Make-It Topic: Rain

Imaginative:

• Place umbrellas, rain coats and boots. Use large blue paper to cut out puddles, encourage the children to have a rain day.
• Set up a weather station with cameras and microphones, let them be weather reporters.

Language:

• Read “In the Rain With Baby Duck”
• Make as if I were a raindrop book, ask the children what they would do and write it down.
• Read “Rain Fee” then sing rain, rain go away

Art:

• Use eye droppers filled with colored water, encourage the children to make a rain picture
• Sticky paper rainbows, have sticky paper cut into rainbow shapes and have cut up colored paper to stick on the rainbow
• Have black, white and grey paint for a rain picture
• Make rainy day bags, have brown paper bags for the children to color and put games into

Water/Sand:

• Punch small medium and large holes into containers place in the water table use old baby powder jars, watering cans for making rain
• Add flowers in the water for it to rain on
• Place dirt into the sand table for children to play in

Gross Motor:

• Place a container of mud on the ground, allow the children to squish their bare feet in the container
• Pre-cut a blue mat or material into different shapes, on each one have a different action (jumping, spinning, balancing)
• Throw bean bags into an umbrella
• Have a worm wiggle moment, encourage the children to wiggle like worms on the ground

Science/Curiosity:

• Graph the weather each day for one week
• Water tasting, collect tap water, soda water and distilled water, allow the children to taste them all and see what is different
• Collect rain water and measure how much you have

Blocks:

• Place out monster trucks and sand paper for the cars to roll over

Conceptual/Tabletop/Fine Motor:

• Partially fill a zip lock bag with brown finger paint or chocolate pudding (mud), seal the bag and tape it shut, encourage the children to trace letters on the bag
• Make a file folder game, use umbrellas with numbers, have the children place the number of rain drops on each one
• Have colored fabric in different shapes and matching color containers to sort the colors and shapes
• Have cut out raindrops in different colors to match an umbrella
• Make rain drops for the children to bead
• Make umbrellas for the children to lace
  

Music:

• Sing “Rain, Rain Go Away”
• Make rain sticks

Quiet:

• Cut out different clothing in magazines, have the children sort the clothes from summer and winter
• Make raindrops for the flannel board

Cooking:

• Bake a puddle cake
• 1 ½ cup flour
• 3 tbsp cocoa
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 6 tbsp oil
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 tsp vinegar
• 1 cup water

Preheat oven to 350° F

Sift the dry ingredients, make a well and add the liquid ingredients, add the water

Mix well, bake 15-20 minutes

Field Trips:

• Go for a walk after the rain, look in the puddles and record what you see
• Go for a walk with umbrella, having fun in the rain
• Go to the park and use chalk to color on the wet sidewalks