WEATHER
ART ACTIVITIES
Rain Painting
On a RAINY day, have each child take a paper plate and sprinkle some food coloring or
tempura paint (powdered can be used too) on the plate. Have them put on their raincoats
and carry the plate outside and stand in the rain for a minute or so. After they bring
them in and look at them, discuss the designs. This is a fun activity!
Cloud Art
Give each child a piece of light blue construction paper. Have them fold it in half, then
unfold. They use eyedroppers to squeeze 3 or 4 drops of white paint.They re-fold the
paper, rub the paper lightly.Then when they re-open, they have a cloud picture.
Children can make their own kites and to fly them around on windy days.
On a snowy day or frosty day
paint pictures using white paint.
On snowy days paint snowflake using green peppers as stencils
Make Windsocks
Each child will need: a cylindric container such as a Pringles or an oatmeal box
with the top and bottom removed.
:construction paper to cover the container
:materials to decorate the paper
:crepe paper
:strong string
Have them decorate the paper and then glue it to the container. Then glue some strips of
crepe paper to the bottom. To hang, punch four holes in the top of the container, lace a
string knotted at one end through each hole and tie the four ends together. Children can
bring them home and place them outside and watch the wind blowing their windsock all
around.
Make a Pinwheel
Use a medicine dropper and blue paint to make rain
pictures.
Umbrella Art
Cut out an umbrella shape and have your child decorate it with paint,
glitter, fabric, crayons, or whatever you can come up with.
Cotton Ball Clouds
Make gray cloud shapes from construction paper. Have the children glue on
cotton balls.
Rain and Rainbow Collage
Look in a magazine or newspaper for pictures of rain,or rainbows, cut them
out, and let your child glue them onto a piece of paper for a collage.
Torn Paper Rainbows
Apply glue onto a piece of paper where the first color of the rainbow should be, you can
make a half or full arc. Have your child apply red torn paper to the glued area. Next
apply glue under the red torn paper for the next color, and so on!
Easy Rainbows
Tape three or four different colored crayons in a straight line. Show your
child how to draw a rainbow with one stroke.
Cereal Rainbows
You will need a box of Fruit Loops (or similar cereal), paper, pencil and glue. For
younger children, you should draw a rainbow shape on to the paper then have the children
glue the fruit loops inside the shape. Older children can make their own rainbow shape, or
trace it.
Handprint Rainbow
Obtain a large piece of butcher paper. Have the children make a rainbow
using their handprints using all the colors of the rainbow.
Tissue Paper Rainbows
Apply glue onto a piece of paper where the first color of the rainbow should be, you can
make a half or full arc. Have your child apply red tissue paper to the glued area. Next
apply glue under the red tissue paper for the next color, and so on! You will only be able
to do three or four colors.
Clouds
Supply each child with a piece of blue paper, a cotton ball and white paint. Have the
child dip the cotton ball into the white paint and press onto the paper to make cloud
prints.
Rain Sticks
Use foam pipe insulation tubes, cut them to the appropriate length (usually about
18"), insert round toothpicks through the tube, approximately a finger-width apart,
spiraling down the length of the tube. Snip the protruding length off the toothpicks, tape
a cardboard circle to the bottom of the tube, and fill the tube with approximately 1-cup
of barley kernels. Tape another circle over the top, and wrap the entire length with tape,
to hold the toothpicks in place and to give a good decorating surface. (Brown packing
tape, duct tape, pvc tape) Decorate your stick with ribbons, feathers, markers, beads or
anything else you dream up.
Turn the tube over slowly, and listen to the rainfall!
Rainy Day Craft Box
Talk about what kinds of things people do when they can't go outside to play. Create
a"Rainy Day" craft box. Have on hand when the weather keeps everyone inside.
Sun Collage
Have children cut out pictures of people doing things out in the sun.
Make Sunglasses
Cut sunglasses shape out of cardboard. Glue on colored saran wrap to make lenses.
Sparkle Snow Paint
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1/2 cup water
Mix together and put in a squeeze bottle. Squeeze doughy paint out on to
black construction paper. Make anything snowy, snowflakes, snowmen,etc.
Sparkly Bottle
Metallic glitter is magically suspended in plastic soda bottles, creating a rainbow of
swirling colors.
Small clear plastic soda bottle with a cap
Light corn syrup
Assorted shapes of metallic confetti (found in gift and card shops)
Cold water
Fill pop bottle 3/4 of the way with corn syrup. Add a small handful of metallic
confetti. Top the bottle off with water.
Seal the bottle securely with a cap. Shake.
Solar Pictures
Place objects on top of a piece of paper. Put the paper in the sun.
The light will bleach the paper lighter except for where the object was.
Handprint Rainbow
Construction Paper (different colors)
Scissors
Glue
Markers
Trace your hand onto several different colors of construction paper and cut them out.
Glue each hand to the paper over lapping just a little bit. Make sure you arch the
hands. Draw a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow hands, if desired.
Paper Bag Windsock
Take a white paper bag and decorated it with markers and crayons. Then, cut a whole in the
bottom of the bag. Tied string to each side of the whole in the bottom. They glued crepe
paper of many different colors around the rim of the bag.
Gift for a Loved One
Paint a sun and glue a small picture of child in center of sun. Glue a magnet on the back
Make a book with pictures of clothes needed when
going out in the rain. For instance on one page write the word jacket, next page: rain
boots, and so on. Also have the children make a picture of themselves playing in the rain.
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