Weather Unit: Wind Vane

We made wind vanes today. They are super easy and you should have all the supplies in your home!

                   

Supplies needed:

(for 2 wind vanes)

4 paper plates

scissors

markers/crayons

glitter, feathers, sequence, beads etc

2 straws

2 long pins

2 pencils with the eraser still intact

card stock

play dough

STEP 1: Take a paper plate and mark N, S, E and W on the correct sides.

STEP 2: Let the children decorate!

STEP 3:

Make arrows tips and ends. Mine were between 2-2.5 inches in length. Let the kids cut them out and decorate!

STEP 4: Poke a long pin through the straw at the middle point.

STEP 5: Push the pin onto the top of the pencil eraser. Stick the pencil through the middle of the paper plate. On the end of the pencil, put a big ball of play dough on the bottom in order to stabilize the pencil and prevent it from falling over.

STEP 6: glue the two paper plates together.

STEP 7: Go outside and try it out!

Great video we found helpful! Enjoy!

Weather Unit: Wind socks

With lots of wind blowing around, we decided to make wind socks!

Materials:

Sheets of foam. (we used Light blue, dark blue, orange and yellow.) 4 per child

Sheet of felt (we used light blue) 1/2 per child is enough

Google eyes

Feathers

Ribbon (multiple colours add a special touch!

Hot glue gun or white glue (it will just take a longer time for it to dry if you use white glue)

For detailed instructions check out this website!

http://www.activitytv.com/880-wind-sock

Weather unit: Will the wind blow it?

What a windy day it was today…perfect day to talk about the wind. I gave the boys each a basket and told them to collect 10 items that were smaller than their hand. We created a poster that had two sides to it: a “yes” side and a “no” side. We pulled out the hair blower and each boy got a turn to try and blow their object across the room. They absolutely LOVED trying this. It was fun to try and guess which object would be “blown” over to the other side. Even mommy got a couple wrong!!
Some ideas for objects are located below. My youngest needed a little bit of prompting, but he definitely got the hang of it at the end!!
This activity was a success for sure! Even at bedtime when we were talking about the day, they both had big smiles on their faces and told me it was the best part of the day!! Home school success! Have a good one!