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Materials

Little Cloud by Eric Carle

White paint

Paintbrushes

Blue construction paper

Instructions

What to do
1. Read Little Cloud by Eric Carle.
2. Bring the class outside to look at the clouds. Invite the children to lie on their backs and talk
about the pictures they see in the clouds.
3. When you return to the classroom, invite the children to paint their own cloud pictures with
white paint on blue construction paper.
More to do
Movement: Put on some quiet music and invite the children to move gracefully to it, pretending
they are clouds.

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