More Than 15 Weather Crafts for Kids of All Ages

No matter the season, discover weather crafts for kids that you can use throughout the year. There are more than 15 ideas below.

Scroll down to discover hands-on activities, crafts, and art projects you can add to your preschool weather activities.

These ideas are perfect for kids ages 3-7!

Weather Crafts for Kids

Easy Colours of the Rainbow Craft

This simple colors of the rainbow craft is a great way to demonstrate to preschoolers how rainbows form.

Wind Painting for Kids Process Art Activity

Kids can practice blow painting when you let them create this wind painting process art activity.

Sunscreen Painting: STEAM For Kids

This cool art project creates a unique sun print while demonstrating how sunscreen works.

Cotton Ball Clouds Process Art for Preschoolers

After reading books about clouds, let your preschoolers make their own clouds with cotton balls.

Heat Wave Science Magic for Kids: Make Crayons

Little ones will love exploring the effects of heat and the sun when you help them make homemade “heat wave” crayons.

How to Make a Rain Cloud in a Jar

Making a rain cloud in a jar is a great way to explore weather with your preschoolers and young learners. They'll see up close how clouds make rain.

Cloudy Art Invitation to Create Process Art Experience

Strengthen fine motor muscles as kids use a pipette to make this cloudy art invitation to create.

Winter Fun for Kids: Painting with Icicles

If you have icicles on your home or trees, let your kids use them to create a one-of-a-kind art project.

Ice Lantern States of Water Winter STEAM Activity

This ice lantern is so cool! Your kids will love creating one of their own and then letting it shine.

Spring Craft for Kids – Weather Headband

Kids will love wearing this weather headband they made.

Popsicle Stick Smiley Sun Craft for Kids

This popsicle stick sun is adorable! Save it for summer or do it in winter for a little pick-me-up.

Weather Wheel Printable for Kids

This weather wheel will help your little ones learn more about the weather. They'll love spinning the wheel to identify the weather each day.

Tornado in a Bottle

If you live in an area with tornadoes, demonstrate what they look like with this fun activity.

Paper Plate Cloud Craft

Little ones will love shaking the paper plate cloud craft and watching the raindrops dance.

Snowstorm in a Jar

This snow storm in a jar is perfect for kids who live in an area that doesn't get much snow.

WEATHER BOOKS FOR KIDS

Fill your book basket with a great collection of books about weather. Most of these books can be found at your local library or used bookstore.

If you have a hard time finding them, you can order them through my Amazon affiliate links by clicking the images below.

Freddy the Frogcaster – Freddy the Frog loves learning about the weather, and he’s known for having the best predictions in town. But what happens when the town picnic is almost ruined by a storm that catches the local frogcaster by surprise? Freddy has to step in to save the day!

Weather – Each sturdy page offers helpful prompts for engaging with your child (“Look out the window. What is the weather like today?”) plus simple scientific facts (“Mornings are cooler than afternoons because the sun doesn’t shine overnight.”)

Everything Weather – Weather can be wild, freaky, and fascinating! Powerful twisters roar through homes; earthquakes shatter whole cities; hurricanes fly through towns. How does it all happen and how do we know what we do? All you need to know about weather and all of its wildness!

Teaching Resources

Want a simple yet eye-catching way to teach children about weather? This 13 piece weather playset is perfect!

Learning the weather can be so fun with this felt weather wheel! The embroidery featuring sunny, partly sunny, cloudy, snow, rainbow, rain and thunderstorm makes it perfect for everyday use.

Teach preschoolers about the weather with these real-photo 3-part vocabulary cards.

Discover the excitement of rainbows with some awesome rainbow STEM activities that will engage preschoolers and have them begging for more.

Tara

Tara is the brains behind Homeschool Preschool, where her journey from preschool and public school teacher to homeschooling mom of three fuels her passion for early childhood education. With a blend of expertise and firsthand experience, Tara’s writings offer practical tips and engaging resources to support families in creating meaningful learning adventures at home.