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Rainbow Pompom Race

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Today I am sharing this colorful and fun activity we call rainbow pompom race! Practice color recognition and fine motor skills.

Today I am sharing this colorful and fun activity we call rainbow pompom race! Practice color recognition and fine motor skills.

Rainbow Pompom Race

This pompom activity develops color recognition and gives opportunity for oral motor exercise too, which in turn helps with speech development. Did you know that vowel sounds like “ooh” and “oh” use the same face muscles as blowing on straws? This activity strengthens these muscles which are used in proper pronunciation of these vowels.

To begin, first gather your materials.

  • Rainbow color containers (you can use little boxes or egg cartons and paint it with rainbow colors)
  • Rainbow color pompoms
  • Straws

Today I am sharing this colorful and fun activity we call rainbow pompom race! Practice color recognition and fine motor skills.

Place the containers in a semi circle at the one end of the table. The pompoms can be spread out more or less 30cm from the containers. (Older kids might like the challenge of blowing a bit further.) My perfectionist child chose to organize the pompoms first according to color and then blow it across the table. Whatever works, right?

Today I am sharing this colorful and fun activity we call rainbow pompom race! Practice color recognition and fine motor skills.

Simply blow the pompoms into the same color containers. This sounds easy enough, but it did take my 4 year old a few tries before he got the angle right. You can challenge your child to blow as many pompoms as he can in a certain time period if he needs more of a challenge.
Or, as an alternative for siblings/friends: play this game by setting the containers up like this:

Today I am sharing this colorful and fun activity we call rainbow pompom race! Practice color recognition and fine motor skills.
They choose their colors first and divide the containers and pompoms. They start blowing at the same time, the child that have all their pompoms in the correct containers first, is the winner!

Today I am sharing this colorful and fun activity we call rainbow pompom race! Practice color recognition and fine motor skills.

More Rainbow and Color Sorting Activities

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Filed Under: Activities, Arts and Crafts, Kindergarten, Preschool Tagged With: colors, fine motor, rainbow

About Nadia

Nadia is a South African mom to two littles, a former preschool teacher, and currently working as a reading therapist at a remedial school. She blogs over at Teach me Mommy about easy and playful activities inspiring you to be your child's first teacher. You can see more of her ideas on Pinterest and Instagram.

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