WIND CHIMES

• Hang a wind chime outside.
• Sit inside with your child. 
• Close your eyes and listen to the sound the wind chime makes.
• Can you tell by listening to the chimes if the wind is blowing gently or wildly?
• Encourage your child to listen for the wind chimes to tell her when it is windy outside?

FLY A KITE

• Buy a simple, inexpensive kite to take to a large, windy area.
• Help your child put the kite in the air. 
• Talk about the pull of the wind on the kite. 
• What happens to the kite when the wind dies down a little?
• How long can she keep the kite in the air?

 
FLY A PAPER PLANE
Paper airplanes are a fun way to help your child to begin to understand gravity and air currents.

• Show your preschooler how to make a simple paper airplane.  (Easy directions can be found on-line.)
• Let your child decorate his plane if he wishes.
• Add a paper clip to the nose of his plane.
• Have him practice throwing his plane inside and outside.
• How far did it fly?  Did it fly better indoors or outside?
  

BOTTLE BALLOON

• Collect a glass bottle and a small balloon.
• Blow up and deflate the balloon several times to make it easier to inflate.
• Put the deflated balloon over the top of the glass bottle.
• While your children watch, place the bottle in a deep pan of hot water.
• What happens to the balloon?  (It starts to fill with air because the hot water in the pan warmed up the air in the bottle, and warm air rises.)
• Then place the bottle in cold water.  What happens?  (The balloon deflates because the air is now cold and sinking.)

Additional Wind Activities can be found at the Theme Station – Spring Themes – Wind.