Happy Steam Challenge: Petty Cloud & Rainbow Blow Painting
November 30, 2018
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Winter fourth dimension is filled with a make of weather condition where nosotros alive inward California! Sometimes it is freezing inward the morning time together with and thus it is 75 degrees inward the afternoon. For the past times few weeks we've had constant rain, which has led to tons of snowfall upwards inward the mountains nearby. We accept been keeping busy with a lot of indoor boredom busters. Our kids accept loved making pelting gauges together with chatting nearly the weather. (This post service contains Amazon Affiliate links)
We are kicking off a novel calendar week of Virtual Book Club for Kids together with nosotros are spotlighting Little Cloud past times Eric Carle. We volition pass the whole calendar week reading Weather themed books together with doing or thus uncomplicated crafts together with activities.
My kids spent yesterday eve making cotton fiber ball clouds inspired past times Little Cloud together with exploring their shapes. As the activeness progressed, they deviated into creating clouds with rainbows. The creative procedure was beautiful together with it was fun to come across the dissimilar ways they chose to paint! My favorite was blow painting! We've done it before, but rainbow blow epitome was fifty-fifty to a greater extent than fun!
Making cotton fiber ball clouds is an tardily activeness if you lot accept gratuitous time, glue, together with a bunch of cotton fiber balls.
If your kids are similar mine together with similar rainbows, blow epitome is a fun activeness to yoke with your cotton fiber ball clouds! You tin blow white pigment all over or purpose rainbow similar nosotros did!
MATERIALS FOR RAINBOW BLOW PAINTING:
- paint inward rainbow colors (we used washable Crayola paint)
- cup of water
- cup for each pigment color
- spoons
- cardstock
- cotton balls
- glue
- straws
DIRECTIONS FOR RAINBOW BLOW PAINTING:
Put each type of pigment inward a piffling cup. Mix with a piffling H2O to sparse each pigment color.
Glue cotton fiber balls onto your newspaper to brand clouds. As you lot read Little Cloud, verbalise nearly your favorite cloud designs together with purpose them every bit your inspiration.
Next drib pigment onto your newspaper using a spoon. Use the straw to blow the pigment across your newspaper to commencement your rainbow. The thinner the paint, the farther it volition blow. Have kids exam blowing high, low, hard, soft, etc. every bit they practise it.
After you lot endeavor ane color, add together a spoonful of a dissimilar color together with proceed adding until you lot accept all of the colors of the rainbow! We tally every bit much pigment on our newspaper every bit nosotros could!
Some clouds don't fifty-fifty withdraw a rainbow, they tin but accept a blow painted sun!
All of the creations were beautiful, but the procedure was the most fun! I loved watching a spark of curiosity plough into a colorful creation. I loved watching gears plough inward piffling heads land kids explored the materials I had ready out.
I had thus much fun creating amongst with my kids together with getting a chip messy! After all of my reminders to hold their sleeves pulled upwards together with shirts away from the table, I noticed that I had majestic pigment all downwardly my white shirt, sweater together with skirt! LOL. Next fourth dimension I withdraw to wearing clothing to a greater extent than appropriately for painting! Good matter nosotros were using washable paint!
Have you lot tried blow epitome before? Do you lot accept whatever other favorite ways to practise clouds or brand rainbows?
Our Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids co-hosts accept a lot of fun weather condition themed activities together with crafts for WEATHER WEEK! Check out the ideas below past times but clicking on each link to come across to a greater extent than details!
Don't forget to cheque out or thus of our favorite Weather Week books below every bit well, including our featured book, Little Cloud past times Eric Carle.
Lightning Leap Weather Alphabet Activity (with gratuitous printable) - Preschool Powol Packets
Recording together with Graphing Weather - Rainy Day Mum
Counting Raindrops Math Game
Sensory Activity- Blowing Clouds with a Straw JDaniel4's Mom
Drawing clouds inward shaving cream- Views From a Step Stool
Weather I Spy Printable-The Moments at Home
Weather Tracking Printables - Mama Smiles
STEAM Challenge: Little Cloud & Rainbow Blow Painting
Rain Comes Down Song with Hand Movements from My Storytime Corner
Inkblot Cloud Shapes- Teach Beside Me
WEATHER WEEK BOOKS
Hello, World! Weather by Jill McDonald
The Cloud Book by Tomie dePaola
Oh Say Can You Say What's the Weather Today?: All About Weather (Cat inward the Hat's Learning Library) by Tish Rabe
What Will the Weather Be? (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) by Lynda DeWitt
Maisy's Wonderful Weather Book by Lucy Cousins
Franklin together with the Thunderstorm by Paulette Bourgeois
Just a Thunderstorm by Mercer Mayer
The Rain Came Down by David Shannon
Let It Rain by Maryann Cocca-Leffler
Like a Windy Day by Frank Asch
Come On, Rain! by Karen Hesse
Rain, Rain, Go Away by Caroline Jayne Church
Elmer’s Weather past times David McKee
Clouds past times Anne Rockwell
It Looked Like Spilt Milk past times Charles Shaw
