Painting Rainbows With Cork for Preschoolers

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Painting Rainbows With Cork For Preschoolers

Do you love painting rainbows? As an early years teacher, I really enjoyed rainbow painting with preschool kids. It was always so fun. We often painted and sang at the same time.

Whenever we painted rainbows or used lots of different colours we would sing the rainbow song.

I lived in New Zealand where the native language is Maori and we would sing and learn both the colours in English and in the Te Reo Maori language. Teaching in two languages was so much fun.

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Today we have a fun and simple rainbow colours painting craft which comes as a free printable download. This preschool craft uses a wine cork and is super fun, quick and easy for young children to paint. Enjoy. Check out this fantastic article for more dot marker activities!

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How to Paint a Rainbow With Cork

Have your child dip a wine cork into their choice of colours and press it down into the lines on the rainbow colouring sheet.

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Alternate colours, or make each line of the rainbow a single colour as you paint complete this rainbow painting project. 

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Once you have finished with one colour, you can wash the wine cork and begin with your next rainbow colour. You could also use a number of corks if you can have a few wine corks on hand.

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Rainbow Painting as a Teaching Opportunity

Painting rainbows can be a great learning opportunity for children and completing this rainbow art is the perfect time to help your child learn their colours.

Why not have your kids repeat the name of each colour as they make a new circle on their rainbow worksheet. You might also like to sing the Rainbow song as I used to.

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Each time your child dips the wine cork into the coloured paint, they can dab it on a piece of paper towel before pressing it onto their colouring sheet to get off some excess paint.

This is not a required step, but a helpful tip so that your rainbow sheet will dry more quickly.

Enjoy.

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Why not download this free R is for Rainbow Printable! 

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Painting Rainbows With Cork For Preschoolers

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This is a tutorial on how to make painting rainbows with cork.

Prep Time 5 minutes
Active Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Difficulty Easy

Materials

  • Wine cork
  • Craft paint in rainbow colours
  • Rainbow colouring sheet printable
  • Paper towels (optional)

Instructions

    Have your child dip a wine cork into their choice of colours and press it down into the lines on the rainbow colouring sheet.

    Alternate colours, or make each line of the rainbow a single colour as you paint complete this rainbow painting project. 

    Once you have finished with one colour, you can wash the wine cork and begin with your next rainbow colour. You could also use a number of corks if you can have a few wine corks on hand.

    Painting rainbows can be a great learning opportunity for children and completing this rainbow art is the perfect time to help your child learn their colours.

    Why not have your kids repeat the name of each colour as they make a new circle on their rainbow worksheet. You might also like to sing the Rainbow song as I used to.

    Each time your child dips the wine cork into the coloured paint, they can dab it on a piece of paper towel before pressing it onto their colouring sheet to get off some excess paint.

    This is not a required step, but a helpful tip so that your rainbow sheet will dry more quickly.

    Enjoy.

You may also enjoy the following educational craft ideas for preschool kids

Chinese New Year Dragon Craft

Bumble Bee Wine Cork Craft

Preschool Fire Truck Handprint Art

Rainbow Dinosaur Craft

Hanging Cotton Ball Rainbow Craft

Rainbow Glitter Pots Craft Idea

Rainbow Sensory Jar Craft

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Angela Milnes is a Qualified Early Years Teacher who has specialised in Preschool and Kindergarten teaching. She has a wealth of experience teaching young children and is passionate about kids crafts and having fun as a family. Angela has also taught cooking skills and loves to share both family recipes and easy crafts here on The Inspiration Edit. Follow her on Pinterest!

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