Preschool Weather Activity – Building a Weather chart with your Preschooler

Teach your preschooler about weather patterns with this fun preschool weather activity by creating a weather chart. From this preschool weather activity, your preschooler will learn how the weather changes day to day and how certain weather patterns (such as rain) follow other weather patterns (like clouds).

What your Preschooler will Learn from this Preschool Weather Activity:

1. The different weather patterns
2. How much variation can occur during the day in the weather
3. That one weather pattern (i.e.: clouds) can lead to another (i.e.: rain)
4. The days of the week

What you Need for this Preschool Weather Activity:

1. A large piece of paper (butcher paper or a smaller poster board is great)
2. Construction Paper or 250-cards 2x3.5 White Inkjet Business Cards
3. Scissors
4. Cotton Balls
5. Coloring pens/markers
6. Velcro with adhesive backs
7. A small box such as a shoe box or a pencil box

What to do:

Step one: Using your large piece of paper and pens create a seven day-chart, using equal length squares. Add a day of the week to each square. In each square put two or three scratchy pieces of Velcro.

Step two: Using your construction paper or your business cards, create the following weather patterns

1. Rain (a rain drop or a cloud with rain drops coming from it)
2. Clouds (use your cotton balls)
3. Rainbow
4. Sun
5. Wind (use swirly lines to indicate wind)
6. Lightening
7. Snowflake
8. Fog (color a few cotton balls gray and glue them onto a piece of paper shaped like a cloud)

Make these a smaller size so you can put multiple weather patterns onto the same square.

Step three: Put a fuzzy piece of Velcro on the back of each weather pattern

Step four: Have you and your preschooler check on the weather and note it on your weather chart. If the weather in your area is volatile, feel free to change the weather patterns throughout the day. Use multiple weather patterns for single days (during a storm, you may have clouds, rain and wind). Make sure you and your preschooler are noting the day of the week as well so you’re teaching multiple concepts.

Step five: Keep the weather patterns you're not using in that shoe or pencil box.  You and your preschooler can even decorate the box with lots of fun stickers. 

Variations on this Preschool Weather Activity:

1. Feel free to make a two week or a twenty-eight day chart if you choose. You’ll need to create lots of weather patterns, but many preschoolers enjoy seeing how the weather changes over the course of a month.
2. If you don’t have time or the inclination to make weather patterns—create a 28 day chart and use stickers to indicate the weather.

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