Water Cycle

This week was about the Water Cycle. This project I had a few kids sponge paint the sun and the clouds. All the rest of the children used markers to make dots on the raindrops. It was a simple project and the kids loved it and had a lot of fun. For the lesson I brought in cotton balls for the kids. We pretended to use them as clouds. I took a bowl of water and had each kid one by one put the cotton ball into the water so that the cotton ball was saturated with water. When the cotton ball was filling with water I told the kids this is like the clouds filling up with rain. After the cotton ball was in the water for 10-20 seconds I told the kids to take the cotton ball out of the water and squeeze all the water out of the cotton ball into the bowl. Then I told them that when the clouds can't hold anymore water in them they have to rain and that's why the cotton ball was dripping water out of it. The kids had more fun playing in the water that was left on the table but it was a simple idea to show the kids how the water cycle work. I work with 2-3 year old's and that project they had a blast with. Live life to the fullest ☮ ♥ ☺ ♪