How to Make a Rainbow: A Crayola ® Color Story

By Laura Purdie Salas

Let's make a rainbow! The sky is our laboratory. We can use the colors all around us! Where can you find red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lerner Publishing
• Release date: Jan 1, 2018
• ISBN: 9781541523265

Laura Purdie Salas

Laura Purdie Salas is the author of more than 135 books for kids, including If You Were the Moon, Lion of the Sky, theCan Be… series, and Bookspeak! Poems about Books. Poetry and rhyming nonfiction books are her favorite things to write. Laura loves to do author visits, writing workshops, and teacher inservices. Read more about Laura and her work at laurasalas.com.

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Reviews for How to Make a Rainbow

[carlathelibrarian · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This book combines art and some science to teach children about rainbows. There is a brief explanation about what makes a rainbow, followed by pages of the colours in the rainbow and pictures of items in those colors. My grandson had fun trying to identify all the items. There is then a short section about the order of the colours followed by an activity to create your own rainbow. There are resources listed at the back of the book as well as a glossary. This book could be used in a primary classroom for an art lesson on hues and shades as well as a lesson on rainbows and prisms in science. When we made out rainbow, it did not turn our looking like the one in the book, but it was still a fun activity. The publisher generously provided me with a copy of this book via Netgalley.