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Make Your Own Weather

Rain clouds, snowflakes, wind swirls...students will explore various weather events and create outdoor scenes using torn paper.

Lesson Plan

Supplies Needed

Gather all the supplies needed to bring your craft ideas to life! From paints and markers to glue and scissors, our crafts section has everything to spark creativity and make every project truly special.

  • Paper

Steps

  • Step 1

    Ask children to name different types of weather events, such as rain, snow, thunder, lightning, tornadoes, etc. 

  • Step 2

    Have children create a torn paper collage that depicts a weather event. They might want to color pieces of paper bluish gray, crumple them up, and then flatten them to represent storm clouds. They could use wispy paper strips to represent wind.

  • Step 3

    When their collages are done, ask children to present their art and talk about activities that might be done in the weather they depicted, such as flying a kite on a breezy day, sledding in the snow, etc.

Standards

SCI: Design pictorial or graphic representations/models that are useful in communicating ideas. 

Adaptations

Have students make a rainstick. They can decorate a paper towel tube, either with crayons or by covering it in paper that they decorate. Put a small piece of paper at one end of the tube, fold it around the opening, and secure it with a rubber band. Tightly roll a long strip of aluminum foil and twist it into a corkscrew shape that will fit inside the tube. Add a handful or rice or dried beans into the tube, then seal the end with another piece of paper and a rubber band. Enjoy the sound of rain indoors!

Read a book such as "Dinosaur Thunder" by Marion Dane Bauer and Margaret Chodos-Irvine or "The Little Island" by Margaret Wise Brown and Leonard Weisgard. Discuss changing weather patterns and how people can feel comfortable in all types of weather.