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.

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  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.

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  Color and tear out a Color Wonder Paper circle to make a big yellow sun. Glue the sun on a colored construction paper background.

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  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.

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  Next make raindrops. Color a big area of blue with Soft Sticks. Tear it into tiny raindrops. Glue them falling from the rain clouds.

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  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?

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.

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?