This rainbow sort activity is a fine motor skills idea to help kids sort colors while developing dexterity and precision and learning colors. By sorting the colors of the rainbow into small containers, a rainbow fine motor activity is a colorful way to help kids develop fine motor skills. Add this idea to your rainbow theme in therapy interventions, or home activities for developing motor skills.
Extend this activity and sort the rainbow colors to make a Fruit Loop rainbow craft for more fine motor and visual motor fun.


Rainbow Sort
We have been on a rainbow kick recently and have a ton of rainbow projects going on right now. This color sorting activity was a fun one that the big kids and my toddler really got into.
This rainbow sort activity is easy to set up. All you need is colorful craft pom poms and an ice tray or two. The ice trays are the perfect size for the crafting pom poms.

Preschool Rainbow Activities

Rainbow Handwriting Kit– This resource pack includes handwriting sheets, write the room cards, color worksheets, visual motor activities, and so much more. The handwriting kit includes:
- Write the Room, Color Names: Lowercase Letters
- Write the Room, Color Names: Uppercase Letters
- Write the Room, Color Names: Cursive Writing
- Copy/Draw/Color/Cut Color Worksheets
- Colors Roll & Write Page
- Color Names Letter Size Puzzle Pages
- Flip and Fill A-Z Letter Pages
- Colors Pre-Writing Lines Pencil Control Mazes
- This handwriting kit now includes a bonus pack of pencil control worksheets, 1-10 fine motor clip cards, visual discrimination maze for directionality, handwriting sheets, and working memory/direction following sheet! Valued at $5, this bonus kit triples the goal areas you can work on in each therapy session or home program.

Colleen Beck, OTR/L has been an occupational therapist since 2000, working in school-based, hand therapy, outpatient peds, EI, and SNF. Colleen created The OT Toolbox to inspire therapists, teachers, and parents with easy and fun tools to help children thrive. Read her story about going from an OT making $3/hour (after paying for kids’ childcare) to a full-time OT resource creator for millions of readers. Want to collaborate? Send an email to contact@theottoolbox.com.
9 thoughts on “Rainbow Sort Color Activity”
Always love finding rainbow activities my 17-month-old could ACTUALLY accomplish (so many are beyond her skill level). Consider yourself pinned, my friend.
This is a another great one! Super fun and I can see my girls loving this one too! Thanks for sharing on We Made That!
Thanks, Susie! We will check it out.
Thanks, Beth! Your little one will love it, mine sure does 🙂
Have a great weekend!
Thanks, It was a lot of fun 🙂
This is such a wonderful activity for fine motor skills and sensory play. Thank you for linking up to Tuesday Tots and letting you know that I will be featuring this as well on Rainy Day Mum this week.
Thanks, Cerys! You always have such great links on Tuesday Tots, we love to join up each week!
Thanks for the invite. We will stop by!
love the tray. I did a tray of pom poms with my tot a few weeks ago and he loved it. We will have to add the ice tray next time! Thanks for the idea:-)
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