diy fine motor rainbows

 I know. Making a froot loop necklace in preschool is hardly revolutionary or original but it does have its moments. Tasty, sugary moments of course. I set this up as a side project to our rainbow study so that the children could work those fine motor skills and practice their color recognition.

 While the children were playing in the classroom, I hopped on over to our kitchen/craft area and set up. Each kiddo got a white tray (I love these trays), one of our small colored bowls full of froot loops, and a length of yarn that matched the bowl (I tied a loop of cereal to the end of each length of yarn to act as an anchor to keep the other loops from slipping off). The children got to choose where they sat and needed no introduction other than affirmation that it was okay to eat the cereal.

We talked about the colors in our bowls, what colors we would use in a rainbow and what colors we were using in our rainbows. All of the children decided to take their necklaces home rather than eat them up. It was a lot of fun to see their delight and wonder and to hear their discussion as they laced away.

making rainbows

Happy St. Patrick's day!

If you did find yourself making them fruity fun-fetti cakes, you may find yourself with left over froot loopys. Grab yourself a muffin tin and set your kiddo to sorting. One muffin tin has six cubbies which is perfect for sorting out all those rainbow colors.Once your tot is done sorting, grab some yarn, a small piece of tape and apair of scissors and string up some sweet rainbow necklaces. The tape is to keep the tip of the yarn stiff for easy threading.

If you have an old CandyLand game, you can utilize those game cards and have your kidlet string up a pattern based on the cards they pull. One yellow square? One yellow loop goes onto their string, etc.There are all sorts of ways to play with these loops, pull out all the green ones and make a St. Patrick's day picture or necklace. Mash 'em all up and collage with the pieces. Bake them into blondies or make more cupcakes. Whatever you decide, have fun and show me the pics!