How to Make a Paper Rainbow Mosaic

Total Time: 10-20 minutes per

Yield: 1+

Supplies:

• 1 sheet of white or light blue construction paper
• liquid school glue
• scissors
• 3/4 to 1-inch squares of colored construction paper (rainbow colors)

Steps:

1. To create a 'normal' rainbow, draw a curved glue line on your paper. Start adding red squares to the line.

 
2. Finish adding red squares to the first line of glue. Draw another line below the first.

 
3. Add orange squares along the second line.

 
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4. Continue adding glue lines and the next rainbow color until you feel the rainbow is complete.

 
5. Here is an example of a color explosion rainbow. A couple kids in my class did something similar to this.

 
6. Here are two more examples of how I've seen kids represent rainbows. According to a student I had, the blue line in the second photo serves as clouds.