52 Series: Rainy Day Activities

By Lynn Gordon and Susan Synarski

52 Rainy Day Activites features an array of enjoyable and imaginative things to do. This fun pack is ideal for children (and their parents) stuck inside on a rainy day.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chronicle Books Digital
• Release date: Mar 25, 2011
• ISBN: 9781452103891

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Fairy Garden

Materials: Small boxes; Tempera paint; Glue; Scissors; Rocks; Large aluminum tray or other container; Grass seeds and dry beans; Dirt or potting soil; Odds and ends to make furniture from

Stack up the small boxes to make a fairy house. Glue the boxes together. Cut out windows and doorways if you want. Paint your house. Use all the things you’ve found to make the furniture for the fairies. Fill the aluminum tray with potting soil. Press rocks into the dirt in the middle. Put your house on the rocks so it won’t get wet when you water your plants. Sprinkle grass seeds or beans on the dirt around the house. Water the seeds. Place in a sunny spot and watch as plants grow up around your fairy house. Look for tiny footprints.

Seed and Pasta Pictures

Materials: Pie tins; Glue; Paintbrush; Heavy paper; Different kinds of dry beans, rice, lentils, seeds, and small pasta; Black permanent marker

Put your various beans and seeds in separate pie tins or boxes. Draw a picture on blank paper and outline it with black permanent marker. Using a paintbrush, paint all the areas you would like covered with one kind of seed with glue. Sprinkle that seed onto the page and tilt it back and forth until the areas painted with glue are completely covered. Pour excess seeds back into the pie tin. Repeat with a different seed or bean until you have used all the different kinds and covered all the areas in your picture. If you forget a spot, you can always repeat a kind of seed.

Silly Endings

Materials: Favorite storybook; Paper and pen

To play silly endings, read through half of your favorite (short) story aloud and then take turns making up the ending. You can also play this with everybody, writing down endings and then reading them aloud.