Comments on: Weather Activities for Kids: Rain or Shine https://simplehomeschool.net/weather-activities-for-kids-rain-or-shine/ Never let your schooling interrupt your education. Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:53:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: What is a cloud? Simple weather experiments to do with your kids | Simple Kids https://simplehomeschool.net/weather-activities-for-kids-rain-or-shine/#comment-81381 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=5477#comment-81381 […] Weather Activities for Kids from Simple Homeschool […]

]]> By: katrina https://simplehomeschool.net/weather-activities-for-kids-rain-or-shine/#comment-8698 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=5477#comment-8698 We love weather, all kinds! We are no longer at Waldorf but the thing I loved most about my daughter’s schooling there, besides Ms Annie of course, was the opportunity the children had to be outside IN THE WEATHER everyday. A fun activity for older students and the weather is to have them log a daily “view of my tree” and fill in a leaf as you described, but they will need two trees printed out. Then find them an email pen pal across the world, and have that child do the same. Each day they email each other with a color for their tree. After one year they can see how the other person’s weather was different on some days or the same etc… They might even learn a little about climate in other places and if the kids become true pen pals they might even talk about all sorts of cool things. Search another waldorf parent site. My daughter has a pen pal in Honduras. Life is really different there and my child has come to understand and appreciate her blessings.

]]> By: Things to Write Home About – 11/14/10 | Feels Like Home https://simplehomeschool.net/weather-activities-for-kids-rain-or-shine/#comment-8126 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=5477#comment-8126 […] Kara at Simple Homeschool gave suggestions for enjoying weather whether it’s raining or nice […]

]]> By: Jean-Marie https://simplehomeschool.net/weather-activities-for-kids-rain-or-shine/#comment-7459 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=5477#comment-7459 We just completed our 1st grade weather unit. My daughter kept a weather observation chart. She would observe: 1) the weather (sunny, partly cloudy, cloudy, rainy or snowy); 2) record the temperature and determine if it was hot, warm or cold; 3) the wind speed – calm, light breeze and strong breeze – using her homemade anemometer; 4) the wind direction with a homemade weather vane; the humidity by observing the water vapor droplets that form on a glass of ice outside for 10 minutes in the shade and 5) cloud types by using a chart she made with cotton balls (although now she knows them by heart). And now we just naturally discuss the weather everyday. We also used a shadeless table lamp and inflatable globe to demonstrate how the Earth rotates on an axis to create day and night and how the Earth orbits around the sun on a tilt to create the season. She LOVED it. It’s so exciting when you learn about the world around you.

]]> By: Two Chicks and a Hen https://simplehomeschool.net/weather-activities-for-kids-rain-or-shine/#comment-7433 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=5477#comment-7433 These are good ideas. I keep wanting to photocopy that tree from All Year Round; maybe I’ll do it for the new year. One very simple thing that I often do is to just have my girls watch and feel the weather. If it’s raining, snowing, hailing (which is very rare here) or just extremely windy, I’ll open the back door for 30 seconds and have them stand in front of it. It sounds so basic, but it really draws them into the present moment and they experience the weather with all their senses.

]]> By: Mother of Pearl https://simplehomeschool.net/weather-activities-for-kids-rain-or-shine/#comment-7379 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=5477#comment-7379 To start with my kids just got into reading the weather forecast in the paper each day. This led to lots of opportunities to talk about weather and just made them more aware of weather.

I live in a college town and every year the meteorology students club puts on a family weather day. They have weather games, experiments, giveaways, and demonstrations plus the local tv station comes and sets up a green screen so the kids can try their hand at doing a weather report on camera. It is tons of fun and very inspirational for the kids to talk with so many people who are fascinated by the weather.

]]> By: Alicia https://simplehomeschool.net/weather-activities-for-kids-rain-or-shine/#comment-7368 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=5477#comment-7368 The weather tree is such a fun idea! I think we might make one of our own for November. 🙂

]]> By: Hannah https://simplehomeschool.net/weather-activities-for-kids-rain-or-shine/#comment-7366 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=5477#comment-7366 I love both these ideas. Thanks Kara!

My husband is bit of a weather nut so I bet he’d be bursting with pride if I did a weather-related activity like this with his progeny. Just like he loves when they tell him about their science lessons!

]]> By: priest's wife https://simplehomeschool.net/weather-activities-for-kids-rain-or-shine/#comment-7364 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=5477#comment-7364 Weather is interesting- my big girls like to compare and contrast different family members’ weather at weather.com

]]> By: Nadene https://simplehomeschool.net/weather-activities-for-kids-rain-or-shine/#comment-7363 http://simplehomeschl.wpengine.com/?p=5477#comment-7363 What lovely new ideas!
I made my youngest child a weather chart with dials that turn and slide to show the weather and calendar.

You can download it free. Scroll down to #2 Day, Week, Month, Season and Weather Chart.

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