Rainbow planning!

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My theme this last couple of weeks has been colours of the rainbow - for no particular reason other than it offered some nice sensory play and other ideas, so for those that follow regularly and like the links, we have been playing with the rainbow stacker:

and exploring some rainbow rice; labour of love to set up, and just seconds to mix together!!

 

There were feet as well as hands in this - it is so lovely to play with, just falling through your fingers!

Instructions to be found here.

I also laminated a rainbow array of paint chip cards and bound them with a book ring,

and we coloured some rainbow pictures to go on the cupboard door.

We loved the book 'What Makes a Rainbow?'

This book is lovely too!

Rainbow Crayons!

From This............ to this!

I had the idea for these from here, but knew that making them as individual colours would bore the children and be messy and time-consuming, not to mention a bit dangerous with molten wax sloshing round! So I tweaked the idea a little bit and here is how to do it:

1. Collect together old and broken wax crayons (or buy a big box from the pound shop!!)
2. Let the children peel the paper off them (normally forbidden!!!!)
3. Snap them into lots of little pieces (also normally forbidden!!)
4. Get out an old bun tin and wipe round the indents with a kitchen tissue with a tiny amount of oil on.
5. Share the broken crayons out amongst the indents, trying to get a good mix of colours in each one.
6. Pop the tray into an oven at 150 degrees C.
7. Keep a close eye..... the crayons take only minutes to melt.
8. Once melted take them out and put on a heat proof level surface to cool and set.
9. Once the tray is cool, further harden them in the fridge.
10. Turn the tin over on a table and pop them out.
11. Watch the children's amazed faces!!

They look a bit grim from the top whilst they are in the bun tin, as the colours mix into a browny film, but underneath they are magical!!!!

Friday's Favourites!

This week's favourites come along with a sigh of relief after passing (I think!) my practical exam on the Montessori curriculum today!  I have discovered three new blogs this week and the rainbow theme omes from them..... gorgeous and inspirational and turning my thoughts towards march planning!

First up is upcycled crayons from 'i make stuff' (see the sidebar for the new blog links)

Then there is rainbow rice from 'pink and green mama'

And finally the thought of 500 coloured pencils from 'The violet hours'.

I'm loving the colours!

Have a good weekend!