Audrey Grace and I love to make crafts or do “projects” as she calls them, together. At 5 years old, she is finally at an age where she is eager and ready to participate which I love. This month her preschool class is learning all about rainbows, so in honor of St. Patrick’s Day I decided that we would make some fun, fuzzy Rainbow Art together. It’s really simple and you can easily do it at home with your kids this week – here is a step-by-step on how it’s done.

First of all, I used a template from Craft Project Ideas, which gave a list of suggested items. However, when I went to my local Walmart, they were completely out of the regular 100 pack of poms, so after a bit of deliberation, I decided that I could easily complete the same project with pipe cleaners. I actually ended up liking the way it looked even better because the lines were more “rainbow-ey”. Either way, all of the materials were purchased in the craft section of Walmart!

Here is a photo of all of the materials that we used:

The first step was having Audrey Grace spread some glue on the back of the template that we printed out so that we could mount it on the green construction paper, like so:

After that Audrey Grace sorted through the pipe cleaners to find 3 of each color. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.

Since we didn’t have the 100 pack of poms, we didn’t have any plain black poms to make the pot for the pot of gold. Instead, Audrey Grace used a black marker to color the pot black and it worked just fine.

Here is what it looked like once she had the 3 red pipe cleaners glued on the page. We continued in the order of the rainbow from there!

As we reached the bottom of the rainbow, some of the pipe cleaners were too long for the template, but I just let her glue them on anyway and figured that once it dried a bit, I would go back and trim them down.

Clearly it was a bit of a mess before I trimmed it.

But once I did it was easier to see what the final product would eventually look like!

Her favorite part was gluing on the blue glitter pom poms for the cloud, and the gold poms for the “gold” at the end of the rainbow!

And voila! A completed art project that we are both proud of, and that she can’t wait to bring to school to “share” with her classmates tomorrow!

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post on behalf of Walmart.