WIND PAINTING

• Let your child sprinkle a few drops of tempera paint onto a paper plate.\
• Then help your child take the plate outside and hold it so the wind can blow the paint drops all around to make a Wind Painting.
• If the wind is not blowing, you could show your child how to create her own wind by blowing air through a straw onto the paint. 
    

WINDSOCKS

• Let your children decorate small cardboard tubes by gluing on torn pieces of colorful magazine pictures. 
• Then, help them glue several long pieces of ribbon or thin strips of crepe paper to one end of their tubes.
• At the other end, make a hanger by poking two holes near the rim and tying on string or yarn.
• Have your children hang their windsocks outdoors to see which way the wind is blowing their ribbons.

Alternatives:  Have children decorate their windsocks with marking pens, crayons or stickers.

FUN FANS

• Give each of your children a thin, white paper plate.
• Set out some crayons, or markers and invite the children to decorate both sides of their plates any way they wish.
• When they have finished, staple or glue a jumbo craft stick to the back of each plate for a handle.
• Show your children how to wave the fans back and forth to create a breeze (or wind).
   

WIND CHIMES
 You will need an 8-inch twig for each of your children.

• Set out the twigs, 10-inch pieces of wire and small metal washers.
• Show your children how to wrap the end of piece of wire around a washer and the other end around the twig.
• Have each child attach three to five washers to his or her twig, making sure the washers are about 1 inch apart.
• Add a yarn hanger to each completed twig.
• Hang the chimes outside.
• Let your children listen to the sounds their wind chimes make on a windy day.

WIND WALK
On the next windy day, take your children outside for a walk.

• Together, look for all the things the wind is moving around.
• Can you see a flag blowing in the wind?
• Is there a leaf being pushed along the road?
• Are the tree branches swaying?
• Stand still for a moment and enjoy the feeling of the wind blowing across your face.
• Help children understand that even though the wind is invisible, we can still see the effects of the wind.

BE THE WIND

• Let your child pretend to be the wind.
• Place several cotton balls on a table. 
• Have your child sit or kneel so that he can blow across the top of the table, sending the cotton balls off the table with his breath.

Alternative:  With two children, have them stand on opposite sides of a small table.  Play a game to see who can blow the most balls off the opposite side of the table in one minute.

WIND LANGUAGE

WIND BOOK

• Have your children help you make a list of all the ways that wind helps us.
• Later, let each child choose one of these ways to illustrate.
• Combine all the children’s pictures into a group wind book.
• Have children take turns reading the book to the group. (Telling what is happening in each picture).

I SEE THE WIND RHYME
Teach your children the following rhyme.

I see the wind when the leaves dance by,
I see the wind when the clothes wave “Hi!”
I see the wind when the trees bend low,
I see the wind when the flags all blow.

I see the wind when the kites fly high,
I see the wind when the clouds float by.
I see the wind when it blows my hair,
I see the wind ‘most everywhere!
                                                Jean Warren
                                                © Warren Publishing House

WIND SCIENCE ACTIVITIES CAN BE FOUND AT THE DISCOVERY STATION – SPRING DISCOVERIES.

WIND SONGS CAN BE FOUND AT THE MUSIC STATION – SPRING SONGS – WIND SONGS OR KITE SONGS.