Science for Little Ones: Teaching Your Kids About Rain {Guest Post}

Posted on March 1, 2013 by admin

Hi everyone!  Today I’m turning the blog over to Becky  from Your Modern Family for a fun and easy science project for little kids.  As a kindergarten teacher and mom to 4, Becky is always looking for ways to keep her kids learning.  And once you’re done here, make sure to venture over to her blog for some great organization and money saving tips.  Take it away Becky!

Hi!  I’m Becky from Your Modern Family  (A blog about raising our kids, organizing our homes and saving money) and I am so excited to be able to share a guest post with you.

I’d love to share a fun kid-friendly activity with you – Teaching your kids about rain!

Kids are like sponges… always ready to soak in information! 

When teaching your children about weather, I love to do this with them…

First- introduce some basic concepts:  Clouds, rain, air.  Let them go outside & look at these things.
Come back in and take a vase or empty, clear jar.

Step 1: Fill an empty jar or vase (clear) 3/4 of the way full with water.  This is the AIR. 

Step 2: Add some (cheap) shaving cream to the top of the jar.  These are the CLOUDS.

Step 3: Time to add some RAIN.  Take blue food coloring and let your children drip it on top of the “clouds” – you don’t need a lot for this to work.  Explain that when the water builds up in the clouds, it has to fall down.    Watch as the blue food coloring drips through the shaving cream (give it just a minute).

Step 4: Watch the “rain” go into the “air” – it is now raining!

 

Step 5: extension: Follow this up with a little fun and let your kids spray the shaving cream on an empty counter-top or in a casserole dish (if you want to contain the mess).  Let them draw their names or a fun picture in it.  This is easy to clean up and a great activity for your little ones!

Enjoy! 

Find more Kid-Friendly activities at Your Modern Family!

This entry was posted in Family and tagged , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

6 Responses to Science for Little Ones: Teaching Your Kids About Rain {Guest Post}

  1. Margarita Ibbott ~ @DownshiftingPRO says:
    March 1, 2013 at 12:44 pm

    That is such a fun project. I think I am going to forward it to my son’s teacher. She may want to try this with the kids in the spring.

  2. Sofia says:
    March 1, 2013 at 3:41 pm

    This is so much fun!! My boys would love it!! 🙂

  3. Tracey @ Dont Mess with Mama says:
    March 1, 2013 at 4:40 pm

    My sons love science. What a cute project to share with them.

  4. Michelle Muckala says:
    March 3, 2013 at 10:12 pm

    My daughter just asked me about this concept and I didn’t know how to explain it. So excited to try this out, and love that I found your blog. So cute, love it!

  5. Lisa Nelson says:
    March 4, 2013 at 1:48 pm

    Okay, this is awesome!! This will be a great for our homeschool science project. I’m pinning!

    Thanks for this Jennifer!

  6. Pingback: Awesome blog posts, recipes & Experiments - The Squishable Baby

Comments are closed.