20 of the Best Weather Activities for Preschool Kids
Are you looking for some fun, hands-on weather activities for your preschool kids? I have lots of ideas to help you teach your kids about different types of weather. Let’s take a look at my favorite weather activities for preschool kids.
Perfect for your weather unit, I know you and your kids are going to have so much fun with these weather-themed activity ideas.
How to Teach Weather to Preschoolers
There are many exciting ways to teach kids about weather and weather changes. From dramatic play weather stations and books to craft projects and science experiments. Here are some fun preschool activities and ideas for all kinds of learners that you can add to your science center.
Weather Activities for Preschool – Rain Activities
Rain-themed Sensory Table – Add water, some strainers or colanders, and little plastic people or animals to your sensory table to simulate a rainy day. Kids make rain with the strainers, and they can also experiment with materials that will keep the animals dry. They will love this weather sensory play experience.
Rain Gauges – Make rain gauges by adding some measuring strips to plastic containers. Use them for fun activities in your sensory toble.
Rain Cloud in a Jar – Create a rain cloud in a jar activity by placing a sponge on top of a glass jar and adding drops of water to the sponge cloud until a rain drop is formed.
Rain Cloud Craft – I love this fun fine motor rain activity by Gift of Curiosity.
Rain Making Station – Young children can explore clouds and rain in a sensory fashion with this rain making station by Teach Preschool featuring water and cotton balls.
Weather Activities for Preschool – Wind Activities
Wind Testing Center – Looking for some super simple hands-on experiments? Here is a great science activity to explore the fun topic of the wind. Test how different materials react to wind. This testing center is part of my weather station dramatic play area.
Tape some ribbon, streamers, yarn, and fabric strips to a small dowel rod. Young learners can hold the sticks in front of a wind machine (a fan)
Windsock Observation Area – Add a windsock or wind chimes outside a window so that your kids can make weather science observations on a daily basis.
Plastic Bag Kites – Kids can capture are with super simple and super cheap plastic bag kites by Play Teach and Repeat.
Pinwheels – Take pinwheels outside on a windy day to study wind direction and speed.
Winter Weather Activities
Measure the snow. Add some measuring strips to a sensory table filled with a snow-like material so that kids can measure the depth of the snow.
Snow Sensory Table – A winter-themed sensory bin or table is my favorite, and kids always have a great time playing with it. You can make snow with fake snow, torn paper, cotton balls, white pom poms, baking soda, etc.
Dramatic Play Activities
Weather Station – Your kids will have a blast when you set up a weather station dramatic play center. This is a great way to introduce science in a playful way!
Your little meteorologist will enjoy predicting different types of weather and delivering a weather forecast to their followers.
Weather Chart
This weather chart is part of the weather center dramatic play center set. In addition to using it in the dramatic play area, you can use it at circle time as a daily weather activity.
Weather Theme Art and Craft Projects
Printable Craft Activities – You will find some cute weather-related crafts in these printable fine motor activities. This beautiful rainbow is a perfect spring craft for your kids that can help your kids learn all the colors of the rainbow. Plus, the activities were designed to help your kids build fine motor skills.
My favorite crafts are the rainbow craft and the sun craft. All the crafts have the option of printing as a one-page not-prep option, or you can print the pieces on colored paper or construction paper.
Umbrella Name Craft – We all know the rhyme…. April showers bring May flowers. You can celebrate the transition of seasons while working on literacy and fine motor skills with this cute name craft. Kids can work on simple cutting, tracing lines, and even hole punching.
Rainbow Name Craft – If you like rainbows, you’ll love this similar rainbow name craft. This spring name craft is perfect for St. Patrick’s Day
Paint with the Wind – Here’s a great process art activity that is so much fun. Kids can observe how air can move things as they create blow paintings with straws.
Paint with Rain – Using spray bottles is an excellent hand strengthening activity. This spray bottle painting technique can be adapted to be used as a weather art activity.
Staple some bleeding tissue paper to the top of white piece of paper. Use a spray bottle to spray rain on the tissue paper to see what happens.
Make a rainbow version as a fun St. Patrick’s Day craft. Here’s a video with a tutorial to show you how to make a spray bottle rainbow.
Rain Cloud Inkblots – This rain cloud inkblot activity by Teach Beside Me is a great process art activity to do with your kids after reading Little Cloud by Eric Carle.
Weather Books
Need a weather-related book suggestion? There are many fiction and non-fiction books that will enhance your study of weather concepts. Check out my post about weather books to find a list of the best books for preschoolers.
Weather Movement Activities
Here are some fun weather-related activities. These songs with movements are a perfect addition to your weather lesson plans.
Weather Song by Patty Shukla
Singing in the Rain by The Learning Station
Drip Drop Rain by Dance’n Beats
Weather Song for Kids: The Sun Comes Up! by Dream Kids English
Snowman Freeze by The Learning Station
Additional Science Activities
I hope you found some fun preschool weather activities for preschool kids that you are going to try out.
Check out the blog post below for more science ideas and fun activities for your young students.
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