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Children will get answers to common questions about clouds.

Vocabulary: droplets, solid, fog

Science Focus: weather

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• When a little girl gets her very own cloud, she makes sure to take good care of it. But what happens when the cloud keeps growing?

• Make a cloud in a jar with this quickie science experiment! You will need a glass jar with a lid, a cup of hot water, ice cubes, and hairspray.
• Pour the water into the jar and swirl it around. Turn the lid upside down and put it on top of the jar. Place ice cubes on the lid and wait about 20 seconds. Remove the lid, quickly spray a little hairspray into the jar, and replace the lid with the ice still on top.
• Watch the cloud form in the jar! Once the cloud fills the jar, you can remove the lid and watch the cloud escape into the air!

• Use pages 2-3 of the issue to do this scavenger hunt as a group.

1. Find the heading. Underline it.
2. Find the picture that shows fog. Put a ✔on it.
3. In the purple box, find the word that means “tiny drops.” Circle it.
4. Look at the bottom bar. Point to the clouds that are white and fluffy. What are those kinds of clouds called?

Skill: art, science, vocabulary

Materials: blue construction paper, large cotton balls, glue

• Invite kids to use cotton balls to make the three types of clouds they learned about in the issue! Give each child a sheet of blue construction paper to serve as a sky background. Set out glue so kids can glue their clouds onto the paper.
• To make cirrus clouds, have kids pull the cotton balls apart. They can separate them into pieces to make thin, wispy clouds.
• For cumulus clouds, they can leave the cotton balls whole. Have them glue the balls next to each other to create fluffy clouds.
• For stratus clouds, kids can pull the cotton balls apart to stretch them without separating them into pieces.
• Kids can write or dictate a label next to each kind of cloud.