DIY Activities for March
*Fun for the whole family!*
Make Your Own Cloud!
What You Need:
- Glass jar
- Piece of black paper but to fit halfway up around the jar
- Tape
- Hot tap water
- Match (make sure you are supervised!)
- Ice cubes in a plastic bag
What You Do:
- Tape the piece of black paper around the bottom half of the
jar.
- Fill the jar to the top with hot water.
- Leave it for about a minute.
- Then pour out all but an inch of the water.
- Have an adult light the match and hold it over the jar
opening for a few seconds.
- Drop the match in the water.
- Then quickly put the plastic bag of ice cubes over the top
of the jar.
Questions to ask your child:
- What happened to the air in the jar?
- What did the ice cubes do?
- What else did you notice?
So what happened? The warm water and the match heated the air
inside the jar.
The warm, wet air rose up to the top of the jar and ran
into the cold air just below the ice cubes.
When the warm, wet air met the cold wet air, they created a
cloud of water droplets. Instant cloud!
St. Patrick's Day- Leprechaun
Mask
Materials needed to create your very own St. Patrick’s Day
Craft:
- Paper plate
- Green, yellow, and black construction paper
- Orange paint
- Gold glitter
- Craft glue
- Yarn
- Scissors
What to do:
- Cut out a circle in the middle of the paper plate.
- Have your child paint the paper plate orange and allow to
dry completely.
- Allow your paper plate to dry and being creating your
leprechaun hat. (If you have a younger child you can cut out
the hat pieces for them, but if your child is ready to cut the
pieces themselves go ahead and draw a small rectangle on a
black construction paper, a hat from green construction paper,
and a little square with the yellow paper.)
- Allow your child to cut out the pieces for a great fine
motor skills activity.
- For the gold buckle, help your child cut another square
inside to create a thin buckle for your hat.
- For some extra sparkle, you can also add gold glitter to
your leprechaun’s hat buckle.
- Glue the pieces together on the leprechaun hat and glue your
hat to the mask.
- To create a fun bearded effect, cut small strips on the
bottom of your painted paper plate.
- Allow all your pieces to dry before using the mask,
especially glitter. Believe me; you do not want all that wet
glitter on your child’s face. Yes, unfortunately, we are
speaking from experience!
- To make your mask tie around your child’s head tie yarn on
each side of the mask.
I'm Lucky Because... Writing
Assignment
(This was done in Reading class but the template and
example is here in case students would like to do them at home
too!)
Prompt: I'm LUCKY because...
Cut out your own shamrock shape.
