Rainbows

We worked on rainbows today. We used watercolors to paint a rainbow on some butcher/freezer paper.

Then we ate a rainbow! Our cooking project this week included a trip to the store to find fruits with the same color as the rainbow. Fun, easy & healthy!

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!

More Clouds

Today we worked on crafting with clouds as part of Weather Week.

For our first craft we concentrated on the letter 'C' - for clouds!

First we cut a letter 'C' out of scrap cardboard. Then I had Avery paste it to a piece of 'sky' blue paper. Next he spread glue all over the 'C' and glued cotton balls to the 'C' to look like a cloud.

Then I wrote the word 'CLOUDS' on the top of the paper with a white crayon and asked Avery to write the word too - I thought he did an awesome job... especially since he often is intimidated to write out his words. It is a little hard to see in the photo.

Next we did some cloud paintings!

We used dark blue construction paper and painted clouds with a cotton ball using white tempera paint. I also had Avery spell out 'clouds' using sticky foam letters. He picked out the letters and put them in the right order by himself.

Clouds

Today was all about clouds.

I found this great picture showing the different types of clouds and what their names are.

And so, we spent a fun day cloud watching and trying to match the clouds up. We had a great weather day with lots of clouds - sunny to the west with high clouds, and very cloudy to the east by the mountains. I was amazed at how well a 3 year old could pronounce and recognize the various types of clouds.

Weather Chart

Each day this week we are going to record the weather. Here is an example weather chart like we are using. I like the idea of taking the temperature morning, afternoon, and evening. Also, if it happens to rain, we are going to put a small dish outside to measure the rain as well.