It’s Raining, It’s Pouring!
2-3's and 4-5's
1. Activity 1: Brain-STORM
Instructions:
Talk about all of the different things that the kids like to do in the rain. Give them some ideas, like drawing a picture for someone, or making a furniture fort, or baking with an adult. Talk about how they dress when they go out in the rain, and about things that are fun to do outside when it’s raining (like puddle-jumping or looking for worms.
2. Poem: Thunder Crashes
Thunder crashes.
Lightening flashes.
Rain makes puddles,
I make splashes.
3. Read: Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
4. Poem: Splash
"Splash," said a raindrop
As it fell upon my hat;
"Splash said another
As it trickled down my back.
"You are very rude," I said
As I looked up to the sky;
Then another raindrop splashed
Right into my eye!
5. Read: Fix-It Duck
6. Activity: Paper-folding story
Use a sheet of paper to tell a paper folding story. Use the basic outline found at http://www.uelma.org/miscpdf/09conference/conf_glance/prop_up.pdf but with some additions and deviations.
8. Craft: Craft: Rain Sticks
Materials:
• Paper towel or toilet paper tubes (one per participant)
• Toothpicks
• A bag of rice or other small grains
• Tin foil circles, (approx. 10 cm in diameter) (2 per participant)
• Elastics
• Markers
Instructions:
1. Before the program, poke a number of holes (using a large needle, or any sufficiently pointy object) into the rolls, and cut out the tin foil circles.
2. Each participant should be given a paper towel tube. Participants can begin by decorating their tube.
3. Seal off one end of each tube with one of the circles of tin foil and an elastic.
Pour several spoonfuls of rice into each tube. Then, use the second circle of paper and the tape to seal the rain stick.
4. When the rain stick is turned over, the sound of the rice bouncing off the toothpicks should generate a soothing rain sound.
