CLOUD DOUGH Mix together 6 cups and 1 cup salad oil Add enought water to make the dough soft and pliable If desired add food coloring This dough is soft and elestic and does not harden Keep it in covered containers Encourage children to make different cloud shapes CLOUD ART Give each child a piece of light blue construction paper Fold paper in half and then unfold Let the children squeeze 3-4 drop of white paint from a eyedropper Have them refold and rub across with hands open to reveal cloud pictures CLOUD IN A JAR Find a clear glass 1/2 gallon or gallon bottle and a cork or rubber stopper that fits in its mouth Poke a hole vertically through the stopper Rinse the bottle with warm water and immediately insert the stopper Blow as much air as possible into the bottle through the hole in the stopper Cover the hole with a finger Pull the stopper out quickly and let the children watch as a cloud forms inside the bottle The cloud forms because there was a change from high air pressure to low air pressure CLOUD PAIRS Draw pairs of different shaped clouds on index cards Mix up the cards and let the children take turn finding matches COUNTING CLOUDS Fluff out fifteen cotton balls Glue from 1-5 of them on 5 pieces of light blue paper Let each child have a turn counting clouds DID YOU EVER SEE A CLOUD? (tune: did you ever see a lassie) Did you ever see a cloud A cloud a cloud Did you ever see a cloud That looked like a bear? A big one a little one A lazy one a funny one Did you ever see a cloud that looked like a bear? Did you ever see a cloud a cloud a cloud Did you ever see a cloud That looked like a plane A big one a litle A fast one a slow one Did you ever see a cloud That looked like a plane? WHEN I LOOK ONTO THE SKY (tune: twinkle twinkle) When i look into the sky I can see the clouds go by They don't ever make a sound Letting wind push them around Some go fast and some go slow I wonder where the clouds all go WHIPPED CREAM CLOUDS Serve whipped cream clouds on top of sliced berries. These all came from THEME-A SAURUS 2 ************************* A good book to read for clouds is IT LOOKED LIKE SPILT MILK By Charles Shaw