This week we’ve been reading Alfie Weather by Shirley Hughes and attempting to dodge the rain showers. The weather has been particularly stormy this week and brought down trees nearby. We were inspired by the adventures of Alfie to spend the day indoors, out of the relentless downpours, and create our own sunshine. We spent the day creating rainbows from paint and paper, fruit, jelly and pizza then finished the day with an indoor rainbow picnic in a homemade den.
We began the day making Rainbow Party Fans.
To make the Rainbow Party Fans you will need:
- Paint
- Paintbrush
- A4 Paper
- Glue
- String
First we took the sheets of A4 plain paper and painted each one in a colour of the rainbow. We only have paint in primary colours so this involved lots of colour mixing as well as painting. It was tricky to find space for twelve sheets of paper to dry (we made two and only used Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Violet) so plan ahead before you get painting! Fortunately our paint dried quickly so it wasn’t too hazardous for long!
Once each of the painted sheets of paper was completely dry, we began to fold. We took the first sheet of paper and folded it lengthways in a concertina.
Then we folded the concertina in half.
We glued the inner folds to make one complete fan and used a paper clip to hold the join together until the glue was dry.
Once we had folded each individual fan we brought them all together to create a full rainbow of colours and we glued them all together.
We added a yellow circle in the centre to bring the rainbow colours together and remind us of the sunshine. Finally we punched a hole in the top and threaded some yellow wool through so that we could hang our Rainbow Party Fans up.
For the rest of our rainy day indoors we created a rainbow themed picnic. When the picnic was ready we packed our backpacks and went on an expedition around the house, until we settled and created a den with blankets so that we could enjoy our indoor picnic.
Our rainbow feast included rainbow jelly…
It was a great way to spend a stormy day inside. We were both exhausted by nightfall, despite having been indoors all day and the television didn’t go on once! Another definite bonus was that Burt ate all of his pizza that he had stretched, kneaded, flattened and topped, whereas he will usually refuse to eat pizza!
You can read more about the story that inspired us Alfie Weather by Shirley Hughes or discover some more crafts and activities linked to the book.
Have you been inspired by a book to craft, go on an outing or do an activity this week?
I am linking this craft up to the #GetYourCraftOn linky over at Kids’ Chaos. Pop over and check out lots of other rainbow crafts and activities.
That fan is so lovely and bright. I’m going to make some with the kids to hang in their bedrooms 🙂
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I love the fruit kebabs idea, and how bright and colourful is that fan!
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That fan is brilliant - such a simple but effective idea. I might give this one a try, thank you!
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These are just gorgeous and I love the Alfie books.
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The rainbow fan is guaranteed to be a huge hit with J. The fruit kebabs with me 🙂
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Priya Tew says
Wow I love these fans, I think we may cheat a little and used some coloured paper for the non-primary colours but looks like a lot of fun.
so bright and colourful, perfect for brightening up a miserable day
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Such a fab idea to keep kids occupied when it’s raining (and it is, most of the time now!) Thanks for sharing will keep it in mind when I have my own little ones!
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how wonderful are these!!
Thank you! Burt is really pleased with how they turned out 🙂
Clare Mansell says
Your rainbow party looks brilliant, am I too old for one myself!? Can’t believe you painted the paper for the decorations, it looked so perfect I thought it was coloured paper!
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LOVE IT!! Such a jolly craft. Perfect for the St Paddy’s Day #GetYourCraftOn challenge!!
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Oh that fan is beautiful and perfect for cheering up grey days
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How fabulous Kirsty - such a great idea and nice and colourful too. Wish I had more time with POD during the week so we could try out more craft, it’s always good fun 🙂
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What an awesome rainbow filled day you had! Love the rainbow fan x
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The fan is beautiful! Such lovely colours in this post & it all looks like such fun x
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The kebabs look so tasty and the fan is so pretty. Sounds like a fab day!
ooh i like the fan! we used to love making things like this when we were little.
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The girls love making fans and it’s been ages since we made homemade pizza. Thanks for the great ideas 🙂
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That jelly looks fun to make!
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I love this idea, and the themed play afterwards. Inspired!
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I’m really loving that fan - So cute and colourful too
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Love this, have pinned and tweeted it! We’re planning (ok, I’m doing the planning) to do something for St Patricks day this weekend thanks to #getyourcrafton
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I missed last month so was really pleased to have managed to do a #getyourcrafton project this month. Can’t wait to see what you get up to this weekend.
This looks great - a fan colour wheel! Fantastic idea 🙂
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BlueBearWood says
love the pin wheel, would make lovely bunting
Such a fab idea, love the colours x
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I love this idea, will be making with the kids later!
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We LOVE fruit kebabs although they *may* often be served with melted choc 😉
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Love all of these ideas. Elle has started to draw rainbows at any opportunity so introducing some other activities for her will be wonderful x
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A great craft activity, this would lovely hanging in the window x
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I love how you are so inspired by the books. The rainbow fan is such a nice idea.
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