25 Fun Weather Crafts for Kids
Weather can be a scary thing for young kids. Teaching them about the different types of weather can help them be less afraid.
Weather crafts for kids can be a great method of active learning, letting kids become more engaged with the knowledge they’re absorbing. We put together a list of 25 weather crafts for children to enjoy.
Check out our section for the supplies you’ll need for these crafts. Then, dive into the list and find the ones that appeal to your kids.
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25 Weather Crafts for Kids
You’ll need basic craft supplies for these kids’ weather crafts, like your trusty trio – glue, scissors, and pencil. You may also need the following:
- Coloring utensils – crayons, pencils, markers, paint
- Paper – construction, cardstock, copy, scrap
- Glue – clear, hot, low temp, Elmer’s
- Toilet paper or paper towel rolls
- Vinegar, dish soap, food coloring
- Glitter, sequins, beads
- Craft or popsicle sticks
Weather Crafts for Preschoolers and Beyond
Looking for fun and educational weather crafts to keep your little ones engaged? Whether you’re teaching about rain, sunshine, or snow, these weather crafts for preschoolers are perfect for hands-on learning. From colorful rainbows to fluffy clouds, these kid’s weather crafts will spark creativity while helping children understand the world around them.
So, grab your supplies, and let’s dive into some exciting weather arts and crafts projects!
1. Rain Cloud Craft
Looking for a creative way to teach your little ones about the weather? This adorable rain cloud craft made from a paper plate is the perfect hands-on activity! With just a few simple supplies, your kids can create a cloud with dangling raindrops.
It’s an easy craft that’s great for a rainy day indoors or as part of a weather-themed lesson plan.
2. Kids Rain Art Project
You can download this free umbrella template to use with your home printer. You’ll need washable pens to color the umbrella sheet. Once you’ve colored it, set the projects out in the rain to let the colors bleed. You can also use a spray bottle or dropper to make the ink run together.
3. Paper Plate Rain Cloud Craft
Paper plates can make great base layers for weather crafts. You can cut out this rain cloud template and create various weather situations. Once the template is printed, cut out, and assembled, your kids can customize it using crayons, markers, paint, and foil.
4. Number Match Paper Plate Sun
This easy sun-weather craft for kids only needs a few typical craft supplies and minimal skills. You’ll need a paper plate, yellow paint, a black marker, sponges, and ten clothes pins.
5. Create a Cute Umbrella Craft
This easy umbrella craft is a fun project for kids to do on a rainy day. You’ll need a cardboard tube, like toilet paper or a paper towel roll, a black marker, scissors, tape, string, and a piece of cardboard to turn into an umbrella.
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6. Rainbow Coffee Filter Project
These adorable smiling cloud rainbows are made from coffee filters and construction paper. For this easy project, you’ll need round coffee filters, googly eyes, craft paper in pink and white, washable markers, scissors, a spray bottle of water, a hot glue gun, and this rainbow cloud pattern.
7. Make a Smiling Sunshine Craft
This project converts basic paper plates into a beautiful spinning sun using paint markers, scissors, and a brass fastener. Your kids can customize their sun to their liking, and they can give it as a sweet gift for any holiday.
8. Blizzard in a Jar
This simple STEM project turns a basic jar into a fun snowstorm with basic supplies. This project used a quart-sized jar, but you can use a bigger or smaller size as long as you adjust the ingredient amount. You need water, craft paint, baby oil, and Alka-Seltzer tablets.
9. Fork Paint Sun Project
This easy sun project is perfect for preschoolers because it is simple to assemble. You’ll need two colors of construction paper—blue and yellow—along with washable paint and a fork.
10. Ripped Paper Mosaic Rainbow
Rainbows are a great way to excite kids about science and the weather. This easy rainbow craft lets your kids tear paper into tiny pieces that they can then glue onto a rainbow base. You’ll need seven colors of paper, the rainbow template, glue, and scissors.
11. Popsicle Stick Weather Craft
This weather project uses large craft sticks, glue, a pencil and marker, different colors of craft paper, scissors, and a template for weather signs. You can teach your kids about various elements of the weather, such as cutting, gluing, and following directions.
