Preschool Clouds Wind and Rain Theme

Below you can find tons of fun and engaging Cloud Wind and Rain Activities! Pick and choose the activities for your lesson or download a free copy of our Cloud, Wind, and Rain Preschool Lesson Plan to save you time!

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Planning your Clouds Wind and Rain Theme

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Suggested items to add to your Art Space

For this theme consider adding extra construction paper, crayons, and markers in a variety of blue colors, along with the colors of the rainbow to your art space. 

Invitation to build a kite

"Provide your students materials to build a kite. Pre-cut diamond shapes out of plastic tablecloths. Provide decorating materials, and yarn or streamer for tails. See our tutorial on our blog

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Create Clouds

Provide blue paper, cotton balls and glue for children to create clouds of their choice. 

Make Raindrop Art

Set out an invitation to explore crayon resist art to make a rainy day picture! See my  Crayon Resist Process Art Tutorial for all the details.

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*Create a Raindrop Sun catcher

This simple Raindrop Sun-catcher craft compliments this theme well. This craft encourages children to explore color through light. For details on how to complete this craft visit my Heart Suncatcher Craft Tutorial blog post. 

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Cloud Craft

Invite your preschooler to make this fun cloud craft! 
See the details in my Cloud Craft Tutorial.

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More Ideas:

Rainy day art from Little Page Turners

Weather Inspired Snack by Hart 2 Hart

​DIY Newspaper Kite from Living Well Spending Less

*​Create a News Station

A Meteorologist is an important person who works at the new station. Set up your own News Station our purchase ours here.

Children can take on the role of meteorologist in which they will talk about the weather and make weather predictions.
 Add Maps, Microphones, pointers, Meteorologist Dress Up clothes, a Video Camera, Photos of different types of weather etc.

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Our set includes forecast information, and other weather related printables to make it easier for your meteorologist to do their important job!

Rainy Weather Dress Up

Add rainy weather dress up clothes: boots/coats, umbrellas, “puddles”(blue paper) kites, pinwheels.

Rainy Day Small World Play

Place cotton ball and batting clouds, along with felt clouds in your construction area.
​Add blue fleece or silk scarves for children to create rain storms. 

Puddle Small World Play

Bring small world play outdoors. Provide a variety of toy animals like rubber ducks to play in puddles with.

Build a Storm Shelter

Challenge your preschooler to build a storm shelter.
Encourage your preschooler to plan ahead; what type of storm will this shelter be for? What challenges might the storm bring? After building take some time to reflect...imagine a storm strikes, would the shelter hold up? What kind of storm conditions will the shelter protect against?
This activity can be done with large light blocks made from foam or cardboard, cardboard boxes or make it into a small world building invitation to challenge children to construct on a smaller scale.

​What to Wear Weather Match-up​

Explore weather vocabulary while matching appropriate clothing for each type of clothing with this game included in the PKPF Clouds, Wind, and Rain Activity Pack

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*Raindrop Letter Match

Practice letter case recognition with this hands-on letter rain drop activity included in the PKPF  Clouds, Wind, & Rain Activity Pack 

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Cloud Writing Tray

Write the letters in clouds (whipped cream or shaving cream). Use flashcards or our Editable Name Worksheets for preschoolers to reference. 

Clouds Wind and Rain First Sound Clip Cards

Practice matching first sounds, with this set of clouds wind and rain clip cards from our Clouds Wind and Rain Activity pack.

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And Then it's Spring​ by Julie Fogliano
Rain by Robert Kalan
Kite Flying by Grace Lin
Mushroom in the Rain ​by Mirra Ginsburg
I Am the Rain by John Paterson
W is for Wind: A Weather Alphabet by Pat Michaels
The Wind Blew  by Pat Hutchins

More Ideas:

Add  Weather Set felt board pieces and make up a fun Spring Weather story -The Frugal Girls

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​Raindrop Counting Mats

Ten frames are a precursor to learning place value and giving a visual for number sense for preschoolers. You can use these mats in a variety of ways. The educator that shared this photo printed them on vellum​ to use on the light table and added translucent counters! 
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​Raindrop Count and Clip Cards

This is an engaging activity for preschoolers in which they refine their fine motor skills while practicing one-to-one correspondence and counting skills. This activity can be found in our  Clouds, Wind, & Rain Activity Pack ​

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*Umbrella count and roll

Roll the die and  look at the number or count the number of raindrops you rolled. Then place the matching amount of raindrops on the umbrella mat. This counting mat is including in our Clouds, Wind, and Rain Activity Pack!

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Set up a rain gauge to measure rain fall.

Check the rain gauge through out the week to measure rain fall. If you do not have any rain this week or just want some extra practice, bring the rain gauge indoors and make your own rain.

Color Rain Drop Sorting

Practice sort the rain drops by color, using this activity featured in our clouds wind and rain activity pack. As an alternative, you can also sort pom pom "rain drops" or even squeeze colored water using an eye dropper, into different colored cups.

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Counting Clouds Outside

Go outside and count the clouds in the sky

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Soap Cloud Experiment

Your preschooler will love this soap cloud experiment that can be done using simple low cost items found around your home.

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Study the Water Cycle

My Water Cycle Science Activities Pack includes step-by-step instructions for conducting scientific explorations with preschoolers. Engage in these explorations with or without the included reproducibles for recording the experience. 

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Weather in a Jar

Rain in a Jar

Have you ever wanted to "catch" a cloud? With this fun experiment your students will be able to observe how clouds (and fog) are formed.

Supplies Needed:
Clear glass jar with lid
⅓ cup hot water
Ice
Hairspray, aerosol works best

Pour the hot water into the jar, swirling it around to warm the sides of the jar Place the lid upside down on top of the jar Fill the lid with ice and let rest for 20-30 seconds Once you see condensation forming, remove the lid and spray the hairspray inside the jar Replace the lid upside down with the ice still in it Watch the cloud form inside the jar Once the cloud has built up, remove the lid and watch the cloud rise from the jar Make note of your observations throughout the experiment.

Rain Storm in a Jar

Sheena W. of Building Blocks Preschool shared this photo of a raining cloud in a jar.  Fill the jar about halfway with water, then top off with shaving cream.  Provide liquid water colors in blue (or any other colors desired).  Encourage children to use an eye dropper to drop the liquid watercolor on top of the shaving cream. Children can observe the watercolors dripping through the shaving cream and into the water at the bottom of the jar. 

Tornado in Bottle

Your students will love observing a tornado in a bottle! You can make one, by purchasing this connector, or by making your own.

If you want to make your own, you'll need a large clear tall bottle (VOSS bottles work great, or something similar to these). Next, add a squirt of dish soap, and food coloring/glitter if you are desire.  Now you are ready! Close the lid, and rapidly move the bottle in a circular motion, until the tornado forms.

The tornado you are observing in your bottle is  caused by the water in the bottle spinning towards the center of the bottle, or vortex.

This activity demonstrates "centripetal force" – which is a force moving in a circular path that acts on a liquid/object and pulls it inward, towards the center of it's path.

Wind Exploration

Set up a wind exploration station outside. Add windsocks, wind chimes and windmills for children to observe. As an alternative, if you don't have any wind, you can use straws or a small handheld fan.

Warm Air, Cold Air Experiment

Learn more about hot and cold air with this easy experiment. Get the details from this video  warm air cold air experiment from MSC Science on Youtube.

More Ideas:

​Making rain sensory activity from Tales of a Teacher Mom

Provider Water play items that simulate Rain (colanders) from Epic Childhood

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Sensory Play from I Can Teach My Child

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Gross Motor Preschool Activities

Puddle Jumping

Puddle jumping is an excellent way to work large muscles! 
If messy isn't feasible for you or there simply aren't any puddles around try creating your own!
Outdoors you could draw "puddles" on the sidewalk using chalk. Indoors you could use blue fabric or pillows. 

Wind Dance

Dance in the wind using scarves or ribbons! Check out our Dance Ribbon Tutorial to make your own! How does the wind affect the ribbons?

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Fine Motor Preschool Activities

Hang Felt Clouds

Cut clouds out of felt, hang string and invite preschoolers to hang the clouds. This would be a great addition for small world play as well. 

*Kite Clip Cards

Kites come in all shapes and sizes! 
This activity not only supports math skill development, but also hand-eye coordination and finger strength when paired with clothespins. 
​This activity is included in the PKPF  Clouds, Wind, & Rain Activity Pack 

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Spring Fine Motor Sweeping Mats

These sweeping mats are a super fun way for preschoolers to work on fine motor development and focus. 
Laminate the mat, add a bit of colored sand and a paintbrush and let the fun begin!
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Cloud Pick Up Activity

Pick up clouds (cotton balls) using clothes pins or tweezers. Place them on a blue felt or paper "sky".

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Learn to dress for the weather

Knowing what to wear for different types of weather is an important life skill. Give your student a chance to explore (and try on) different types of outerwear. You can gather: rain jackets, rain coats, boots, mittens, sunglasses, hats, and more! It's also a great week to go outside and practice opening and closing an umbrella.

Play a rainy day group game-Group Activity

Heads up seven up is the perfect rainy day game.

Activities for a Rainy Day- Shadow Puppets

What rainy day game do you normally play at home or at school. Do you make shadow puppets with a flashlight and your hand/fingers?

What do you see in the clouds?

Great time to get outdoors and look up at the sky. What do you see in the clouds? Lay on the ground outside and see if you can spot animals in the clouds. Point them out to your friends. Use the What Do You see in the Clouds matching game from our Clouds, Wind, and Rain activity pack as an extension. 

Take a walk in the rain together!

Get dressed for the weather. Practice putting on your rain boots, rain coat, and grab your umbrella.
It's time to take a walk in the rain! As you are walking discuss different things you see! Do you see raindrops falling in puddles or clinging to leaves? Do you see birds bathing?

Discuss Tornado/Weather Safety

Take some time this week to practice tornado drills, and discuss weather safety.

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Rain Sign-in Activity

Welcome your students to class with this engaging name recognition activity. Our attendance set includes a variety of themes for the whole year.

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