- Take the children outdoors when sun is not overhead and lie down on the grass. What do you see up in the sky? Talk about everything seen, and then concentrate on clouds. Shapes, colors, size, imagined texture, movement. Can you touch them? Why? Go out on several days and compare similarities and differences.
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- The clouds that we can see are made of billions of tiny drops of water (or ice) sticking together. When they get so heavy with water drops that they can’t stick together any more, then some drops fall down to earth, and that is called rain (or hail, or sleet, or snow etc) Usually clouds are white, but when the get thick and heavy, they look light or dark grey.
- Have you seen clouds that are any other color? What do you think might make that color? (Sunrise, sunset reflections, rainbows)
- Clouds shapes are usually one of two main types – flat and straight (stratus) or piled up (cumulus). Do some cloud shapes look like other things you have seen?
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- Cloud collage on blue or grey paper. Can use cotton balls or cut paper clouds, glitter, splashed paint drops, cellophane strips, fingertip printed raindrops, sun shape, birds, airplanes etc.
- Pretend you are the wind, blowing clouds (cotton balls) around the table or floor.
- Put a spoonful of thick white paint in the middle of a folded piece of blue or black paper, and press closed. Instant symmetry!
- Use white computer paper to tear cloud shapes – long and flat (stratus), billowing (cumulus) and whatever shape you want. Glue them on blue paper to make a sky. Add other sky things.
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