WINDY DAY FUN 

WIND STREAMERS

Cut out tissue (or crepe paper streamers) approximately 4 feet long. Multi-colors is fun, but same colored streamers are fine.
Stack together 4-6 streamers and wrap tape around the middle of the stack.
Give the streamer to your child and have him hold it in the middle over the tape.
Show him how to run with the streamers trailing out behind him.
 
SIMPLE WIND SOCKS
You will need a plastic tub lid for this (the kind that comes on top of margarine or whipped topping).
Take the lid and with a pair of scissors, cut out the middle of the lid, leaving the ring around the edge.
Next, cut out some one inch wide by 3 feet long tissue paper strips.
Show your child how to put some paste on the end of a paper strip.
Then wrap it around the ring and pressing the glue side to the rest of the strip.
Have your child attach 4-6 streamers around the ring.
Attach a 6” piece of string to two sides of the ring for a hanger.
Hang the simple wind sock in a tree, or hook, outside.
 
WIND CHIMES
Even toddlers like to listen to wind chimes. You will need a stick or twig, plus wire and small metal items, such as washers.
Attach a washer to a 2’ piece of wire, then attach the top of the wire to a stick.
Attach four or five hanging metal pieces. (Spoons can also be hung down.)
Finally, attach a 2 ½’ piece of wire, with both ends tied onto the stick for a handle.
Hang the Wind Chimes in a tree, or hook outside.
  
FLYING RIBBONS
Tie bright colored ribbons on the branches of a tree on a windy day.
Have your children notice the moving display of color.
Teach them the following rhyme.
  
COLORS IN THE AIR
Once I hung some ribbons
High up in a tree.
I hung them on branches
For everyone to see.

They were so very pretty
With colors everywhere.
Now when it is windy,
There are colors in the air.
                         Jean Warren

 

 

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