We’re Going on a Rainbow Hunt

<p style=”text-align:center”><img class=”aligncenter wp-image-508″ src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/rainbowcolorcanvas.jpg” alt=”April 3rd is National Find a Rainbow Day! Hafuboti has two rainbow scavenger hunt ideas along with free printables. Because rainbows should be free range! | http://wp.me/p2N1aX-89″ width=”584″ height=”422″></p>

April 3rd is National Find a Rainbow Day so it’s time for a simple scavenger hunt at the Children’s Library!

Several weeks ago we had a “Colorlicious Celebration” and we had a fun scavenger hunt where we hid colored dots around the library and the children were supposed to find a dot and then color the arc of the rainbow with the color that they found. &nbsp;Well, that was the theory. &nbsp;I underestimated the OCD-nature of many children and most made sure to follow the ROYGBV order – ignoring all other colored dots until they found the right colored dot for the proper order in the rainbow. &nbsp;It ended up being a hoot watching kids aggressively ignoring the blue dot while seeking the orange one

<a href=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/rainbow-dots.pdf”><img class=”wp-image-510 alignnone” src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/rainbow-dots.jpg?w=222″ alt=”Rainbow Dots” width=”178″ height=”240″></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/rainbow-coloring-sheet.pdf”><img class=”alignnone wp-image-509″ src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/rainbow-coloring-sheet.jpg?w=300″ alt=”Rainbow Coloring Sheet” width=”300″ height=”213″></a>

<span style=”font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625″>For National Find a Rainbow Day we’re hiding the fully-colored rainbows (as seen below) around the library (14 total) and will have each&nbsp;child either find as many rainbows as his/her age, or find as many as they possibly can. &nbsp;The younger crowd likes the age tie-in, and the older crowd tends to be a bit more competitive. &nbsp;We generally give out stickers as prizes which seem to go over pretty well.</span>

<a href=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/color-rainbow-printout.pdf”><img class=”alignnone wp-image-511″ src=”http://hafuboti.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/color-rainbow-printout.jpg?w=205″ alt=”Color Rainbow Printout” width=”205″ height=”300″></a>

<span style=”font-style:inherit;line-height:1.625″>Please click on any of the images above <em>(except the top one – that’s the jpeg I made for the library’s website so it’d be blurry if you try to enlarge it and print it off)</em> to get a printable pdf for your own use and spread the rainbow fun!</span>