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Making Raindrops

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Materials

Pan

Water

Eyedroppers, various sizes

Instructions

1. On a rainy day, take the class outside to observe raindrops. Point out how raindrops that fallon puddles cause ripples in them. Talk about how the ripples get bigger and bigger the fartherout they go.

2. Go inside and invite the children to make ripples like the ones they saw outside. Give themeyedroppers and a pan of water. Show them how to make water go in and out of an eye-dropper. Then they make ripples by letting drops fallinto the pan.More to doArt: Use watered-down tempera paint and eyedroppers to make rain art.Circle time: Everyone practices making rain sounds by snapping fingers, clapping hands orslapping legs. When the whole group gets going, it really sounds like a downpour!

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