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This looks like a rainbow coming through a window! But this rainbow isn’t made of light. What do you think it’s made of?
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These fake rainbows are made from hundreds of pieces of string! They’re made by Mexican-born artist Gabriel Dawe.
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You can make rainbow string art, too, if you have some pushpins (or nails) to wrap colorful string around!
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Most people use crayons like this when coloring rainbows. But if you get crayons HOT, there’s another way to make a rainbow...
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Hot crayons melt—so the crayons can drip and create a rainbow! This artist is using a special tool that blows REALLY hot air!
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Can you tell what this is a picture of? (It’s a close-up picture of something you’ve probably seen before!)
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They’re soap bubbles, which have rainbow colors! A single bubble is round, but when many are next to each other, they look like this.
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Look at this video an artist made! If you look closely at soap bubbles, you may notice the liquid and colors moving and swirling.
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Watch how the light moves as people turn the glass shapes. But if you add even more glass, something else happens (next slide)...
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This art is also made using light and glass! Different kinds of glass are tilted in just the right way to make amazing colors on the walls.
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Shadows are normally gray or black. Can you think of any way to get a shadow to be a different color, like pink?
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Gray shadows are made when white light shines on things. But if you use blue, green, and red lights, they make shadows like these!
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    -Eliana, Kindergarten

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