50+ Rainbow Activities and Snacks
We love rainbows anytime of the year, so any excuse to make a giant post of rainbow activities and crafts is more than welcome!
Here you will find over 50 ideas for rainbow snacks, rainbow crafts, rainbow science, rainbow literacy, rainbow sensory play, and DIY rainbow ideas for grown-ups!
Let’s start things off with some sensory play.
10 Rainbow Sensory Play Ideas
From left to right, top to bottom:
- Rainbow Fruit Loop Towers from Mess for Less
- Rainbow Clean Mud from Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails
- Toddler Rainbow Sensory Bin from our St. Patrick’s Day Shelves last year
- Rainbow Rain Stick from Little Wonders Days
- Edible Water Beads from Kids Play Box
- Rainbow Slime to teach your kids the order of the rainbow
- Scented Homemade Edible Paint from Fun at Home with Kids
- Rainbow Barley Bin
- Rainbow Invitation to Play from Learning2Walk
- 7 Ways to Play with Froot Loops – including an Edible Rainbow Sensory Bin
- BONUS: Easy Rainbow Rice & Letter R Sensory Bin from Natural Beach Living
10 Rainbow Science Experiments
From left to right, top to bottom:
- Milk & Dish Soap Experiment
- Rainbow Crystal Growing Science Experiment from Little Bins for Little Hands
- Rainbow Eruptions from Learn Play Imagine
- Rainbow Bird Feeders from Buggy and Buddy
- Skittles Rainbow from Playdough to Plato
- Rainbow Paper Science from Science Kiddo
- Rainbow Density Jar from Playdough to Plato
- Making Rainbow Reflections from Buggy and Buddy
- Rainbow Bubbles from Science Sparks
- Prism Refracting Tray from our St. Patrick’s Day Shelves last year
- BONUS: Colour Mixing Montessori Lesson from Montessori Bloggers Network
- BONUS: Rainbow Color Mixing Lab
5 Rainbow Painting Activities (Open-ended and Process-based!)
Left to right, top to bottom:
- Rainbow Pour Painting on Terra Cotta Pots from Dilly Dali Art
- Compass Painting from Housing a Forest
- Sponge Art Paint Rainbow from Hands on As We Grow
- Rorschach paintings from our 10 Mix It Up! Activities and /f/ is for fire unit
- Black Glue and Salt Rainbow Paintings from Mess For Less
We’ve since added 10 more Rainbow Art Projects here – including our Rainbow Paper Plate Loom.
5 Mixed-Media Rainbow Crafts
From left to right, top to bottom:
- Giant Rainbow Collage from The Imagination Tree
- Ice Rainbow Sun Catchers from Twig And Toadstool
- Rainbow Mosaic from Kids Activities Blog
- Froot Loops Pointillism from our 7 Ways to Play with Froot Loops post
- Paper Plate Rainbow from Housing a Forest
- BONUS: Ribbon Plate Craft from The Natural Homeschool
- BONUS: Rainbow Fish Scratch Art
10 Rainbow Language Activities
From left to right, top to bottom:
- Rainbow Salt Tray from Nurturestore
- Rainbow Spaghetti Messy Play from the Imagination Tree
- “R” letter craft from No Time for Flashcards
- A Paper Chain of Kindness
- Rainbow Roll Game from Nurturestore
- Rainbow Rice Uppercase & Lowercase Matching from Learning 2 Walk
- Rainbow Name Puzzles for Kids from Still Playing School
- Teach Grammar Using Sentence-Building Rainbows from Arts and Crackers
- DIY Rainbow Rice I Spy Game from You Clever Monkey
- Crossing the Rainbow Bridge birthday story
- BONUS: Learning Colour Names in 7 Languages Printables from The Natural Homeschool
- BONUS: Reading Rainbow Fort from Mama’s Happy Hive
6 Healthy Rainbow Snacks
* Yes, some of these contain food colouring – please keep in mind that natural food colouring exists and not all countries allow the same chemicals in their food colouring 🙂
From left to right, top to bottom:
- Rainbow Water from Happy Hooligans
- Rainbow Pasta Lunch from Benton Better Lunches
- Rainbow Fruit Pizza from Little Wonders Days
- Rainbow Fruit Plate from the Iowa Farmer’s Wife
- Rainbow Bread from Two Times Twelve
- Weather Themed Lunch from Benton Better Lunches
- BONUS: Rainbow Fruit Smoothies
We’ve since made Fresh Rainbow Salsa and a Healthy Rainbow Spaghetti.
5 Fun Rainbow Desserts
From left to right, top to bottom:
- Rainbow Jell-o from Mess for Less
- Rainbow Birthday Cake from Meaningful Mama
- Baking Rainbow Cookies from Kitchen Counter Chronicles
- Rainbow Swirl Cookies from B-inspired Mama
- Surprise Rainbow Sugar Cookies from Erica’s Sweet
- BONUS: Over the Rainbow Cupcakes
10 Rainbow DIYs for Grown-ups
From left to right, and top to bottom:
- Mini Rainbow Pallet from Adventures of Goldilox
- Be A Cloud Printable
- Retractable Bath Crayons from De Tout et De Rien
- Rainbow Sand Blocks from Adventure in a Box
- Rainbow Grimm-style Wooden Blocks from Fun at Home With Kids
- Rainbow Onesie from Moms and Crafters
- Acrylic Painting Rainbow from Two-daloo
- Waldorf Hand Kite
- Montessori Colour Tablets
All of this rainbow fun should keep you busy for awhile!
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Great ideas!
Thanks, Pamela!
Wow! What an incredible resource for rainbow activities! Thanks for putting this collection of colors together. 🙂
Thank you, Vanessa!
never spent so long entering a comp, wow!
thanks for linking to #singleparentlinky
Sorry about that – sounds like you filled out a few of the entries 😉 Good luck!
You just can’t help but smile looking through this post! What a great collection of rainbow ideas. 🙂
Thank you, Marie!
Some great ideas. Thank you for finding them all.
Thanks, Emily!