| Activity Ideas: Art: Decorate Umbrellas Cut a large umbrella shape from poster board. Decorate with crayons, markers, watercolor paints, and assorted collage materials, such as rickrack, stickers, yarn, ribbon, buttons. or other materials. Cut a handle from construction paper. You may want to hang the umbrella from the ceiling or display it in a window. 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. Raindrop Hats Make hats from newsprint and have the child decorate with blue paint or rain and rainbow stickers. Raindrop People Give the children a piece of white paper, and a blue raindrop shape. Have the children glue the raindrop onto the paper, and then draw a body as if the raindrop was a head. Drama Pretend to be rain. With your fingers, make them move rain falling down: lightly, heavier, heavier, softer (or the other way around). (You can do it on a table or book.) Pretend to be thunder. Make soft, louder, louder thunder. Games: Bean Bag Puddle Toss You need a hula hoop (the puddle) and some bean bags. You can either set up the hula hoop on it's side or on the ground. Have your child try to throw the bean bags into the puddle. Language: Spring Showers Spring Showers (Move like rain falling to the ground.) Flowers (Move like something growing from the ground.) Trees (Sway in the wind.) Bees (Buzz and fly.) Sun (Make a circle with arms.) Fun (Jump up and down.) Muck (Pretend to be stuck.) YUCK! Spring Showers Rain is falling from the sky. (flutter fingers down) Lightning flashes! Hide your eyes! (cover eyes with hands) Thunder rumbles in the clouds. (drum hands on thighs) Sometimes it is very loud! (cover ears with hands) When the storm is over, and puddles remain, (shape arms into a circle) It's time to take off my shoes again. (pretend to take shoes off) - Marie E. Cecchini Umbrellas Umbrella can be red Umbrella can be blue Umbrellas can be patterned With lots of colours too. Math: Weather Chart Each day for the month of chart the weather. Was it sunny, rainy, cold, warm. Ask your child for as many descriptive words as they can think of about the day!!! Sensory Blindfold Wear a blindfold to encourage the use of other senses. Feel, smell, and listen to the weather. |
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