Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert is a story about a child and her mother planting bulbs, seeds, and seedlings.  When spring comes the flowers grow into a beautiful rainbow.

How are rainbows formed?

Rainbows, like blooming flowers, are another sign of spring.   Flowers need rain to grow. It rains a lot in the spring.

Rainbows are formed when light shines through water like when the sun shines through the rain. This light is bent and separated into all of the amazing colors that you see.

Rainbows normally appear from the rain, but they can happen wherever light is being bent inside of water droplets. Rainbows can be seen in mist, fog, spray, and dew.

Rainbows are made up of all seven colors that come from light. These colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

A great way to remember these colors is the think of the acronym:  ROY G BIV.

Somewhere over the Rainbow

Maybe you can try this at home! All you need is paper towel, markers, water and a casserole dish or large bowl (preferably clear or white).

Enjoy the rainbow while in the bowl, it doesn’t survive well when you try to remove it from the water!

Here are some other rainbows that the children made: