Help even the young ย ones begin to grasp the concept of the water cycle. ย Of course you can add in all the official terms, but we just used everyday words, such as rain. ย We did this as part of our
water learning theme.
Materials:
-Some cotton balls (I actually used the fluffy stuff inside a jewelry box because I didn’t have cotton ball on hand: ย cotton batting from your sewing supplies would also work ย )
– A shallow dish filled with a bit of water.
Pretend that the dish is a lake (my son wanted one of his animals to swim in the lake so we indulged that for a while too). ย “Float” some clouds over the lake. ย Let your child feel the dry, fluffy cotton ball clouds. ย Explain that when the sun gets really hot some of the water from the lake goes up into the sky and makes clouds. ย Gently touch the clouds to the water and then raise them back up into the sky. ย The clouds are now heavy and dripping (raining!!). ย Where is this rain going?… back into the lakes and rivers.
Extension: ย Once your clouds have dried off feel free to glue them onto a picture with a lake and or vegetation below and re-enforce the concepts learned above. ย If you don’t want to draw your own picture use one like
this.
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This project was part of our Water learning theme. ย Click the link below for similar activities:
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