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Rainbow Week for Preschoolers Featuring How the Crayons Saved the Rainbow

March 7, 2025

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As we head into the very last weeks of winter and the beginning of spring as well as St Patrick’s Day around the corner it seems the perfect time to focus on colors and what is more spring-like and colorful than a Rainbow.

This week for our Virtual Book Club for Kids we have a fun hands-on week of activities for your preschoolers on the theme of rainbows.

Featuring How the Crayons Saved the Rainbow by Monica Sweeney. Scroll down to find more rainbow books and our 5 simple easy to do activities to play, learn and create with your little ones in our fun Rainbow Week.

Virtual book club for kids rainbow week activities with How the Crayons Saved the Rainbow book

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  • Virtual Book Club for Kids Featured Book How the Crayons Saved the Rainbow
  • Rainbow Songs for Kids
    • Rainbow Colors Song | The Singing Walrus
    • Colors of the Rainbow | Jack Hartmann
    • The Rainbow Song | Super Simple Songs
  • Rainbow Week Activities for Preschoolers
  • More Rainbow Books for Preschoolers
  • More Colorful activity Plans from the Virtual Book Club for Kids

Virtual Book Club for Kids Featured Book How the Crayons Saved the Rainbow

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In this week’s featured book How the Crayons Saved the Rainbow by Monica Sweeney when the sun and the clouds fall out the rainbows disappear and colors start to go from the world. But left in the black and white world is a single pack of colorful crayons. They start drawing and they save the world bringing colors back and the sun and cloud together as friends again.

Spend time with your little ones talking about friendship, about colors, and the rainbow as you read the book together.

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Rainbow Songs for Kids

Rainbow Colors Song | The Singing Walrus

Colors of the Rainbow | Jack Hartmann

The Rainbow Song | Super Simple Songs

Rainbow Week Activities for Preschoolers

This week we have selected 5 simple Rainbow Activities for you and your preschoolers to do together that are easy, hands-on and fun. We select 5 activities that cover a range of different areas for preschool development. You can pick to do as many as you want from our selection and if you would like more ideas then scroll down we have our Rainbow Week Board on Pinterest which is full of even more activities to play, create and learn with.

We also have a rough structure that one of our team follows for their Virtual Book Club for Kids at home with their preschooler splitting the activities up throughout the week. If you like a structured approach like this then check out the image below which outlines what sort of activities they do on each day.

structured weekly schedule for the virtual book club for kids
Rainbow Weekly Planner for Preschoolers and Toddlers

Rainbow Week Activity Plan for Preschoolers

A fun week of planned activities for How The Crayons Saved the Rainbow and Rainbow Themed Activities.

Photo Credit: www.funathomewithkids.com

Rainbow Soap Foam Bubbles Sensory Play

Our sensory activity this week is some ā€œcleanā€ messy fun as we make someĀ rainbow sensory foamĀ for your preschoolers to play with.

Photo Credit: theeducatorsspinonit.com

Drip Painting Rainbow Name Activity for Preschoolers

We’re getting creative whilst we revisit names this week for our alphabet focus.

ThisĀ Drip Painting Rainbow PictureĀ is great to do with your preschooler.

Photo Credit: www.housingaforest.com

Rainbow Math Game

For our math activity this week we areĀ playing a rainbow math game.

This involves adding on to race to the ends of the rainbow. A fun simple game for you to play together.

Photo Credit: rainydaymum.co.uk

100% Fruit Rainbow Ice Pops

Your preschoolers will love making theseĀ rainbow fruit ice popsĀ for the rainbow week.

If it’s a little cold then instead of ice-pops why not help them cut up the fruit to create your own edible rainbow pictures for snack.

Photo Credit: www.toddlerapproved.com

STEAM Challenge: Little Cloud & Rainbow Blow Painting

This week’s art and craft is blow painting.

This fun technique is great for preschoolers and has the added benefit that it helps with speech too! So get making someĀ Blow Art Rainbow PicturesĀ with your little ones.

More Rainbow Books for Preschoolers

We have a featured book each week for our Virtual Book Club for Kids but know that sometimes it isn’t possible to find the book or you may want to add a few more books to the theme to the book basket during the week so as well as our featured book we also suggest 3 other themed books that we recommend for the week.

  • A Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman
  • My Color is Rainbow by Agnes Hsu
  • Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
  • The Little Raindrop by Joanna Gray
  • The World Made a Rainbow by Michelle Robinson
  • Rain Before Rainbows by Smriti Prasadam-Halls

Want more book suggestions? See our top picks of colorful Rainbow Books for Kids!

More Colorful activity Plans from the Virtual Book Club for Kids

pinnable image from the Virtual Book Club for Kids for the Rainbow themed activity plan with simple and easy rainbow activities for preschoolers in a colage, letters, games, snack and crafts as well as the featured book A rainbow of my own by don freeman
color week activities for preschoolers inspired by the book mix it up by herve tuttle
Pinterest image of a collage of fun colorful holi activities to do with preschoolers, rainbow rice sensory bin, holi sugar cookies, painting and handmade cards plus the book Festival of Colors. Text reads Holi Themed Weekly Activity Plan for Preschoolers

Looking for more colorful inspiration for activities then check out our Color Week Plan for Preschoolers Featuring Mix It Up by Herve Tuttle

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