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Paper plate rainbow spirals



Our primary school kid is getting daily tasks sent to her online from her teacher. One of yesterday's tasks was to make a rainbow to stick in one of our windows. Lots of kids all over the country have been doing it in an attempt to cheer up passers by. I've seen some fantastic drawings as well as a beautiful version where people have cut out lots of hearts in the different colours of the rainbow and then stuck them up in arches in their windows. I decided we should try something a little different as well. We had already done an activity with paper plates earlier in the day (we'd made colour wheels that spun to show white while discussing primary and secondary colours) so it's hardly surprising that my inspiration took me back in that direction again.


I got the kids to colour in both sides of 8 plates (pink, red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue & purple).




Then I drew spirals on them to make it easier for them to cut the right shape.



 

I punched holes in the centre of the spirals.




My original idea had been to just string them up in a line along the curtain rail in the play room. But then I remembered that I had an old laundry underwear hanger that had lost its crocodile clips, it conveniently has 8 arms. So I hung the spirals up in that which made it easier to then hook onto the curtain rail.




The girls love it, it would look better if you painted the colours on or made sure they were filled in properly but it was a good effort from a 3 & 6 year old.



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