Rainbow Writing – Importance And Activities

Writing with rainbow colours is so much fun, especially for children who love to experiment and try doing new things every day. To make children practice writing, we constantly ask them to repeat writing letters and words. Practicing to write using the same grey-black pencil can be a little boring for them. Here comes rainbow writing to make the process of writing fun, attractive and engaging for kids. Writing using different colours fill children with excitement and encourage them to practice more.

In this article, we have discussed everything about rainbow writing below along with some fun activities for kids to practice this concept. Let’s read how children can be benefited from rainbow writing in kindergarten.

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What Is Rainbow Writing?

Rainbow writing refers to repeatedly tracing letters using multiple crayons or colour pencils to create a fun rainbow effect while writing. It makes the writing process more fun and engaging for kids, as they repeat writing the words and practice spelling them.

What Are The Benefits Of Rainbow Writing for Young Kids?

Writing using colours can be so much fun for children. But along with all this fun, there are numerous benefits of rainbow writing for kids. Let’s read some of these benefits of rainbow writing.

• It makes learning to write a fun and engaging process for children.
• It fosters creativity among young learners.
• It motivates kids to write more.
• It makes lessons more exciting.
• It improves their spellings.
• It enhances their fine motor skills.

How Does Rainbow Writing Work For Preschoolers?

Now that you know the meaning of rainbow writing and its benefits, it’s time to learn how to do rainbow writing. We have covered a few points below that will help you understand how it works.

1. Decide what you want your child to practices. This can be alphabet, sight words, words your child already knew or some new words.
2. If you are teaching your child some new words, ensure that they know how to spell and pronounce these words before beginning the writing activity.
3. While using worksheets, make sure that you’ve printed enough content and then hand them out to your child.
4. If your child is new to rainbow writing, do bold the words or letters for the activity on the worksheet. You can skip this step if your child is an old learner.
5. Ask your child to trace over a letter or word as many times as they’d like using their favourite colours and produce unique results.

Remember that your child doesn’t need make straight or perfect lines but the mess they will make and the engagement will encourage them to repeat the activity.

Fun Way To Practice Rainbow Writing Activity For Spelling Words & Sight Words

Here is a fun activity which will help your little one to practice rainbow letter writing in a fun way.

Material You Need

• A pencil or pen
• A sheet
• 3 colours

Instructions

1. Say a word and write it on the sheet using a pen or a pencil. Say out each letter of the word loud as you write it.
2. Ask your child to repeat the word and trace over it with a crayon.
3. Repeat the above step and ask your child to trace the word again using another crayon, and then again with the third crayon.
4. Look at the beautiful rainbow pattern formed by tracing the word with different crayons.

Rainbow Writing Activities For Kindergarteners

In this section, we have covered some more interesting rainbow writing activities that your little one will love. Let’s take a look at these activities.

1. Repeat The Word

On a sheet write one word that your child is aware of and uses in their daily conversation. Now hand 10 different colour markers to your child and ask them to copy the word below it on to the paper with another colour marker. Ask them to repeat it using the other colour markers.

2. Spell The Words

Give your child one word at a time to write on a sheet. Ask them to write each letter of the word using different colours. Keep giving your child new words and help them to add these words to their vocabulary.

3. The 5 Game

Give your child a sheet and coloured markers. Ask them to write the name of five fruits they like, 5 vegetables they like, 5 games they like, 5 snacks they like, 5 cartoons they like, etc., using one marker for one name.

4. Roll A Dice And Colour

Ask your child to write alphabet on paper. Make they write them in big size. Ask your little one to roll a dice for each letter and rainbow write that particular letter as many times as the number on the dice. For example, when they roll the dice for letter A and get 3 on the dice, they have to rainbow write letter at three times with different colours, and repeat rolling the dice for other letter as well.

Helpful Tips While Learning Rainbow Writing For Preschoolers

Rainbow writing may look easy, but your need to keep a few things in mind when teaching your child rainbow writing. Below are some tips on rainbow writing for ks2 kids. This will help them learn to rainbow write.

• Ensure that you choose 7-8 colours.
• Start writing the word/letter with one colour, then trace it with additional colour.
• The word/letter will look like a rainbow after your child is done writing.
• Write the words/letters bigger than normal font to have room to trace with each colour.
• To make the learning process more fun, you can make your child practice rainbow writing with coloured chalk on a chalkboard or with coloured pens on a whiteboard.
• Make your child practice sight words, letters, numbers, or even math facts using rainbow writing.

Rainbow writing in preschool is an excellent way to make learning to write more engaging, fun and interactive for children. The concept of rainbow writing is easy to implement and can help engage kids and help them become better writers. Do try the above-mentioned activities to make your child practice rainbow writing.

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Pre-Writing Skills and Activities for Preschool Kids
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