rainbows Archives - JDaniel4s Mom

Earlier this week I shared a printable roll and cover rainbow themed activity that focused on color recognition and fine motor skills. I thought it would be fun to end the week with another rainbow themed activity. This one focuses on teaching numbers to your child.

We used this teaching numbers set in a muffin tin. Muffin tins hold the counters and keep them from spreading from one number onto another.mYou could just place the number circles on a workspace or table if you like.

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Plastic Gold Coins are fun counters for this activity. If you have something else you would like to use, like beans or pom poms that would be fun too.

Teaching Numbers Activity

Roll and Show

You can have your children roll a die of a set of dice. Then they can place that number of counters into the cup that displays that number.

Count and Place

Your children can start by placing one gold coin in the muffin cup that has the number one in it. They can continue by adding the correct number of coins into each of the muffin cups.

Call and Find

You can call out a random number between 1 and 10. Then your child could place a gold coin on top of that number. You can continue to call out numbers until all of the numbers are covered.

More Muffin Tin Number Sets

I have created a number of muffin tin numbers sets. Each of the sets has a fun theme and recommended counter.

Moon and Star Muffin Tin Number Set

Skip Counting Muffin Tin Set with a Leaf Theme

Apple Basket Muffin Tin Numbers

You will find a number of other math activities for early learners on my Early Learning- Math board on Pinterest. I hope you will take a moment to check it out.

Somewhere over, under, and on rainbow children can explore learning concepts. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet arranged in arcs just seem perfect for activities and games. I have shared a number of rainbow learning activities. Several other blogs have shared amazing ways of making learning fun with rainbows too. I thought I would shared twelve activities for kids. They cover a wide variety of concepts. They are all hands on and most importantly they all look like fun.

I hope you will take a few moments to explore each of them. If you find some that you really love, please take a moment to leave them a comment or to pin them to your Pinterest boards. I have already pinned all of them to my Early Learning board.

Making Learning Fun Activities

The Measured Mom Sight Word Learning Game

This game works on color words. After kids have read a color word card, they move a space a rainbow path on a game board. I really love this free printable game!

Rainbow Letter Sound Game from Mom Inspired Life

Children roll a die to find out how many colored circles featuring various alphabet letters they may walk on. They have to share the letter they landed on.

Magazine Color Search to Craft a Rainbow

This one of my making learning fun with rainbows activities. Children search through magazines for many of the colors of the rainbow. They arrange magazine cutouts in those colors on the correct arc to create a rainbow.

Rainbow Sight Word Painting from True Aim

Various colors of the rainbow watercolors can be painted over sight words written with crayon. You really need to see this activity. It looks like so much fun.

Rainbow Lacing Busy Bag from Coffee Cups and Crayons

This is an awesome fine motor busy bag activity. Children will love weaving various rainbow colors to create beautiful rainbows.

Learning 4 Kids

A rainbow salt tray like the one shared in a post by Learning 4 Kids would be great for working on letter and number writing. It would also be wonderful for just exploring fine motor skills.

Fine Motor Gold Coin Jumping a Rainbow Game

This game is a lot like Tiddly Winks. Children try to leap gold coins from circle with various colored sections into a pot of gold.

Rainbow File Folder Game

This open ended game board could be used to review sight words, math facts or science questions. Any subject could be reviewed as children travel up a rainbow path to get to the pot of gold.

Creating a Rainbow By Measuring from Gift of Curiosity

Children get to review their measurement skills as they create arcs for a rainbow. You will love the printables that she has created for kids to use for this activity.

Magnetic Letter Rainbow from Fantastic Fun and Learning

Magnetic Letters and metal tray are an invitation to making learning fun. Children are invited to complete the rainbow started with a single row of colored letters.

{Printable} Writing Sight Words on a Rainbow

This is a set free printables I created for my son to use to practice writing his sight words. Children write and rewrite their sight words across one of the rainbow’s arcs.

Rainbow Retelling Bracelet from Reading Book By Book

Each bead on this rainbow bracelet invites a child to share a different aspect of a story. What a wonderful retelling activity!

If you make any of these ideas for making learning fun, please leave me a comment below telling me about it or share a picture of it on my Facebook page.