Teach students how to make snowflakes by cutting construction paper that has been folded over. This is a great way to explain how each snowflake in nature is unique, and that by folding and cutting colored construction paper everyone can make one-of-a-kind snowflakes of his or her own. To begin the lesson, tell students to fold a single sheet of construction paper in half two to four times. Give them free reign to cut out shapes and snip off ends as they see fit. When they are done, unfold their snowflakes and hang them from the ceiling with string.
This art project teaches students about wind and the four directions, and also gives them something they can use at home. Ask students to staple or glue construction paper longways to make an open circle, and let them decorate it like a cloud, bumble bee or anything else related to the sky. Once the paper is glued or stapled together, have them attach long strips of ribbon or tissue paper to form the windsock's tail. Students can hang these outside their homes or classroom to always know which way the wind is blowing.
Use prisms or glasses of water to teach children how rainbows are created in nature and have them create some of their own with paint. On a sunny day, have children observe how light "refracts," or bends, through the water or a prism to make a line of colors on a white piece of paper. Explain how sunlight does the same thing through rain drops and mist to create arcs of color in the sky. Have them paint rainbows with the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet in watercolors, acrylics or finger paints.
Pair a weather lesson about the many different types of clouds with an art project that has children create clouds of their own out of cotton balls. Cumulus clouds are usually the most well-known types of clouds, and children can make this type of cloud by gluing cotton balls on blue construction paper in familiar shapes. Stratus clouds can be made by stretching cotton balls out and cirrus clouds can be created by pulling out thin strands of a cotton ball to create an airy, wispy formation.