Rainbows

Rhymes/Fingerplays/Songs:

Rain is Falling Down (Tune: "Farmer on the Dell"):
The rain is falling down, (flutter fingers down) SPLASH (clap once loudly)
The rain is falling down, (flutter fingers down) SPLASH (clap once loudly)
Pitter patter pitter patter (tap legs softly)
The rain is falling down, (flutter fingers down) SPLASH (clap once loudly)
Source: King County Library System

If You're Wearing Red Today (Tune: "Mary Had a Little Lamb"):
If you're wearing red today, red today, red today

If you're wearing red today, won't you please stand up

Continue with other colors that the children are wearing at storytime
Source: Abby the Librarian

Rainbow over the Waterfall:
Rainbow over the Waterfall (form arc, then dip hands down)

Rainbow over the tree, (form arc, the tree shape with hands)

Rainbow over the mountains (form arc, draw mountains)

Rainbow over the sea (form arc, rock hands like waves)

Rainbow over the flowers (form arc, cup hands for flower)

Rainbow over the bee, (form arc, then fly finger around)

Rainbow over the dancers, (form arc, then sway body)

Rainbow over me! (form arc, then point to self)
Source: Shadyside Library Storytime

Books:

1. "Mouse Paint"  by Ellen Stoll Walsh

2. "A Color of His Own" by Leo Lionni

I love all books, whether they are old or new, but sometimes it is nice to use some classics. I consider both of these authors, and these two books, classics in the picture book genre. 

"Mouse Paint" is about three white mice who find three jars of paint and then proceed to experiment with the colors. They mix the primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) to make other colors, by dipping themselves in the jars of paint. Then they decide it is better to paint paper instead of themselves, so that the three white mice can blend in with the white background and hide from the cat. 

"A Color of His Own" is about a chameleon. Chameleons change color and so this story is about a chameleon who just wants to have a color of his own.