Easy Rainbow Snack on a Stick for Preschool -

What’s better than easy rainbow crafts for preschoolers? How about an easy edible craft for preschoolers?! These yummy rainbow colored snacks are a fun way to have a crafty morning while practicing colors and having a sweet marshmallow treat. The Easy Rainbow Snack on a Stick for Preschool will delight your students as they create a 3D rainbow treat to snack on all day (or it might disappear quite quickly).

Rainbow cereal like Fruit Loops and marshmallows to create a edible rainbow craft for preschoolers

Rainbow Crafts for Kids:

RAINBOW SNACK IDEAS FOR PRESCHOOL

A RAINBOW THEME FITS NATURALLY IN PRESCHOOL AS CHILDREN EXPLORE AND LEARN COLORS, OR IN CONJUNCTION WITH A SPECIAL HOLIDAY IN MARCH.

Rainbow theme snacks and crafts are a great, interactive way to explore colors. And what child doesn’t love a cereal snack?!

I love this rainbow snack for preschool because it doubles as a craft! Creating the snack will be half the fun and provide an opportunity for students to practice naming colors. And if you’ve ever smelled a classroom ripe with piles of fruit loop snacks, you also know that sense will be highly activated!

The froot loop cereal craft comes together in just a few easy steps. Do it for a morning snack or an afternoon treat. If you’d rather not fill up on added sugars, make the craft with colorful fruit or maybe cotton balls and colored beads (inedible of course).

As you work those fine motor muscles by sliding Kellogg Froot Loops Jumbo Snax (no high fructose corn syrup and packaged perfectly for snacking) onto a stick, you can encourage thinking and talking:

What are the colors of the rainbow?
Are they in a specific order?
What’s your favorite color?
What colors do you see around you?

Plate of Fruit Loops cereal and one skewer with rainbow cereal threaded onto it with marshmallows at both ends to look like clouds edible craft for preschoolers

What Can Preschoolers Learn From Rainbow Crafts?

CRAFTING WITH KIDS

CRAFT PROJECTS USING ANYTHING FROM CONSTRUCTION PAPER TO WATERCOLORS HELP CHILDREN REACH A RANGE OF DEVELOPMENTAL MILESTONES.

Sharing a variety of craft projects (and snacks) helps children develop important developmental skills:

Fine motor skills
Pattern recognition
Skill practice
Shapes/Colors
Language skills
Vocabulary

Image shows rainbow cereal being threaded onto a skewer for a cereal snack for preschoolers

Why Is It Important For Kids To Do Crafts?

Besides the fact that kids love arts and crafts projects, there are so many other reasons you should do break out the tissue paper, glue, and scissors.

Develop a Child’s Creativity

Arts and crafts allow kids to think creatively and put their own spin on each project. It helps develop problem-solving and gives them freedom of expression.

Bond with Your Child

Sitting down with your child and giving them your attention to make a rainbow cake, or a paper airplane, shows that you love them and increases the bond you share.

Develop a Child’s Self-Esteem

If you’ve ever seen the pride in a child’s eyes after painting a picture or creating something with play dough, it’s plain to see that they feel a sense of accomplishment with each project completed.

Introduce Basic Math

Arts and crafts projects are a great introduction to shapes, colors, lines, and textures. All of these concepts are important foundational math ideas.

Tools you’ll need

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How To Make the Rainbow Snack Stick

How to Make the Snack

Ingredients:

Wood Coffee Stir Stick
Froot Loops Cereal
Large Marshmallows (room temperature)

Directions:

Add froot loops cereal to the stick in rainbow color order (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple).
Repeat this step, if desired , if you have room on the stick. Leave room at each end of the stick for the marshmallow.
Stick a marshmallow on each end of the stick to complete the snack.

Enjoy!

Shows three rainbow snacks for preschool. Rainbow colored cereal on a stick with marshmallows at both ends as clouds

Our Favorite Color Theme Books for Kids:

We can’t live without these!

Once your child’s creativity is sparked with this fun activity, take it a step further with these engaging resources:

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Monsters Love Colors Mix It Up (Interactive Books for Toddlers, Learning Colors for Toddlers, Preschool and Kindergarten Reading Books) Mouse Paint A Color of His Own Su propio color (A Color of His Own, Spanish-English Bilingual Edition) The Day the Crayons Quit Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes

Sorting

Use the leftover cereal to sort onto colored construction paper mats.

Graphing

Graph the leftover cereal onto a graph, totaling up the number of each color.

Draw

Since the rainbow snack won’t last long, allow children to draw and color their snack on a piece of paper.

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Rainbow snacks for preschool skewers with rainbow cereal as a snack. Place marshmallows at both ends of the skewer to look like a rainbow with clouds

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