Colors and Rainbows
Photography uses light to make pictures. Light is full of colors. These colors make the color wheel.
The color wheel colors always appear in order as with a rainbow. Rainbows occur when light from the sun moves through water and gets broken up to show all of the colors.
The fact that light contains colors was shown in an experiment a long time ago by the famous scientist Isaac Newton. He is the same person who thought about gravity after an apple fell on his head! He used glass instead of water. First he sent the light through the glass to make a rainbow. Then he sent the rainbow back through the glass in reverse to show that they made up light. This reverse process proved how colors make up light.
Rainbow Videos
Watch these videos to find out more about colors and rainbows.
Finding Rainbows
Here are some examples of rainbows everywhere!
Art Activity: Rainbows at Home
Now that you know how rainbows form from light you are ready to make a rainbow at home. Can you find things where you live to make your own rainbow? For example, collect different color foods,clothes, or toys and put them into rainbow ROY G BIV order and then take a photo. How many rainbows can you make with different materials?
Using crayons,paint, or colored pencils can you make an original rainbow?
Try to make a colorful rainbow also using other things. For example: use crayons to draw a rainbow showing a red fish, orange bug, yellow bird, blue whale, green frog, purple snail.