I love to see rainbows in the sky. In fact, they remind me of my dad. My parents live in New Zealand and I really miss them. Last year when my mum and dad were visiting me here in the UK we went on a trip to celebrate my uncle's 40th birthday. He's not much older than me.

Anyway, on our way home, we turned a corner and I saw the most beautiful rainbow I've ever seen in my life. It was as if it was right there in front of us and the were touching the ground.

The rainbow was stunning and every time I see one now I remember the good times with my parents. Today we have a fun and exciting cotton ball rainbow craft for kids. I am sure you will love this. Enjoy.

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Why You'll Love This Craft
What You Will Need for Your Rainbow Craft
🖌️ How To Make This Simple Rainbow Craft
Hanging Cotton Ball Rainbow Craft
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Why You'll Love This Craft

Colorful & Fun: Kids will love creating their own vibrant rainbow, adding a burst of color to any room with cotton balls and bright hues.
Helps with Fine Motor Skills: Threading cotton balls onto strings and arranging them in a rainbow pattern helps enhance kids' fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
Decorative & Rewarding: Once the rainbow is complete, kids can proudly hang their artwork as a cheerful decoration that they made themselves.

What You Will Need for Your Rainbow Craft

🖌️ How To Make This Simple Rainbow Craft

Step 1: Use metal snips to clip the bottom off of a white metal hanger. You just want to leave the hanging part at the top, with a small section of wire on either side to use as support for your rainbow later on.

Step 2: Draw a rainbow shape on a piece of cardstock. Make it as big as you like, but make sure that it is big enough so that your wire hanger does not stick out from behind it.

Step 3: Cut out the rainbow shape.

Step 4: Cover the front of the rainbow cardstock shape with a layer of white school glue.

Step 5: Press cotton balls onto the front of the piece of cardstock to cover the glue. There should be four cotton balls in each row. Let the cotton ball rainbow sit and dry once you have layered them all on.

Step 6: Once the glue had dried, use a paintbrush to paint the cotton balls in each row a different colour. Use the colours yellow, green, red and blue.

Step 7: When the paint has dried, glue the piece of cut hanger to the back of your rainbow so that the hanger part sticks up above the centre of the rainbow.

Step 8: Cut pieces of red, yellow, green and blue ribbon.

Step 9: You will need two pieces of ribbon of each colour.

Step 10: Glue one ribbon of each colour to the back of the cotton ball rainbow, below its coordinating colour of cotton balls. Now you're done. Hang your cotton ball ribbon rainbow and enjoy!

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Hanging Cotton Ball Rainbow Craft

This is a tutorial on how to make a hanging cotton ball rainbow craft

Prep Time5

Active Time10

Total Time15

Course: Easy Kids Crafts

Keyword: summer craft and hanging cotton ball

Calories:

Author: Angela Milnes

Equipment

Scissors
Hot glue gun

Materials

White metal hanger
Wire Snips
Cardstock
Cotton Balls
Red yellow, green and blue paint
Paintbrush
White school glue
Pencil
Red yellow, green and blue ribbon

Instructions

Use metal snips to clip the bottom off of a white metal hanger.
You just want to leave the hanging part at the top, with a small section of wire on either side to use as support for your rainbow later on.
Draw a rainbow shape on a piece of cardstock.
Make it as big as you like, but make sure that it is big enough so that your wire hanger does not stick out from behind it.
Cut out the rainbow shape.
Cover the front of the rainbow cardstock shape with a layer of white school glue.
Press cotton balls onto the front of the piece of cardstock to cover the glue.
There should be four cotton balls in each row.
Let the cotton ball rainbow sit and dry once you have layered them all on.
Once the glue had dried, use a paintbrush to paint the cotton balls in each row a different colour.
Use the colours yellow, green, red and blue.
When the paint has dried, glue the piece of cut hanger to the back of your rainbow so that the hanger part sticks up above the centre of the rainbow.
Cut pieces of red, yellow, green and blue ribbon.
You will need two pieces of ribbon of each colour.
Glue one ribbon of each colour to the back of the cotton ball rainbow, below its coordinating colour of cotton balls.
Now you’re done. Hang your cotton ball ribbon rainbow and enjoy!