🌈 Yarn Wrapped Rainbow Craft for Kids

This yarn rainbow craft is such a beautiful and simple project for kids to make in the spring and summer. These easy yarn wrapped rainbow uses a simple technique to produce stunning crafts for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and grade 1 students. Use this as a yarn crafts for kids along with a rainbow theme, st patricks day craft, or springtime project.

Yarn rainbow craft

Looking for a fun and creative spring or summer project for your little ones? Look no further! This rainbow craft is not only beautiful but also incredibly simple, making it perfect for kids of all ages. Make this yarn rainbow craft with preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and even grade 1 students!

Using just a few materials like colorful yarn, cardboard, and some basic crafting tools, this enchanting project showcases an easy yarn-wrapping technique that lets kids express their creativity and fine-tune their motor skills in a delightful way.

Find more rainbow activity ideas here including rainbow capillary action experiment and free rainbow worksheets.

yarn wrapped rainbow

All you need to make this beautiful rainbow art project are a few simple materials you probably already have at home:

cardboard (leftover from a box, cereal box, back of construction paper pad, etc.)
red yarn
orange yarn
yellow yarn
green yarn
blue yarn
purple yarn
scissors
glue
crayons (optional, but helpful for yonger children)

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Start off by cutting your cardboard piece into a a rainbow arch. I love this spring art and craft activities for toddlers recycles something we have laying around the house!

rainbow yarn craft

This part is optional, but super helpful if you have a young child and are creating a rainbow craft for preschoolers. Use crayons to mark the spaces along the rainbow (either simple start/stop lines in each color or color the entire section) so your kid knows where the red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple should begin and end. If not young kids tend to forget and keep going with whatever color they have. But then again, that is part of the charm and makes a unique rainbow craft.

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Tape the end of red yarn to the back of the piece of cardboard to secure into place.

Rainbow craft

Wrap the yarn around and around to fill the entire section. Try not to let any of the cardboard show and keep the yarn as tight and close together as you can. When you finish a section, simply cut it off the yarn ball and use tape to secure it to the back of the project. Then start with the next color, again affixing the end of yarn to the back with tape and wrap until you completed the next section.

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.Continue until you’ve wrapped the entire arch with colorful yarn. and tape or tuck in the end. Now you have a beautiful rainbow, but we aren’t done yet!

yarn craft for kids

To make your pretty spring rainow look like it is coming out of the clouds, we are going to use liquid school glue to attach 3 cotton balls to the end of each side of the rainbow.

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Now you have a pretty cloud and rainbow craft. If you prefer, you can make one side of the rainbow have a black pot of gold with gold coins inside. That would be a fun option to make it really themed for a st patricks day activity for preschoolers.

rainbow craft for kindergarten

This is such a pretty rainbow craft project for kids of all ages! We love how easy it is so kids can really make a rainbow craft all by themselves. Use it to decorate your windows, refrigerator door, bedroom doors, mirrors, front door instead of a wreath, or in your classroom.