Rainbow Mural

Time

Art & Crafts

4 3 2 1 Early-Mid Stages

Benefits

Participants

Group Activity

What you need

Lots of magazines, catalogues or comics
A very large sheet of paper, with the outline of a rainbow drawn on (it needs 7 sections)
Scissors
Glue

Intro

Few things are more uplifting than the sight of a colourful rainbow. But when you haven’t got the perfect combination of rain and shine, just get arty and make one of your own from colourful scraps of magazines, catalogues or comics. The end result is a vibrant collage to brighten up any room!

This simple activity runs over several sessions, as there are various stages involved. It encourages people to work together, as each small group gets just one stripe of the rainbow to complete, and then you put them all together at the end.

The Activity

In the first sessions, get everyone to flick through the magazines, catalogues or comics, tearing out all the pages with colours from the rainbow. You’re looking for anything red, yellow, pink, green, orange, purple and blue
Once you’ve collated a pile of coloured pages, it’s time to cut out or tear single coloured pieces about 1-2 inches square
Put your pieces of red, yellow, pink, green, orange, purple and blue into separate boxes
For the next sessions, you will begin gluing them to the collage
Depending on the size of your group, give each person or small team a section of the rainbow and a box of single coloured pieces
Show people, if needed, how to stick the pieces to the template
Encourage people to keep gluing the pieces onto the rainbow, layering them up until you can’t see the white paper anymore
Let the sections dry
Put the coloured stripes together to create a rainbow and display it on a communal wall, so everyone can enjoy it
Get everyone to sign their name on the mural to show they’ve participated in this beautiful achievement