Wind

Today's activities were based around wind.

Our first craft we made a kid sized wind sock out of a toilet paper roll, construction paper, and some leftover ribbon.

Avery decorated the paper as much as he wanted, and then we glued it to the toilet paper roll. Next we punched holes in the windsock to attach ribbons as the streamers. We also used a chopstick as the handle. It looks a little rough around the edges, but he LOVED it and had a blast playing with it in the yard today.

Next we made 'wind' paintings. I watered down some white tempera paint, and put globs of it on dark blue construction paper. Avery then blew through a straw, creating 'wind' to make funny shapes.

We tried blowing far away from the paper and very close to it to see the difference in how it spread the paint. And yes, some did get splattered across the table with BIG wind gusts... so maybe I watered down the tempera paint a little too much!

Next we played a game that I saw in a magazine a while back. We battled cotton balls!

Our playing field consisted of an old box from Costco and some decorations to make it (slightly) resemble a playing field. We put a cotton ball on the center line, and each of us had a straw to try and blow the cotton ball into the other person's goal. This held his attention a lot longer than I thought it would - after 30 minutes I was pretty done playing the game, but he still wanted to play :) So this one will stick around the house for a bit longer when we are looking for something to entertain us!