Clouds in a jar (and more), here are many creative or more scientific activities for all children who love the sky.
Don't store avocado like this: it's dangerousObserving the clouds is an activity with multiple benefits and there are numerous games for children that see them as protagonists. Creative, sensory or more scientific activities, always with a cloud theme, which teach them to know them, which stimulate the imagination and even concentration. Here are some of the most interesting proposals from bloggers.
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Sugar Spice & Glitt's cloud shaving foam
Super-creative is the sensory activity of Sugar Spice & Glitter which proposes to make a cloud shaving foam using an unbreakable mirror, shaving foam, brushes and glass gems.
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How to do? Go to the garden with the children and place the mirror on the ground so that it reflects the clouds. Observe its shapes and movements through the mirror, then invite the children to trace the contours of the reflection of the clouds with their fingers.
Dip the brushes in the shaving cream and start tracing the clouds on the surface. Shaving foam comes and goes easily, unlike colors such as tempera, thus allowing children to add and remove layers as they please.
Once the work is finished, they can refine the clouds with gems, applying them around.
The (real) clouds of Gift of Curiosity
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If the activity just illustrated is of a creative-sensorial type, the one that follows from Gift of Curiosity has a more scientific purpose, it is in fact to create clouds in a jar, starting from the assumption that they are formed when the water vapor condenses in water droplets, which attach themselves to various particles in the air.
Gift of Curiosity, to create the cloud jar, uses lacquer, a jar with a lid, 1/3 cup of hot water, ice.
First you need to pour the hot water into the jar, turn it a little so that the sides heat up, then flip the lid and place it on top of the jar. The ice cubes should be placed on the lid for about twenty seconds. The lid is then removed, lacquer is sprayed into the jar quickly and the lid is replaced with ice.
Once you have a lot of condensation, you remove the lid while watching the cloud escape into the air. Why does this happen? By adding hot water to the jar, part of it becomes water vapor, which rises to the top of the jar where it comes into contact with the cold air thanks to the ice. The water vapor, when it cools, condenses, but the cloud forms only if the water vapor has something to condense on, in this case the lacquer!
What are the clouds hiding? Brassy Apple's business
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Children are very good at finding animals and imaginary creatures in the clouds and the activity proposed by Brassy Apple needs their vivid imagination. First of all you have to go out into the open air to photograph the clouds, letting the children if possible to immortalize your favorites.
Then you go back to the house to print the photos and put them inside laminated sheets. Using an erasable marker, children will have to draw on the images the figures they see appear, for example a dog, a cat, an elf, a dragon and so on. Then the photo will pass to another child who, in turn, will have to draw with the marker what he sees. He who knows how many creatures are hiding in the clouds!
And once the game is over, thanks to the laminated cover, a damp sponge will suffice to erase and start over. A perfect creative activity to stimulate the imagination, to do in summer but also in winter.
FONTI: Sugar Spice & Glitter/Brassy Apple/Gift of Curiosity
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