Make Your Own Weather
Raindrops falling from dark clouds? Or a sunny day? Color, crumple, and tear a no-mess scene to show your favorite weather.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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?
Adult supervision is required for any arts & crafts project.
Color Wonder™—Wash hands well with soap and water after use.
- 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?
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