or heavy skillet over medium-high heat (375 degrees on an electric griddle).
Pour 1/4 cup batter per pancake onto the griddle or skillet, spacing the pancakes apart so they do not run together.
When bubbles appear on the surface of the pancakes and the undersides are lightly browned, turn and cook for about 2 minutes longer, until lightly browned on the bottom.
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Hand Print Rainbow
Materials:
Paint (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple)
Poster board
Directions:
Cut the poster board in the shape of a semi-circle.
Have the children put their purple hand prints along the bottom curve.
Then blue hand prints over the purple prints (it’s okay if it overlaps a bit)
Then green, yellow, orange, and red hand prints
Blow It Up
Discuss: Baking soda and the vinegar create an ACID-BASE reaction. When combined/mixed they create a gas – carbon dioxide. Gasses need room to spread out, so the carbon dioxide gas fills the bottle and then moves into the balloon inflating it. A gas can float in the air but we usually can’t see it.
Materials:
baking soda
vinegar
plastic bottle
6 balloons (one of each color)
funnels
Directions:
Using your funnel pour vinegar into your bottle. You only need to fill about 1/3 of the bottle.
Using another (dry) funnel pour baking soda into your balloon. Fill the balloon approx. 1/2 way.
Cover the top of the bottle with you balloon. Make sure you don’t let the baking soda spill into the bottle yet.
When ready, lift your balloon and let the baking soda fall into the vinegar.
Watch as the mixture fizzes, bubbles & expands your balloon!
Measure a Rainbow
Materials:
Construction Paper in colors of the rainbow
Scissors
Stapler
Directions:
1. Measure and cut the construction paper into 1” wide strips. Measure and cut each of the strips into the following lengths:
2. Stack all of the strips together in the rainbow order with red on top. Align and staple the aligned end together.
3. Bend and align the other end and staple to form a rainbow!! And that’s it…a fun rainbow with a little bit of measuring practice as a bonus!
Rainbow Spaghetti Lunch
Ingredients:
Spaghetti
Oil
Food Coloring
Tomatoes
Carrots
Croutons
Lettuce
Rasins
Shredded Cabbage
Directions:
Cook a small pot of spaghetti and drained it and tossed it in a couple of teaspoons of oil.
Divided it into 6 bowls and added a some liquid food coloring to each one, and stirred it through.
Serve with a salad make of RED – Tomatoes ORANGE – Carrots YELLOW – Croutons GREEN – Lettuce BLUE – Raisins VIOLET – Shredded Cabbage
Rainbow Wind Catcher
Materials:
paper plates
paint
glue sticks
a stapler
crepe paper
Directions:
cut paper plates in half.
paint a rainbow on the back sides, both halves.
after they were dry, use a glue stick to add the streamers.
cut the streamers in half long wise so they measure about 1in. X 10in.
in theory you would add the color of streamer under the color of paint.
glue streamers to the inside of both halves of the plates.
staple the two plates together.
tie a knot in a loop of yarn and then stapled it in when putting the plates together.
Crayon Melting Canvas
Discuss: Why does wax melt? Energy travels from the heated area to the wax, a solid. When the energy hits the wax molecules, it causes them to speed up, resulting in liquid. As the heat is removed, the wax molecules begin to slow down and heat the air around them. As the molecules lose energy they slowly stop moving as much and become a solid again.
Materials:
11×14 canvas
hot glue gun & glue stick
hair dryer
lots of crayons
newspaper
Discussion:
Pick out the colors you want to use and line them up until you run out of space.
Using a glue gun, make a line of glue across the crayons (if you want a certain part showing, like the label, be careful to put the glue on the opposite side). Quickly place onto canvas in a line, as shown below, with tips facing down.
Line your floor with newspaper, place the canvas against the wall, and start blow drying.
Aim the heat right at the middle to lower area of the crayons (where the tips are). Once the wax starts melting, move the dryer around as needed to prevent splattering and get wax to go straight down.
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Extension:
Kids can do individual crayon melting pictures on cardstock then cut off the crayons.
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Mini Fruit Pizzas
Ingredients:
3/4 cup butter, softened
3 ounces cream cheese
1 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 jar Marshmallow Cream
1 block cream cheese
Raspberries
Manderin Oranges (cut in halves)
Banana (sliced and cut in fourths)
Green Grapes (cut in halves)
Blueberries
Plums (sliced and cut in fourths)
Directions:
In a bowl cream butter, 3 ounces cream cheese and sugar until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; beat until smooth.
In a medium bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt. Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture. Stir till soft dough forms.
Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 2 hours.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
Bake cookies for 8 minutes or until lightly browned and let cool.
