Making Edible Standing Rainbows

Category Crafts For Kids

Edible Standing Rainbows - plate of rainbows

To make a fun edible standing rainbow, all you need is Fruit Loops cereal, marshmallows, and pipe cleaners. This is a good kids' craft to learn about colors and threading with a pipe cleaner.

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Edible Standing Rainbows

By attosa [1,228 Posts, 5,310 Comments]

March 7, 2018

This craft is great for kids. It involves colour separation, counting, and basic crafting. After creation, they can be eaten, too. Have fun!

Supplies:

Froot Loops cereal
pipe cleaners
large marshmallows

Steps:

Separate the cereal by colours.

Edible Standing Rainbows - separate the cereal by color

Poke a marshmallow through one side of a pipe cleaner all the way through so that one of the level ends faces outward. Bend the end to secure.

Edible Standing Rainbows - push a marshmallow onto one end of a pipe cleaner and bend the end to secure

String the cereal hoops on, four of each colour. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, then purple.

Edible Standing Rainbows - put four pieces of each color of the cereal onto the pipe cleaner

Poke another marshmallow through the other end of the pipe cleaner, bend to secure. Trim any excess if necessary.

Edible Standing Rainbows - push a marshmallow onto the other end and trim pipe cleaner if needed

Very gently bend the pipe cleaner to make a perfect arch.

Edible Standing Rainbows - carefully bend the pipe cleaner to make an arch

The rainbow will stand on the marshmallow clouds on its own.

Edible Standing Rainbows - the rainbow will stand on the marshmallow clouds

Make multiple, if desired, then stand on a serving platter. Add more marshmallows around to make them look like puffy cumulus clouds.

Edible Standing Rainbows - make several and place on a plate with more marshmallows

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