20 of the Best Weather Activities for Preschool Kids

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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.

Weather activities for preschool - The title images shoes several rain gauges.

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.

plastic animals in a sensory table with water and a strainer.  This is an example of weather activities for preschool.

Rain Gauges – Make rain gauges by adding some measuring strips to plastic containers. Use them for fun activities in your sensory toble.

a wind sock as an example of weather activities for preschool

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)

study the wind in a weather station dramatic play area

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.

a wind sock as an example of weather activities for preschool

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.

A pinwheel is shown in grass - an example of weather activities for preschool.

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.

measure snow in the weather station dramatic play area for your preschoolers

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.

Winter sensory table with fake snow and toy polar bears - an example of weather activities for preschool

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.

how to set up a weather station dramatic play area complete with a weather computer

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.

record temperature in your weather station dramatic play center

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.

a printable rainbow craft with a hole punch, scissors, and a glue stick. This is an example of the benefits of crafts for preschoolers and a weather activity idea.

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.

printable space theme crafts and fine motor activities

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.

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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.

water and color dripping down the paper with a spray bottle painting activity for kids.

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.

Are you looking for fun ways to introduce weather to preschoolers?  Check out his list of the best weather activities for preschool kids.  From weather music, books, arts & crafts, to weather stations and experiments, your kids will love these fun activity ideas.  Perfect for your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and special ed classroom.  Help your kids learn about storms, snow, fall, rain, spring, summer, and wind.  Click to learn more.

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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