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    Home » Spring Activities

    How to Make a Cereal Rainbow Craft

    Modified: Mar 14, 2023 · Published: Feb 14, 2019 by Vicky · This post may contain affiliate links · 5 Comments

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    Kids will love to learn How to Make a Cereal Rainbow Craft! It is one of our favorite spring activities for kids. This adorable craft is perfect for spring or St. Patrick's Day. It is easy for kids to make and they will love the fact that they can snack while making it.

    My favorite thing about it is that it helps kids work on many important skills while having fun. So settle in, and learn with your child.

    How to make a cereal rainbow craft - This adorable craft is perfect for spring or St. Patrick's Day. It is easy for kids to make and they can practice their fine motor skills while working on it.

    Please supervise your kids while doing any craft or activity.

    Jump to:
    • Why this St Patrick's Day Craft is awesome
    • Supplies
    • How to Make a Cereal Rainbow Craft
    • 🍀Saint Patrick's Day Worksheets
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    Why this St Patrick's Day Craft is awesome

    • Uses supplies you already have at home
    • Kids can snack while making it
    • Helps with fine motor skills, like our Spring Fine Motor Activities For Preschoolers

    Supplies

    • Paper plate
    • Scissors
    • Round fruit cereal
    • Mini marshmallows
    • Blue crayon  - I really like the vibrant blue in this oil pastel set, but any blue crayon will work.
    • White glue
    supplies to make a cereal rainbow

    How to Make a Cereal Rainbow Craft

    Kids can learn many valuable skills while making this craft project. They can practice color sorting and counting as they prepare the cereal. Then their fine motor skills get a workout as they squeeze a glue bottle and pick up and place each piece of cereal onto the plate.

    cereal rainbow craft

    The base of this craft will be a paper plate that you have cut in half. The paper plate is sturdy and the arch shape of half a plate makes it perfect for a rainbow.

    paper plate cut in half, fruit loops and marshmallows

    The colors of cereal you have will depend on the type of cereal you are using. Some brands of round cereal have different colors than others. Let your child choose 5 colors of cereal and have them sort the cereal into piles according to color.

    fruit loops

    Have your child use the blue crayon to color the bottom half of the paper plate blue.

    paper plate colored blue

    Starting at the outer edge of the paper plate, glue one color of cereal along the arc of the plate. Leave space on each end for the marshmallow clouds.

    how to make a cereal rainbow craft

    Repeat this process with each color of cereal.

    making a cereal rainbow craft

    Your child can glue each piece of cereal individually, or squeeze a bunch of glue onto each row and then add the cereal.

    How to Make a Cereal Rainbow Craft

    Continue to leave space on the ends for the mini marshmallows.

    making a cereal rainbow craft

    When your child has glued on all the colors of cereal, have them glue some mini marshmallows at each end of the plate as puffy clouds.

    How to Make a Cereal Rainbow Craft

         

    You can glue a ribbon to the back of the cereal rainbow to hang it up.

    How to Make a Cereal Rainbow Craft

    This craft is sure to please little ones as it is the perfect way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day and spring.

    How to Make a Cereal Rainbow Craft

    🍀Saint Patrick's Day Worksheets

    Enjoy St. Patrick's Day with these fun and educational Printable Fine Motor Worksheets! These sheets are perfect for young kids, who will have fun while strengthening their fine motor skills.

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    1. julie says

      February 18, 2019 at 5:54 am

      My kids would have loved this when they were little

      Reply
    2. Tami says

      February 15, 2019 at 11:36 am

      We are working our way through the Bible in our homeschool curriculum. We will enjoy doing this during the flood story. My kiddo loves this cereal, so you know we will be eating while we learn.

      Reply
    3. Megan says

      February 15, 2019 at 7:27 am

      Oh my god. This is such a cute idea! I'm going to send this to my sister!

      Reply
    4. Ayanna says

      February 14, 2019 at 12:02 pm

      This is such a cute craft and perfect for a winter break activity.

      Reply
    5. Julie Hood says

      February 14, 2019 at 12:41 pm

      That's so fun!!! I haven't done many crafts with my 3-year-old, and this would be a good one to start with since he'd have to work on the motor skills of picking up/gluing down the cereal!

      Reply
    Vicky from Mess for Less

    I'm Vicky, the founder of Mess For Less, which I started in 2011 to share easy, family-friendly recipes. With over a decade of experience as a home chef and recipe developer, I love creating meals that bring people together. I also design play and learning activities for kids, using my background as a former teacher with a Master’s degree in education. Learn more about me.

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