How to Make a Rainbow

Want to learn how to make your very own rainbow? The kids will love this (and you may too!). Here's how to make your own rainbow!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Sunny day
• Garden hose

1. Grab a arden hose. It will help a great deal if you have a nozzle on the end that you can squeeze to control the amount of water that spews.

2. Be sure it is a sunny day out. Keep the sun to your back.

3. With the sun behind you, your head will create a shadow. Technically, rainbows appear around 42 degrees from the shadow of your head. This is where you'll want to spray a fine mist of water from the hose

4. I won't get technical on finding 42 degrees here..... simply find the shadow of your head and spray a mist of water about in 8-10 inch radius or so around the shadow. If you don't know where 42 degrees is, you'll find it in a second by accident. You'll know it because you'll see the rainbow ! Be sure the sun is to your back

5. The mist doesn't necessarily have to 'reach' the shadow, you just have to ensure you have the right angle.

6. Once you see the rainbow in the mist, you'll notice you can't see the whole arc or 'bow' of the rainbow. You'll just see a section of the rainbow. To see more,simply keep spraying and move the mist along the rainbow, it will arc right before your eyes!

Tips & Warnings

• Rainbows are pretty cool
• If the sun is high in the sky, you'll need to spray closer to your body.
• Sunlight is made of a many many colors but we can only see it as white. When sunlight passes through raindrops, it breaks into many different colors, causing a rainbow.