Make Your Own Weather

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Why?

Raindrops falling from dark clouds? Or a sunny day? Color, crumple, and tear a no-mess scene to show your favorite weather.

Steps

  1. 1. Use Crayola Color Wonder™ Paper and Soft Sticks® to create a no-mess picture of the weather you enjoy most—or what is happening outside your window right now. Here is one way to show a rainy day scene.
  2. 2. Color and tear out a Color Wonder Paper circle to make a big yellow sun. Glue the sun on a colored construction paper background.
  3. 3. Tear several clouds from Color Wonder Paper. Crumple them up and unfold them. Color the rain clouds to look stormy—the folds will look a bit darker and add texture. Glue the clouds into your picture.
  4. 4. Next make raindrops. Color a big area of blue with Soft Sticks. Tear it into tiny raindrops. Glue them falling from the rain clouds.
  5. 5. Complete your picture with a rainbow, grass, flowers, or even yourself with your umbrella. When the glue is dry, display your picture. What weather did the other children in your group choose?

adaptations

Talk about other types of weather that occur in your climate. Make snowflakes, wind storms, sleet or hail.

Write weather words on Color Wonder Paper and watch them appear. Use them to label the weather picture.

Dress up in stormy-weather clothes such as boots, mittens, furry hats, or slickers. Match what you are wearing to one of the pictures.

Assessment: Can children name the colors and identify shapes they used in their pictures? Have children represented one type of weather in their scenes?

benefits

Children observe clouds, precipitation, wind, and other outdoor conditions to notice changes in the weather.

Children represent one type of weather in a colorful torn-paper collage.

grades

Pre-K and Kindergarten
Grades 1 to 3

subjects

Science
Visual Arts

time

30 to 60 minutes

curriculum standards links

US: Research U.S. Standards
UK: Research UK Standards
Canada: Research Canada Standards

safety guidelines

Color Wonder™—Wash hands well with soap and water after use.

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