This time around the fascination is hurricanes. What to do to indulge a four-year-old's obsession? Well, read books, first of all, and then patiently explain again and again that hurricane categories only go up to 5, and that there could not possibly be a Category 917. And then you just give in and say, "Yep, absolutely, a Category 917 hurricane is possible and would wipe out the whole planet. You're right, son."And then you come up with a project using the simplest materials possible, execute, and call it a successful study.
Paper plates, blue paint, a Q-tip and cottonballs. Doesn't get any easier than that. Tell the kids they're satellites looking down into the hurricane, outline the eye and the swirls of the wind, then shred cottonballs and stick 'em on the circling lines. And just for extra fun I made the six-year-old write hurricane-related vocab words on another painted plate. Easy, fun, cute, and quite possibly educational. What we're reading:
Hurricanes, by Gail Gibbons
Hurricanes, by Seymour Simon
Hurricanes (What on Earth?), by Catherine Chambers
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