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We end up with a number of magazines. JDaniel gets two in the mail. I get two in the mail. We get some from my mother in law. Seeing that the magazine pile was getting a little bit tall I decided it was time to do a craft with them. ( We have done a number of crafts with recycled materials.) It would be fun I decided to search for rainbow colors in magazines and then gluing them in arcs of color. It would one of those crafts for kids that explores a number of skills and upcycle.

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I took out a5 Compartment Round Plastic Serving Tray. I didn’t have a tray that held all the colors of the rainbow. We decided we would search the magazines for just the first five colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green and blue). When we found a swatch of one those colors in a picture that was big enough to cut out, we did just.

We found that the magazines that featured recipe and food tended big pictures that contained the colors we were looking for. JDaniel’s kids magazines tended to have much smaller pictures. Thank goodness we had mine magazines to look through.

Hint: If you don’t have time for your children to cut out the color squares from magazines, you could do it in advance. You could also ask friends or family members to search their magazines and send you the pictures. They may like to help with crafts for kids.

The pictures were cut into small square like shapes. We both tried to cut nice squares with straight edges, but all the edges didn’t end up straight.

When we thought we had enough of each color, we were ready to start the rainbow collage. The square like sections of each color were glued on the a crayon draw rainbow that displayed the five colors we had searched for.

We found it easier to glue all the squares of one color down at one time and then move on to another color. You could glue them down any way your like. You may find that your children each approach gluing the colors down differently.

When all the arcs are covered with color squares from magazines, we were done. You may decide to add white construction paper cumulus cloud to either end of the rainbow. A pot of gold could be added too.

Here are some other St. Patrick’s Day activities for kids:

{Printable} Roll and Color St. Patrick’s Day Pages

Creating a Snack with Leprechaun Magic Dust

Creating a Rainbow Place Mat

Here are some other crafts for kids that have a St. Patrick’s Day theme:

Simple Sticker Rainbow

Five Little Hand Print Shamrocks Song and Craft

If you do try any of the above activities or holiday crafts for kids, please leave me a comment below telling me about it or share a picture of it on my Facebook page

Welcome to Read.Explore.Learn.! This meme was designed to be a place for you to share the learning opportunities, crafts, field trips, and other activities you have done this week that tie-in to children’s books. I look forward to seeing ways you have learned with and explored books.

My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:

Roslyn in Roslyn Rutabaga and the Biggest Hole on Earth by Marie- Louise Gay loves to dig. One day she decides to dig a hole all the way to the South Pole to see the penguins.

I love what her father tells her when she announces that she is going to dig that far. He tells her to remember to bring a sweater because it is cold down there. He is such a great dad.

Once she tries to decide she is going to dig, she has to decide where to start digging. She can’t dig in her dad’s carrot patch and she finds she can’t dig where other animals have their burrows.

When we finally find a spot, she digs and digs. She would probably keep digging past lunch if her dad didn’t bring her a carrot sandwich.

There is a wonderful surprise at the end of this book. I hope you will seek out this book and find out what it is.

What did we do to extend concepts from this book?

Created a Sand Tunnel

We took a wrapping paper tube to a local playground’s sand table to create a tunnel for some of JDaniel’s cars.

Roslyn Rutabaga and the Biggest Hole on Earth- Building a Sand Tunnel in a Sandbox

It was a lot of fun covering the tube with sand and packing the sand down around it.

The cars tended to get stuck half way through the tube. JDaniel discovered that if he stuck the handle of the shovel behind a second car and shoved it into the tube both cars came out of the tube.

Practiced Cutting on Odd Shaped Lines

A couple of sections of newspaper stacked together and painted brown added depth to mom drawn lines once JDaniel had cut them out. I tried to draw a variety of lines to give JDaniel more experience in cutting different types of lines.