diff --git a/packages/babel-helper-builder-react-jsx/src/index.js b/packages/babel-helper-builder-react-jsx/src/index.js
index 4f2473ae50..3602ecb849 100644
--- a/packages/babel-helper-builder-react-jsx/src/index.js
+++ b/packages/babel-helper-builder-react-jsx/src/index.js
@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ You can turn on the 'throwIfNamespace' flag to bypass this warning.`,
       );
     }
   };
+
+  visitor.JSXSpreadChild = function(path) {
+    throw path.buildCodeFrameError(
+      "Spread children are not supported in React.",
+    );
+  };
+
   visitor.JSXElement = {
     exit(path, file) {
       const callExpr = buildElementCall(path, file);
diff --git a/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-disallow-spread-children/input.js b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-disallow-spread-children/input.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6a05e108dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-disallow-spread-children/input.js
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+<div>{...children}</div>;
diff --git a/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-disallow-spread-children/options.json b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-disallow-spread-children/options.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bcb773e343
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/babel-plugin-transform-react-jsx/test/fixtures/react/should-disallow-spread-children/options.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  "throws": "Spread children are not supported in React."
+}