March winds bring April showers! April showers bring May flowers!
This is our last week of April and April has brought us many showers! The weather forcasters predict more rain this week too. After the dark clouds clear and the puddles dry, the blue sky and fair weather clouds appear. Here is a cloud above my mother’s house. What do you think of the shape of this cloud? Does it remind you of anything else? Let’s explore the clouds above our homes and around our neighborhoods!
Some days the sky is covered with a blanket of grey clouds. On another day the sky may be totally blue with not a cloud in sight.
Look! The sun is starting to peak through the clouds.
On this windy day, the clouds look like long and wispy strips stretching through the sky.
Little clouds look like small specks in the sky. Do these clouds remind you of anything that flies in the sky?
Look at these clouds! Do you see some shapes that remind you of something else? What do they look like to you?
When I spotted this cloud in the blue sky, I thought it looked like a friendly snowman waving HELLO! I printed a picture of it and drew a face and mitten. You can use your imagination and draw with your finger, or print a picture and use a crayon or pen.
Ideas for Cloud Exploration
For puffy clouds you can use cotton balls or cotton pads and tear them into little pieces. You can arrange them in fluffy shapes. If you want long wispy clouds you can cut a pad in strips.
Explore different types of paper and materials to make your cloud shapes. Some materials I found include tissue paper, felt, magazine pictures, a copy of a cloud photo and an assortment of paper. Clouds form endless shapes, so you can use scissors or even tear pieces of paper to see what shapes they become. Tearing paper makes the edges look so cloudlike!
Yarn and string can be used to design cloud shapes too. You can create your design using glue or you may decided to gather your materials in a box for everchanging cloud play! I wonder what other materials you may find at your homes? Please send photos of your explorations to your studio teachers. They will love to see them!
