ASK A GROWN-UP!
• You will need a plastic two-litre bottle, scissors, a grown-up (to help with the cutting), rolls of different-coloured sticky tape, • First, get your grown-up to cut off the top part of the bottle to form a funnel. Then, put the funnel into the bottom part of the bottle so it looks like the picture here! Use tape to hold the pieces in place. • Now it's time to put markings on your gauge! Fill your measuring jug to 250ml and pour it into your rain gauge. Mark this level with a piece of coloured tape and label it as ‘250 ml’. • Add another 250ml and mark that level with more tape, labelling it as 500ml. Keep filling your gauge and labelling the 750ml and 1000m levels with coloured tape. • Now empty out your rain gauge and find a good place to put it! Somewhere in a garden away from trees and buildings would be ideal. Check your rain gauge every day and record how much water is in it on the downloaded record sheet before emptying the water out and putting the gauge back in position.
