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20 Weather STEM Activities for Kids

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Spring breaks all kinds of unique weather opportunities in our area! Weather is always changing, and there are always great times to learn about weather. If you are looking for some fun activities for a weather unit, or you want to teach your kids about spring weather, these activities are perfect!

These weather STEM activities are perfect for kids and will teach them all about the weather in a fun and interactive way! Your kids can learn all about the weather safely, without having to do any storm chasing! Here are 20 weather STEM activities for kids to do at home.

Weather Craft kits and Activity books.  Check out this article on the best STEM gifts for kids.

 

  1. Weather Tracking 
  2. How to Make a Tornado in a Bottle
  3. How to Make Pinwheels
  4. How to Make Frost in a Can
  5. Snow Storm in a Jar
  6. Recording and Graphing Weather
  7. Simple Water Cycle Activity
  8. Water Cycle Science Discovery Bottle
  9. Green Science Weather Station
  10. Snow Ice Simple Science
  11. Build a Wind Turbine
  12. Make a Hurricane
  13. Homemade Thermometer Science Experiment
  14. Pudding Cup Anemometer
  15. Solar Oven
  16. Simple Heat Experiment
  17. Rainbow Windsock
  18. Blizzard in a Bag
  19. Pine Cone Weather Station 
  20. Cloud in a Jar

 

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Printable Cross Stitch Sheets Make it Easy to Cross Stitch on Clothes

Lately I have been feeling like all of my clothes are looking a little worn or feeling a little tired. I don’t want to buy new clothes, though, so there’s been a lot of mending, altering and adding special touches to things that otherwise might get overlooked or not worn at all. 

As an example, not too long ago I added a little bit of embroidery to a T-shirt, which was a lot of fun to do and made me start eyeing all my solid-colored garments and wondering how they might look with some stitching added. 

Of course you can cross stitch on garments, too, whether T-shirts or woven tops, skirts, pants and more. But it can be tricky to transfer cross stitch designs to your garment to make stitching easier. 

Much like with embroidery, it’s great to use a water soluble stabilizer to keep your fabric in place while you stitch and to transfer your design (or your cross stitch grid at least) while you’re stitching. Then you just wash away the stabilizer when you’re done and it will look like the stitching has always been there. 

Ashley General Handmade uses Sulky Stick ‘n Stitch, which is a product I use, too. It’s easy to use and washes away cleanly. 

To make it even easier, she designed some printable cross stitch grids at different counts that you can print out to draw your own cross stitch designs, but you can also print the grid right on the Sulky, so you can stitch on top of squares and then remove them when you’re done. 

Brilliant, right? 

She has pages as big as 8 count and all the way down to 20 (remember: the bigger the number the smaller the stitches will be) that you can download and print to make your own designs and also use to make stitching on clothing easier. I’m definitely going to try this the next time I want to cross stitch on fabric!

You can grab her printables over at Ashley General Handmade.

[Photo: Ashley General Handmade]