Mix 1 jar of marshmallow cream and 1 block of cream cheese for the kids to spread on the cookies.
Cut up the fruit for the kids to make a mini rainbow on their cookies.
For the third day of our Rainbow Unit Study we learned that the rainbow colors make up the artist’s color wheel. We learned about primary colors, secondary colors, and complementary colors. We did some color mixing science and made some more yummy rainbow snacks. I also introduced a fun sensory tub today.
The Color Wheel
Discuss:
Primary Color- Red, yellow and blue. Primary colors are the 3 colors that can not be mixed or formed by any combination of other colors. All other colors are made from these 3 hues.
Secondary Colors- Green, orange and purple. These are the colors formed by mixing the primary colors.
Complementary colors- are any two colors which are directly opposite each other on the color wheel, such as red and green and red-purple and yellow-green.
Read: Take a Walk on a Rainbow by Miriam Moss
Comprehension Questions:
What are the primary colors? Red, Yellow, Blue
What are the secondary colors? Green, Orange, Purple
How can you easily find complementary colors on the color wheel? The are opposite each other.
Painting A Color Wheel
I printed off this Color Wheel and let the children paint it with the colors in the correct order.
Color Mixing
Discuss: Ask your child if he has ever heard the word “hypothesis” before. Explain that “hypothesis” is a special word that scientists use for “an idea that you can test.” A hypothesis is a kind of prediction. Explain that when someone makes a hypothesis, he or she uses clues to make a guess about something. Give some examples, such as, “If I drop this basketball on the floor, my hypothesis is that it will bounce.” Or, “When I see dark clouds in the sky, I have a hypothesis that it will rain soon.” Encourage your child to come up with a simple hypothesis or two. How can we test your hypothesis?
Show a color wheel to look at and discuss. What are the primary colors (red, yellow, blue). Ask them what there hypothesis is about mixing red and yellow? It will make orange. What about yellow and blue? It will make green. What about red and blue? It will make purple.
Materials:
White ice cube tray
water
red, yellow, and blue food coloring
6 clear jars
Eye dropper
Directions:
Fill the ice cube tray with water.
Add 1 drop of one color to each section (make some red, yellow, and blue).
Put it in the freezer at least an hour before the activity.
Fill 6 clear cups with water. Add the red, yellow, and blue food coloring to the cups, one color per cup.
Do you think we can make all the colors of the rainbow with only these three primary colors.
Take out the ice cubes and let them know that they are the same 3 colors that are in the cups, the primary colors.
What do you think will happen if we put a red ice cube into a yellow cup?
Drop it in, then stir. Orange!
What do you think will happen if we added blue to yellow? Green!
Next try red and blue, which makes the purple.
Then the kids will want to see what would happen when we mixed all the colors and make brown.
Line up the colors in order and said.. We made all the colors of the rainbow!
Extension:
Use the red, yellow, and blue cup of colored water to play with.
Use the eye dropper to add the primary colors of water to each section in the ice tray to make new colors.
Let the kids try.
A Colorful Hypothesis
I used the Dinosaur Train A Colorful Hypothesis printout to help teach coloring mixing combinations to the children.
Rainbow Sprite
Ingredients:
Sprite
Kool-Aid (red, yellow, blue colors)
Ice cube tray
Directions:
Make the Kool-Aid according to package directions & then pour some of it into ice trays, a different ice tray for each color.
Add the color of ice cubes to a cup of Sprite. Watch the color the colors mix if you use two different colors of ice cubes.
Rainbow Rice Garden Sensory Tub
Materials:
Uncooked rice
Food coloring
Rubbing alcohol
Tub
Gardening tools
Fake flowers
Directions:
Measure out the rice (6 cups) and put it in a Ziploc bag with about 2 drops of food coloring and 2T of rubbing alcohol. (make red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple)
Mix the rice in the bags to spread the color. Put them on pans to dry in the sun.
Pour each color side by side in a sensory tub in the color of a rainbow.
Add garden tools and gardening gloves and the fake flowers.
Rainbow Cookies
Ingredients:
Sugar cookie dough
food coloring (all the colors of the rainbow)
Directions:
Divide dough into 6 portions. Tint each with a different food color (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple).
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
Roll dough into strips and form your rainbows but pushing the colors together.
Bake cookies for 8 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool and store in an airtight container.
Rainbow Collage
Materials:
Crayons
Cardstock
Felt
Paper
Feathers
Pom poms
Ribbon
Foam Pieces
Glue
Directions:
Have the children pre-color-sort collage supplies.
Draw and color a rainbow on a piece of cardstock.
The children color matched an assortment of stickers, felt, paper, feathers, pom poms, ribbon, and foam pieces onto the rainbow.
