DEVELOPMENTAL DOMAIN CONCEPT MAP
PHYSICAL: Fine Motor
 Rainbow slime
 Playdough colour mixing matching to the
colour wheel
 Pony bead rainbow: Thread the matching
coloured beads on the pipe cleaner rainbow.
 Rainbow eruptions
 Colour sorting with water beads
PERSONAL / SOCIAL /
EMOTIONAL
 Let’s Make a Rainbow Together! Working
together to create a large rainbow mural out of
coloured handprints. Mixing primary colours to
fill the rainbow.
 Exploring prisms
 Creating rainbow light patterns with a CD
 Mirrors and reflections
 Light table sorting activity
 Tasting the rainbow
CREATIVE / AESTHETIC PHYSICAL: Gross Motor
 Oil and water experiment  Rainbow Ribbon Run: Lay coloured ribbons out
 Rainbow fish collage across from the children, assign each child a
colour, then have them race to grab their ribbon
 Crystal rainbow
and return to the starting position. With more
 Rainbow oobleck
children, this could become a colour relay.
 Colour changing flowers  Coloured hula hoop jumping: Children call out
 Exploring colours with light the colour of the hoop they jump in. Teacher
could also call out a colour and children have to
run to the hoop.
 Rainbow Limbo
 Rainbow wands and rings to dance with
Concept: Rainbows, Colours & Light  Rainbow Hop: Hop on the coloured domes while
Term: 2 Weeks: 3-4
singing the colours of the rainbow.
COGNITIVE / LANGUAGE SPIRITUAL / MORAL
 Milky fireworks  Reading stories: My Colour Is Rainbow by
 Rainbow storm Agnes Hsu; What Makes a Rainbow? by Belly
 Frozen yoghurt popsicles Ann Schwartz; Rainbow and You by Edwin C.
Krupp; A Rainbow of My Own by Don
 Rainbow Writing: Primary colours in zip lock bags to write
Freeman; Over the Rainbow by E.Y. Harburg;
and draw on and create secondary colours. All the Colours of the Rainbow by Allan Fowler.
 Rainbow playdough colour sorting  Rainbow butterfly dancing: Children wear
 Scented rainbow science colourful flowing wings and dance to soft
 Light box magic classical music, fluttering gracefully like a
 Homemade spectroscope butterfly.
 Nature colour hunt
 Meditation - Rainbow breaths: GoNoodle
https://app.gonoodle.com/activities/rainbow-
breath?s=Search&t=rainbow