Vik Makes a Rainbow
Vik 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?’ Vik asked Sia the cow. Sia didn’t know. So Vik decided to find out.
Vik read that rainbows happen when sunlight shines through raindrops. The light bends and splits into seven colours. ‘I could do that,’ Vik thought, ‘at home!’
Vik stood in the sunlight with a crystal. He held it up, and tilted it. Suddenly, the wall lit up with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet! ‘A rainbow!’ Vik cried.
Sia 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, Vik drew a picture of the rainbow in a notebook. ‘Now I know,’ he wrote. ‘Light has all the colours inside it.’ And Vik 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 Vik as a sticker in your Sticker Book.
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