Max Makes a Rainbow
Max wonders where rainbows come from, and discovers how to make one at home.
After the rain, a rainbow arced across the sky. ‘Where do rainbows come from?’ Max asked Juno the fox. Juno didn’t know. So Max decided to find out.
Max read that rainbows happen when sunlight shines through raindrops. The light bends and splits into seven colours. ‘I could do that,’ Max thought, ‘at home!’
Max stood in the sunlight with a prism. He held it up, and tilted it. Suddenly, the wall lit up with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet! ‘A rainbow!’ Max cried.
Juno tried to catch the colours with her paws, but they slipped away. They laughed, and danced in the little rainbow until the sun slid behind a cloud.
That evening, Max drew a picture of the rainbow in a notebook. ‘Now I know,’ he wrote. ‘Light has all the colours inside it.’ And Max smiled, feeling like a real scientist.
The little lesson
Curiosity is the beginning of wonder.
Let’s talk about it
- What colours are in a rainbow?
- What makes light split into colours?
Finish stories to collect Max as a sticker in your Sticker Book.
More Little Scientists stories
Whoosh! Ella Makes a Volcano
Ella builds a volcano for the science fair, and the experiment goes bubbly wrong!
Moe’s Fizzing Volcano
Moe builds a volcano for the science fair, and the experiment goes bubbly wrong!
Where Do Rainbows Come From, Benji?
Benji wonders where rainbows come from, and discovers how to make one at home.
You might also like
Cleo’s Goodnight Walk
Cleo says goodnight to everything in the whole wide world, one by one.
Pip and the Great Big ACHOO
Pip has a tickly nose. When the sneeze finally comes, it’s the biggest sneeze ever!
Dev and the First Snow
It snowed in the night! Dev rushes out to build the best snowman ever.