Weather science experiments are always a fun way to teach our kids a great lesson! ย  Kids learn so much more when they are involved, whether it is with a simple weather coloring sheet or a fun hands-on experiment!

10 weather science experiments

Make wind. ย  ย You can teach your children how wind and air pressure works with a ย few materials: a plastic bag, two sponges, a straw and a cotton ball.

Make it rain in a jar. ย This is so very easy! ย Take a vase filled with water. ย Put shaving cream on the very top and let the kids put blue food coloring ย (rain) on the shaving cream (clouds) and watch it drip into the water (air)

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Make a tornado. ย  Simply fill tall bottle with water and squirt in a small amount of non-concentrated dish soap. Cover tightly. ย Shake it up, give it a little roll with your wrist and see your tornado form!

Make a cloud- ย just ย place a bar of ivory soap in the microwave it for about 90 seconds and watch it expand! ย (careful, it will be hot!)

Make fog in a jar. ย  ย this is really fun! ย It does require a match and boiling water, so you will want to be careful with this one.

Make a tornado with two soda bottles and this connector found on amazon. ย  ย You just add water and connect the bottles. ย Twirl the bottles and watch them make a tornado ย (add some glitter for a little more fun!)

Make it rain inside – put boiling water into a vase or mason jar and place a bowl on top of the vase (acting as a lid). ย  Once it fills with vapor, put a few ice cubes into the bowl, changing the temperature of the bowl (the lid). ย  Now when the warm air hits the cold bowl, it will form water droplets and “rain” inside of your vase/jar. ย  Be patient with it – just like real rain, it takes a while to accumulate.

Let your kids make lightening! ย Just take an inflated balloon and rub it on your child’s hair or your hair, for two minutes. ย Immediately go into a dark room and touch a spoon. ย You can also make lightening with a pencil, styrofoam plate, thumbtack and pie tin.

Have a weather bath! ย Dye the bath water blue and give them fun bathtub weather stickers, ย a colander to let it ‘rain’, shaving cream for the clouds and let them have fun!

Make a paper cup anemometer to measure the wind. ย  You can take this outside on a windy day and again on a non-windy day and let your kids see when the wind is the strongest. ย I would document it on a chart for about a week’s time and see which day was the windiest and talk about how the days were similar on windy days or on non-windy days. ย (Was it rainy that day? ย Was it overcast? ย Was it cold? ย etc ยฆ)

Thanks for reading- now head off and do any of these fun weather activities with your kids (and have a blast!) ย 

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