Rainbow Painting with Q-Tips

• Q-tips – one per color
• paint – all the colors of the rainbow
• tape or glue dots
• plate and newspaper
• white cardstock paper

1. Set our your paints and get your Q-tips ready.
2. Cut your cardstock paper in half to make a 4-1/4 x 5-1/4 sized card and fold your paper in half.
3. Now it’s time for the painting. There are a few ways to use your Q-tips when painting these rainbows. We used a few different techniques.
All in a line: Line up 6 Q-tips in a row. Add a piece of tape to the tops of all the Q-tips in a line. I added a second piece of tape to the other end as well, just to keep it secure. Then flip over the taped Q-tips and add 2 more pieces of tape on top of the others to make them really secure, sandwich style.
Dip each Q-tip in a color of paint. You may have to bend/fold each Q-tip toward the color of paint you want so you don’t get a red one in the orange. But if you do, it’s okay. It kind of gives it a fun blurred look.
With your paper ready, start at one side of the paper and press all the tips of the Q-tips on the paper and slide/paint them across. You may have to do it a couple of times for it to show up well on either side.
One at a time: You can simply use one Q-tip per color and add it to your card one at a time. This is the easy way. Not as fancy, but it makes a really clear, deep rainbow color.
4. You can be finished here with your rainbow or you can add a little gold sprinkle paint to the card as well. We decided to put a few gold clouds and a gold filled pot at the end of our rainbows.