Weather Craft: A Rainy Day Picture

I haven't been keeping up with all of the different crafts during all of the different weeks. So I'm just going to post crafts that I remembered to take pictures of with a title saying what week they belong to. I'm trying as hard as I can to only post crafts I have pictures of, but I have a feeling that won't be possible for a whole lot longer, as college is soon approaching...

This craft is all about a rainy day with multiple components to keep your kids busy. It's a mixed media craft, so it takes a while to put everything together (perfect for a rainy day!), but it can be well worth it if a good effort is put in.

One of the results created by one of my two year old students :)

What You'll Need:

• A large piece of blue construction paper (a regular size piece can be used, but you may just have to cut down the coffee filter to fit the center of the page)
• Coffee filter
• Aluminum foil
• Scissors
• Poly-fill or cotton balls (Poly-fill is the fibrous material used in cheap pillows and to fill stuffed animals. I would recommend cotton balls because they're softer and easier to stick, but in this picture, we used Poly-fill)
• Liquid glue
• Markers and/or watercolor paints

How to Make It:

1. The first thing you'll want to do is cut raindrops out of the aluminum foil. You can easily free-hand this or trace a pattern on the aluminum foil, fold it up, and have your kids do it. It's easy to cut multiple at the same time. You can eyeball the size of the raindrops, but if you still need or want some guidance, I would say they need to each be about an inch to an inch and a half tall, and three-quarters of an inch to an inch thick, depending on how tall you made them.
2. Have the child color or paint the coffee filter as much as they want, and set it aside.
3. Pull apart the Poly-fill to make long cloud strands (you don't need to do this with cotton balls, but you can if you want). Glue the Poly-fill or cotton balls to the top of the large piece of blue construction paper for clouds.
4. Fold the coffee filter in half and glue it shut. Then, glue it to the center of the page. Draw underneath it the cane/stick part of the umbrella (underneath that, we wrote "A Rainy Day" and the child's name for parents. Labeling the picture "A Rainy Day" can't hurt, though. If you want, you can use another medium for the umbrella cane/stick, such as a straw, a twig, etc. Just be creative).
5. Glue on the raindrops falling from the clouds. I let the kids glue them on in any direction they want, but if you want accuracy, you can tell the kids which way they go. I just thought it was cool to teach them that raindrops fell from the clouds, and you should use an umbrella in the rain (lol).
6. Admire the finished product :)