At the last library Explorer's Club, the kiddos learned about weather. The planned activity was to make a rooster weather vane. Boogs was very excited about making the weather vane and putting it "up on the roof". Our librarian quickly discouraged this idea and suggested that everyone fine a nice flat spot in their yard to stick their weather vane. When we got home, Boogs had me get out a compass to line up the placement of his weather vane.
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| Color a rooster and then cover it with contact paper to help "weather proof" it. Cover an arrow with tinfoil. |
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| Take a skewer and wind a rubber band near one end, next poke a cup onto the skewer, add another rubber band to hold the cup in place, put a bead on the skewer, then slide a straw (attached to the rooster and tinfoil covered arrow) over the skewer. The rooster and arrow will now spin freely when you blow air on them. |
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| The cup has N, E, S, W written on its base. You just have to line them up properly when you poke the skewer in the your yard at home. |
Boogs, and most of the other children, needed quite a bit of help to complete this project. We had fun working on it together.
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