8 Rainbow Arts and Crafts Projects for Kids (To Celebrate LGBT+ History Month!)
Part of making tomorrow a brighter day is raising our kids to respect and appreciate the diversity they encounter in their lives. October is LGBT+ history month, and kids can benefit enormously from learning about the contributions of the LGBT+ community throughout history.
The rainbow flag has been a vital part of the LGBT+ movement since its creation by Gilbert Baker in 1978. These arts and crafts for kids celebrate colors just like the rainbow flag. You can take the opportunity of LGBT+ History Month to teach your kids both about the history of the rainbow flag, and about appreciating and utilizing the colors it features!
These 8 terrific, rainbow themed arts and crafts projects for kids will allow your kids to explore color, improve their fine motor skills, and build their awareness of diversity and inclusion all at the same time.
What Do the Colors of The Rainbow Flag Stand For?
There are many versions of the rainbow flag with slightly different meanings assigned to their colors. The most prevailing modern version is the 8-stripe version which features these colors:
Red for Life
Orange for Healing
Yellow for Sunlight
Green for Nature
Blue for Harmony
Purple for Spirit
Brown for Inclusivity
Black for Diversity
Rainbow Arts and Crafts for Kids
These crafts rejoice in the beauty of color, just like the rainbow flag! Try them at home to stimulate your child’s senses and teach them about diversity.
Sensory play is so important for young kids! It helps regulate their mood and their sensory input systems to optimize their learning and growth. And haven’t we all gotten that urge to stick our hands in a bag of rice? Rice provides a beautiful tactile experience, and coloring it hits two senses for the price of one! This recipe shows how to make this excellent sensory aid in a regular version with paint, and a food safe version for toddlers with food coloring!
There are so many arts and crafts projects you can tackle with an assortment of loose buttons. They’re a cheap cornucopia of crafting possibilities! Sorting them by color is a terrific activity to exercise kids’ cognitive functions. When you’ve done that, you can create such exciting rainbow crafts as this attractive windchime for the backyard or front porch!
Holy cow, we’ve hacked it! Check out this amazing tutorial on how to turn an ordinary yellow marker into a rainbow-making marker that your kid will go wild for!
At Wondrfly, we love a multitasker. This arts and crafts project will give your child all the benefits of crafting, together with an incentive to go and use their finished product by cracking open a book, building fine motor skills, confidence, and literacy all at once!
Get your kid up and moving with these fantastic ribbon rings that just beg to be waved around in celebration! Dancing is great exercise, and watching these ribbons wave and wiggle turns it into stimulating sensory play as well.
Teach your child to make art, not waste! This craft uses recycled paper scraps to create a captivating rainbow collage.
This whimsical, colorful wreath is a festive decoration appropriate for any time of year, but especially LGBT history month!
Your child will love working magic with this adorable wand which uses all the colors of the rainbow in its ribbon-tail.
For more information on the latest arts and crafts ideas for kids, visit the Wondrfly Blog. If you’re looking to enroll your child in in-person or virtual arts and crafts classes, try searching Wondrfly’s selection of Jersey City activity providers today!
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