Read the book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs then let your children make their own weather service with pasta Put small squares of tissue paper in a Zip Loc Bag. Put a straw in each bag and zip the bag shut. Let your children blow in the bag and see what happens to the tissue paper. Ask your children what they observed when they blew into the bag. Explain to them this is like the wind outside blowing paper. To further explain this put other tissue paper squares in front of a fan and turn it on. Have your children cut out raindrops from paper. Next have them sponge paint these with blue paint while you cut out a large cloud shape from white butcher paper. Have them decorate the cloud with black handprints Hang this along with yellow lightning on your bulletin board. You can use a title like "We Are Fun Even On A Rainy Day" Cut or have your children cut a large red circle. Then have them cut a slightly smaller orange circle. Then cut a yellow circle slightly smaller than the orange. And so on for green, violet, indigo, and blue. This makes a cute bulletin board border Take your children outside and show them everything in the sky (clouds, birds, telephone lines, the sun, etc) then have them draw the sky. Make a teddy bear bulletin board. Make different changes of clothes for the bear. Change its clothes when the weather changes. Use the following poem on the board:

It's hot, hot, hot in the sun, sun, sun.
What should teddy wear to play in the sun?
It's cold, cold, cold in the snow, snow, snow.
What should Teddy wear to play in the snow?
It's wet, wet, wet in the rain, rain, rain.
What should Teddy wear to play in the Rain?
It's dark, dark, dark at night, night, night.
What should Teddy wear to go to bed at night?

Have your children sponge paint strips of construction paper. Attach multi-colored streamers to this and hang outside your window. Let your children watch the streamers blow in the wind. Pour milk into bowls for your children. Add different colors of food coloring to the milk. Give the kids paint brushes and cookie cutters. Let them paint the bread with colored milk and cut out their favorite shapes. When their done you can toast like usual. Purchase clear plastic cups, Make all six colors of Jell-O: cherry, orange, lemon, lime, berry blue, and grape. After the Jell-O has set spoon one spoonful of each flavor into clear cup. Top with a cloud of whip cream you have an eadible rainbow. Give each child a small pile of Fruit Loop cereal. Have your children sort the colors, then string them on a yarn necklace to wear and eat the rest of the day. During your weather theme play different weather CDs for your children Some CDs are:

• Rainforest Sounds
• Storm Sounds
• Wind

About Four days before needed or as a group, chop small portions of candle wax coloring put them in bable oil (it takes about 4 days to melt into the baby oil). Once the mixture is melted, color water using food coloring. Next add colored baby oil to the bottom 1/2 of the bottle and the colored water the the top 1/2. Seal the bottles and shake. The colors will mix and then separate again and again. Blue and Yelow Works really well

Alternate Method:
Color vegetable oil with powdered tempra and add to a water bottle. Color water with food coloring and pour into the bottle. Colors will mix to form secondary color when shaken, then separate again when undisturbed. Tip: Super glue the top onto bottle to prevent opening.

• Meringue Drop Cookies (look just like clouds)
• Rainbow Jell-O
• Rice Cake Suns (add yellow colored crème cheese (use food coloring))

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