My 3 year old and I made a paper chain rainbow craft for St. Patrick’s Day. This was an easy craft, but was a great opportunity for my child and I to work on color identification and rainbow color order together. We had a lot of fun making this and hope you will too!
Supplies Needed:
- construction paper in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and black
- scissors
- glue
- ribbon
If you don’t have construction paper, I also made this craft with older kids by painting white paper. Once our paint dried, we cut out our strips to make our chain.
How To:
Cut out a 2 inch x 9 inch strip of paper from each color, except black. Using the black paper, I cut out a pot shape to hold our “gold” coins. I cut a thin strip of black to be able to attach our pot to the chain.
Make your chain: Begin with red. Fold your red piece into a circle and glue the ends together. Next, take your orange piece and stick it through your red circle. Glue the orange ends together forming an orange circle. Now it is yellow’s turn. Take your yellow paper and slip it through the orange circle. Glue the ends of the yellow strip into a circle around the orange, forming your third chain link. Repeat this process with green, blue, and purple. My child saw that we had both light blue and dark blue colored paper and wanted a chain link of each color, so ours has an extra blue. We can just pretend this is our indigo!
Pot of gold: I cut a pot (cauldron) shape out of black construction paper. Then I traced a coin and cut out several yellow circles to be our gold. My son glued the gold onto the pot. To attach the pot to our last chain, I cut a skinny strip of black and made a chain around the purple paper. Then we glued the pot onto the strip. Add a ribbon to the top chain if you would like to hang your craft.
I love how our paper chain rainbow craft turned out! My 3 year old I enjoyed making this together and now we have a cute decoration to put up every St. Patrick’s Day. We also made a tissue paper rainbow craft together too 🙂
