There's something truly magical about watching coloured light dance across a room - and this rainbow sun catcher craft lets little ones create that magic themselves. These DIY sun catchers make beautiful stained glass-effect decorations, catching sunlight in the most wonderful way. This tutorial was put together in collaboration with Jess (@learnandbloom). With her children, they put theirs together using small mosaic tiles cut from our coloured waxed kite paper, stuck onto sticky contact shapes - a simple, satisfying process that children of all ages can enjoy.

This is a lovely activity for a rainy day or the school holidays - school-age children can usually manage the cutting, peeling and placing on their own, while younger ones are happy to help build the mosaic collage. It only takes around 20 to 30 minutes from start to finish, and there's real value in the process itself - peeling the contact, placing small pieces of paper, and choosing colours all build fine motor skill and concentration.

However you make them, the result is the same - a beautiful pop of rainbow colour in the window, any time of year.