Today we learned why we have rainbows. We reviewed the story of Noah’s Ark focusing on the end where they have the promise from God to never destroy the earth again with a flood. We played with some Noah’s Ark toys and did some Noah’s Ark Crafts.. We also has some more yummy rainbows and did some more science experiments (the kids favorite).
God’s Promise
Discuss: Genesis 9:13 “I have placed my rainbow in the clouds. It is a sign of my covenant with you and all the earth.”
After a year of floating, the ark was finally on dry ground. Just a few minutes before, it was filled with growling, barking, honking, purring animals. Now the giant boat sat on a mountain top with the door wide open, the boat was all empty and quiet. All the animals had rushed out the door to fill the earth again. So what was Noah doing? He was gathering rocks. He was so thankful to be alive, he was building an altar to God. So Noah piled up the rocks to build a fire on them. This was the sacrifice Noah offered to God to thank him for saving him and his family. God was pleased with Noah’s sacrifice. But most of all, God was pleased that Noah was truly thankful. So God made a promise to Noah, “Never again will I destroy the world with a flood. I make this covenant with you and with all creatures. From this day on, there will always come a time for planting, and a time for gathering up what was planted. Day will always follow night, the warm days of summer will always follow the cold and snow of winter, as long as the earth shall be.” So God blessed Noah and his family. He told them to have many children to fill the earth with people again. He gave them the plants and the animals for food. Then God said to Noah, “Look up in the sky.” Noah looked up. The bright sun was shining, God made a brilliant rainbow appear. God said to Noah, “You see, I have set my rainbow in the sky. This will be the sign of the covenant I have made with you and all creatures, never again to destroy the earth by a flood. It will always remind us of the promise between you and me.” So, the next time you see a rainbow, you can think of Noah and the flood. Remember that God loves you, and that no matter how bad the storm, there will always come a bright new day. That is God’s promise, and God always keeps his promises.
Read:The First Rainbow By Su Box
Comprehension Questions:
How many animals did God send to Noah on the ark? Two of every animal. (boy and girl)
What did God send as a promise to Noah after they got off of the ark? (A rainbow)
Noah’s Rainbow
Materials:
2 paper plates
paint
paintbrushes
Animals and Noah (I used some that I had from a coloring book)
Scissors
Glue
Directions:
First, cut one of the paper plates in half and let your child paint one piece brown.
Paint a rainbow on the top 3/4 of the other plate.
Color all of the Noah animals and cut them out.
Once everything is dry, staple the brown plate to the rainbow plate so that the rainbow is showing.
Noah’s Ark Play
Discuss: God sent the animals to Noah’s ark 2 by 2 (a boy and a girl).
Directions:
Set up the Little People Ark and put Noah on it.
Line up the animals outside the ark 2 by 2.
Children can count by 2’s to see how many animals are on this ark.
Noah’s Ark ABC Puzzle
We have a wooden Noah’s Ark puzzle that lines the animals up in ABC order.
Rainbow Lorikeet
Discuss:
This is truly where a picture is better than a thousand words. There intense colors have patches of emerald green, orange midnight blue, dull blue, ruby red,lemon yellow, purple, violet greenish gray. They are a small bird generally 11 to 12 inches long, on average females are generally a bit smaller and younger birds have duller markings. They are said to live over 20 years in the wild. Their vocalization is varied from “screeching” in flight to “chatting” during feeding.
Rainbow Bible Verse
Read and talk about the verse with your child. Have the child draw a rainbow over the verse with crayons.
“I have placed my
rainbow in the clouds.
It is a sign of my covenant
with you and all the earth.”
Genesis 9:13
IMG_0Youngest child’s on the bottom up to the oldest child’s!539
Rainbow Jello
Ingredients:
Jello for each color of the rainbow
Knox gelatin (6 envelopes)
Jello mold or Clear cups
Directions:
Mix the purple jello with an envelope of the knox gelatin.
Pour in two cups of boiling water. Dissolve the gelatin.
Add 1/2 cup of ice. Stir until thick.
Remove any remaining ice cubes and any bubbles that may have formed.
Pour a little into each clear cup and/or mold. Let set in the refrigerator.
Repeat with the blue jello and pour it over the set purple (and then the other colors).
Changing Daisies
Discuss: As the colored water is absorbed, the children will be able to see how the water is absorbed into the plant and will be amazed when the petals of the carnation change color.
Materials:
Food Coloring (each color of the rainbow)
Water
6 Clear Glasses
6 White Daisies
Directions:
Place 1 tablespoon food coloring and quarter cup of water in each glass.
Place 1 stem of daisies in each glass and wait for a couple of hours.
