THE RAINBOW MUSEUM

“Children do not simply receive information from their context, but they transform it in order to understand it.”  -Claudia Giudici 

Rainbows are everywhere! Last year in the Art Barn children of almost every age and every class drew rainbows: they seized upon a series of colors and furiously repeated the process. There were so many rainbows that we started The Rainbow Wall.

While children see the depiction of a conventional  🌈 rainbow 🌈 in popular culture, no child was satisfied with repeating the convention. Instead, they played endlessly with the form, experimenting with line, shape, color and spatial location. 

THE RAINBOW WALL: 

a place to contemplate and compare the variety of rainbows

The Rainbow Wall

SORTING THE RAINBOWS: 

Once this trend was established (and our Rainbow Wall was full!) we analyzed our rainbows. We wondered: Can we name our rainbows? Can we sort our collection into categories? 

The children found similarities between groups of rainbows, and developed these categories: Arch Rainbow, Line Rainbow, Rainbow Necklace, Rainbow Walkway, Splatter Shell Rainbow, Rainbow Guy, Rainbow Mountain Tank, Heart Rainbows, Rainbow Fish, Angry and Worried Rainbows, Rainbow Scrambled Eggs

ALSO, WHY RAINBOWS?

“Colors next to each other are friends.” 

-Maxine, APS grad

“People like rainbows because they are so beautiful and have all the colors.”

-Cory, TK

“Kids make them because they seen a rainbow before and they want to draw one.” 

-Etta, TK

THE RAINBOW MUSEUM: A SHOWCASE OF THE CHILDREN'S WORK

Rainbow museum in the foyer of Aquatic Park School