12. Snowflake Popsicle Stick Project
Each snowflake is unique, always looking different from others. Your kids will enjoy making their own snowflakes. And they don’t have to worry about following directions to the point that their final product looks just like the example. You’ll need popsicle sticks, a paper plate, a paintbrush, white paint, glitter, sequins, and a hot glue gun.
13. Felt Weather Chart and Printable Journal
This project uses several colors of felt, flat craft sticks or round dowel rods, iron-on letters, a glue gun, paint markers, and scissors. You may prefer to help children assemble the chart and print out the journal.
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14. Create a Tornado in a Jar
This neat STEM project will delight younger minds and make you look like the coolest parent on the block. You’ll need to gather a round jar, dish soap, food coloring, water, vinegar, beads, and glitter.
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15. Toddler Calming Sensory Bottle
Sensory water bottles, often called calm-down bottles, can be a great way to calm overstimulated children and keep them entertained. They contain oil, water, and other small items inside a clear object. You can use sequins, small toys, glitter, or beads.
Also, try our fun glitter sensory jars!
16. DIY Rain Stick Sensory Bottles
Rain sticks can provide soothing sounds, making them a great tool for calming restless toddlers. They’re easy to make, giving your toddlers a fun DIY project. You’ll need small glass bottles, uncooked spaghetti noodles, dry tree twigs, glue, sunflower seeds, coffee beans, beans, small stones, and rice.
17. Rainbow Colors of Me Printable
This inspirational diversity printable lets kids embrace their differences and create a get-to-know-me craft. After adding their details, they can color the printable and hang it on the wall or a fridge for a nice visual display.
18. Complimentary Kindness Sun Craft
This kindness sun can be a great way to encourage kids to be nice to each other by giving compliments. This project requires scissors, glue, cardstock in orange and yellow, a bowl or other circle for tracing, and a pencil.
19. Rainbow Cloud Card Craft
With the rainbow card template printed out, grab the craft supplies and give your kids a space to work. You’ll need some glue, scissors, crayons or markers, and white construction or cardstock paper.
When you are finished, try making our rainbow spaghetti, which is great for sensory play!
20. Preschool Storm Name Project
Another fun kids’ weather craft is this spring storm-themed name project. You’ll need glue, scissors, the template, construction paper, and cardstock. You can type your child’s name before you print the template, or you can leave the raindrops blank so your kid can write their name in.
21. Winter Themed Sensory Bin
Seasonal sensory bins are great for letting your kids explore with their hands without dealing with Mother Nature’s risks. This sensory activity recreates a winter wonderland with different-sized pom poms such as snowballs, white felt or polyester batting for snow, snowflake toys or ornaments, mini arctic animals, a sensory bin or tub, bowls, and spoons.
When you are finished, try these other fun winter-themed sensory bins!
22. Weather Indicator Paper Plate Project
This adorable weather plate craft is a great way for kids to play a weather reporter. They can turn the arrow to point to the weather that is happening, or that will happen. And they’ll have a blast creating the project, too. You’ll need to provide a paper plate, thumb pin, different colors of craft paper, a marker pen, scissors, glue, a pencil, and the weather PDF template.
23. Camp Themed Weather Cup Project
This weather cup project uses two solo cups, tape, crayons, pencils, and printable labels. It’s the perfect craft to do while camping or doing a homeschooling lesson on the weather.
24. Thunderstorm Weather Craft
This simple thunderstorm craft requires minimal supplies and zero skill or experience. It’s the perfect project for preschool kids to learn about thunderstorms. You’ll need colored paper, silver or gray paint, glue, and yellow paper.
25. Rainbow Melted Crayon Art Canvas
This interesting weather craft converts crayons into a work of art. You may need to help melt the crayons. An oven works best, but you can also use a heat gun or hair dryer. You’ll need a canvas, parchment paper, crayons, a cookie sheet, scissors, a mixing bowl, and a printed picture of your child.
25 Weather Crafts for Children
These kids’ weather crafts can give you plenty of ways to introduce the concept of different types of weather. Whether you need weather crafts for preschoolers or older kids, a project is on this list for your children to try.
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