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July 4, 2013

Cloud Watching and Cloud Painting

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Cloud watching is on our “Old School” Summer Bucket List–you can’t beat a totally free bonding activity that allows you to slow down and spend time with your kids. There is no prep required for this old school activity. All you need to do is wait for a day with some clouds in the sky and go outside with your kids. Find shapes and pictures “hidden” in the clouds and point them outo to each other. You can even make up stories about what you see. Then keep the cloud watching fun going with this simple cloud painting activity.

Cloud Painting! The prefect follow up activity to cloud watching. Use the cloud paint recipe to create 3-D fulffy clouds on paper!You can add in pretend or real binoculars to make it even more fun!

Cloud Watching Kids ActivityIt has been quite rainy lately so there were many clouds in the sky for us to observe.  We spent the afternoon sitting on our back porch watching the clouds and enjoying the rain.

Cloud watching and story telling is a must do activity for childhood.They told stories about the things they saw in the clouds and sketched the clouds on their paper.

Cloud Painting! Use cloud paint to create the pictures you see while cloud watching!Then we mixed up some cloud paint and painted the clouds we saw in the sky.  

How to Make Cloud Paint

  • To make cloud paint mix together a bowl full of shaving cream with about 2 tablespoons of white paint and 2 tablespoon of school glue.  
  • While it’s still fluffy give it to the kids to paint with using a paint brush.

The kids love to use the cloud paint because it stays fluffy and has a 3-D effect.

Cloud Painting! Use the cloud paint recipe to create fluffy 3-D clouds after cloud watching!Cloud watching is always a great time–and adding an art project made the experience even better.  It’s so interesting to hear what the kids come up with–next time I want to remember to video their stories.  

More “Old School” Summer Activities:

“Old School” Summer Bucket List

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Disclosure:  Gummy Lump Toys sent me toys to play with, but in no other way sponsored this post.  All ideas and opinions are mine alone. 🙂

About Megan Sheakoski

Megan is the creator of Coffee Cups and Crayons, a blog full of simple fun and learning. She believes that kids’ activities don’t have to be complicated to be fun and that learning is better with play.

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Comments

  1. Jackie Higgins says

    July 4, 2013 at 10:08 am

    Great activity! I think we may have to try it next week, sounds like a good way to relax after a busy holiday weekend. The book, “It looked like Spilt Milk” would go great with this activity too!

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    • Megan Sheakoski says

      July 4, 2013 at 4:17 pm

      Jackie that’s so funny that you mentioned that book! We did a guest post for Jackie Small about making cloud window clings to go with It Looked Like Split Milk!

      Reply
  2. Nina says

    July 4, 2013 at 4:13 pm

    Hi! Dropping by from MaryAnne’s blog. Love this idea of cloud painting. This seems like a good, calm activity for my three year old.

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    • Megan Sheakoski says

      July 4, 2013 at 4:18 pm

      It was definitely relaxing! We had a fun afternoon–thanks for stopping by!!!

      Reply

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