Materials
- 6" (15 cm) paper plates
- Craft sticks
- Markers or crayons
- Glue
- Construction paper
- Safety scissors
- Crepe or tissue paper, blue and green
- Cotton
What to do
1. Talk about various types of weather, such as sunny, snowy, windy, rainy, hot, etc.
2. Set out the craft supplies on a table and give each child a paper plate.
3. Explain that they are going to make weather puppets. Invite them to turn their plates into clouds, raindrops, snowflakes, the sun, etc. Wind puppets could have streamers cut from crepe or tissue paper. Clouds could be made of glued-on cotton. The sun could be made from yellow construction paper. Encourage them to use their imaginations.
4. When the plates are decorated, have the children glue a craft stick to the back and extending below the plate as a handle.
5. Invite the children show their puppets to the class and talk about what kind of weather the puppet represents. Encourage them to talk about what they would do and wear in that type of weather.
More to do
- Circle time: Save representative children's puppets to represent each type of weather. Use at circle time to identify and discuss the day's weather.
-Margery A. Kranyik, Hyde Park, MA
