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SKY ART
Invite your children to try
one or more of the activities below.
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Dip flat sponges cut in cloud shapes into white
tempera paint. Press the shapes onto blue paper
to make cloud prints. |
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Finger paint gray, stormy sky pictures on finger-paint
paper. |
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Paint various kinds of sky pictures—sunny skies,
cloudy skies, rainy skies, snowy skies—at the easel. |
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GROUP SKY SCENE
Set out a large piece of white paper, and let your children
paint it sky blue. Give them cotton balls to gently pull
apart and glue onto the “sky” for clouds. Then give them
construction paper cutouts of other things that can be
seen in the sky, such as a sun, flying birds, airplanes,
and helicopters. Have the children glue or tape the cutouts
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SKY COUNTERS
Give each of your children
a set of five large blue index cards that you have numbered
from 1 to 5. Also give each child 15 airplane stickers
or bird stickers. Help the children name the numerals
on their cards and then attach matching numbers of airplanes
or birds. When they have finished, encourage them to use
their cards for counting practice. Provide zipper bags
for storing their counters, if you wish.
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CLOUD
BOOK
| Invite each of
your children to tear a piece of white paper into
a freeform cloud shape and glue it onto a piece
of light blue construction paper. Ask the children
to take turns completing this sentence: “My cloud
looks like….” As they do so, write each child’s
response at the bottom of his or her paper. Help
the children sign their names to their cloud pictures.
Then fasten the pictures together with a construction
paper cover to make a Cloud Book to place in your
group’s library corner. |
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SKY FLIP PUPPET
For each of your children,
staple together a 5-inch square of light blue paper and
a 5-inch square of black paper to represent the daytime
and nighttime sky. Give each child a yellow sun shape
and wisps of cotton to glue onto his or her blue daytime
sky, and a white crescent moon shape plus several star
shapes to glue onto his or her black nighttime sky. Attach
a large craft stick to the bottom of each child’s squares
to make a puppet. Let the children flip their puppets
back and forth while telling stories or singing songs
about the daytime and nighttime sky.
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SKY
WEATHER CHART
| Make a weekly
or monthly chart containing a square for each day, and
hang the chart on a wall at your children’s eye level.
From construction paper, cut out weather markers such
as these: yellow sun shapes, white cloud shapes, gray
cloud shapes, raindrop shapes, and snowflake shapes.
Each day, go outside with the children to view the sky
and talk about what it looks like. When you return to
your room, let the children glue or tape an appropriate
weather marker (or markers) onto the day’s square on
your weather chart. Continue until your chart is complete. |
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IN THE SKY
Tune: “Frere Jacques”
When I look up, when I look up
In the sky, in the sky,
I can see the sun,
I can see the clouds,
Oh so high, oh so high.
When I look up, when I look up
In the sky, in the sky,
I can see the moon,
I can see the stars,
Oh so high, oh so high.
Encourage your children to continue singing about other things
they can see in the sky.
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BLUE SKY SNACKS
Set out a small clear-plastic cup for each of your children.
Make blue gelatin, pour it into the plastic cups, and allow
it to set in the refrigerator. At snacktime, invite each child
to spoon a white whipped-topping “cloud” onto his or her blue
gelatin “sky” before eating.
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