I don’t know about you but we’ve fully embraced the rainbow trend here at the gingerbread house. We have rainbows all over the house including a felt rainbow needle case, a pom pom rainbow for kids, Cricut-made rainbow wall art, rainbows painted on rocks and made out of hama beads. They never fail to cheer us up! Today we wanted to share a fun paper rainbow craft for kids to make.

Rainbow craft supplies:
Craft paper
Scissors
Paper glue
Protractor
Ruler
Pencils
Colourful pens
Paper rainbow template

Simple paper rainbow craft for kids

Use a protractor to cut out a half circle shape from a thick white paper or a cardstock paper. If you don’t have a protractor then you can use my free paper rainbow template above.

Then cut out the purple shape using the biggest half circle shape from the template.

Glue the purple piece on the previous white piece.

Cut out shapes from blue, green, yellow, orange and red card too. Keep gluing on the piece from the template, bigger to smaller.

You will end up with a gorgeous paper rainbow.

Once you’ve glued all the pieces cut out a small half circular portion from the bottom middle of the rainbow.

Cut out the cloud shapes using the template above.

Then glue both cloud shapes onto the bottom corners of the paper rainbow.

Now use markers and colourful pens to draw a smiley face on the rainbow.

There you go! Your colourful smiley rainbow is ready! Make one or make a load and string them together to make rainbow bunting.