Preschool prism activities

Kids can experience how prisms turn light into rainbows with a Rainbow Prism Busy Bag. It's an educational way to keep your little STEM-ist busy.

Learn about how light bends or refracts while you make rainbows with prisms, crystals and more for simple science learning for STEM.

Light refraction is the bending of light, or the change in direction of the rays as it moves past a boundary. For example, when light crosses through a window, it is refracted and can create a rainbow. A prism illustrates this theory. As light passes through the prism, it refracts and separates into an entire spectrum, or rainbow, of light. Introducing this concept to preschoolers can be done by experimenting with prisms or by a simple project using a glass of water and a piece of white…

Rainbow Science for Kids: Exploring Light Using Prisms (Next Generation Science Standard First Grade: NGSS 1-PS4-3)~ BuggyandBuddy.com

Explore the beautiful art of light science with a prism, flashlight and some chalk. Prism Play and Chalk Art from Left Brain Craft Brain.

This week we’re focusing on rainbow science for kids by exploring prisms. Prisms can provide such a fun, hands-on way for kids to observe and hypothesize about light. Here’s some fun ways to use prisms with preschoolers, kindergarteners, and elementary students. *This science activity correlates with Next Generation Science Standard (NGSS) 1-PS4-3. Follow our Science for Kids Pinterest board! ...

These free rainbow activity printables are great for keeping the kids busy this year. Simply download the sheets for hours of learning fun!

Rainbow Suncatcher Craft - Homeschooling Preschool

Science and art combine in this amazing and simple rainbow experiment. The kids will love to make, explore and paint rainbows,

This experiment gives plenty of observation time as kiddos watch 2 sides of a rainbow grow together and make one big rainbow! Find more about this experiment here!