Lucky Rainbow Necklace Craft:Īs a way for the kids to take home their very own rainbow, and to work on tuning those fine motor skills, we beaded Lucky Rainbow Necklaces for the post-storytime craft. When he gets to where the rainbow should be it has vanished, so he decides to pretend and have a rainbow of his own. A boy sees a rainbow from his window and runs out to catch it. We’ve enjoyed reading this one quite a bit at home, so I decided to share it with the storytimers this week. Baby bear experiences all the colors in his day which ends in witnessing a rainbow after a storm. This is a wonderful book for pre-school age children. I also talked a little bit about how a rainbow is made by the raindrops refracting the light of the sun into a rainbow of colors.

We started with red and went all the way to violet.

I held up a color and they would say what color it was. I asked them if they could help me determine the order of a rainbow and what colors were in it. We went over the colors of the rainbow and how rainbows are made using this flannel I made last year for St. Transitioning into rainbows, we read this story about Duckie and his walk through many different colored scenes which at the end take the shape of a rainbow. The last page features a rainbow which transitioned the storytime from rain to rainbows. and John Archambault, illustrated by James EndicottĪ picture book with a beautiful poem about the stages of a rainfall. Raindrop, Plop! by Wendy Cheyette Lewison, illustrated by Pam PaparoneĪ rhyming story that introduces counting by counting the raindrops.

Here’s what we read… Rain and Rainbows Storytime Line-up: After reading stories, we made lucky rainbow necklaces so the kids could take a little rainbow color and luck with them wherever they went. I opened up storytime by talking about the myth of the leprechaun and how he hides his gold at the end of the rainbow. But since it was so gloomy and rainy outside, I decided this week’s storytime would be about rain and rainbows. Patrick’s Day themed storytime this year. Even though storytime was the day of the holiday, I opted out out of a St. Patrick’s Day, and a quiet day at the library with the big downtown parade going on just a block away.

Raindrop plop by wendy cheyette lewison