Our Weather Day

Activities:

Snowflake shirt negative imprint with Elmer's glue. We haven't soaked them in warm water yet to remove the glue but we can see the snowflake through the paint so it looks good so far.
http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/let-it-snow-t-shirt-674877/

Tornado in a bottle:
http://www.windows2universe.org/teacher_resources/tornado_edu.html

Squishy painting of the sun:
http://mrskarensclass.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Paint on a circle of poster board, squirts of paint and plastic wrap. Squish around the paint under the plastic wrap and then move the circle onto "sky colored" paper. We used the q-tips to just drag the paint from the circle to make the rays. We should have used more yellow. My daughter's is in the picture. She is the only one who had to have a pink sky rather than blue.

We made lightning as stated in previous post. I was thankful I practiced the day before so I was better prepared to do it before I had an audience of wiggly children.

We made fog:
http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/activities.html
It took a few tries and two matches at a time to create enough heat.

We made it rain through clouds of shaving cream. See the preschool blog link and see the bottom. Our picture of it is below. If the clouds were too thick it took way too much shaving cream. So we didn't waste anything, we scooped out the colored shaving cream and made pictures using it like finger-paint.

We read a book called "Why does it rain" by Mike Kelly. It talks about all types of weather.

We made steam clouds using a tea kettle and very carefully saw how when we touch the gas coming out of the tea kettle (high up from the tea kettle its is only warm but be careful not to get burned) our hands then had water on them. We explained the water cycle with pictures and tied it into this experiment.

Our lunch was tornado soda (it was an off-brand I found), pizza clouds and pineapple and orange suns.
Pizza clouds are mozzarella string cheese, pizza sauce and mini pepperonis rolled up in crescent rolls. The kids helped make them. Suns are as seen in the provided picture of pineapple and oranges.

Last of all, we let then play in the rain in play clothes and boots. Yes, it really is that warm right now in Louisiana in January.