DLTK's Crafts for Kids
March Weather
For young children, you may just want to make the coloring page or the craft,
but for older children (age 4+), I've included some additional fun activities
related to weather, graphing and observations.
The old saying goes... if March comes in like a lion, it will go out like a
lamb.
Talk to your children about what this might mean? What aspects of
weather determine its ferocity or gentleness?
Draw a two column table on the chalkboard (or a piece of paper). Call
one side LION and one side LAMB. List elements of weather like
temperature, wind, rain, snow, etc that fit on each side.
Make the lion and lamb
paper plate crafts
or make the lion and lamb
paper crafts
 
choose a particular time of day (right before lunch or supper are good times
as it will help engage/include the children in dinnertime conversation).
Each day at the given time have the child hang the appropriate lamb/lion face in
a special location.
You can also do a bit of math/graphing practice by providing the child with
the lion/lamb template below. Each day, have them color one of the squares
on either the lion or the lamb side (depending on what the weather is like).
Make a note at the top of the graph about whether March 1st is a lamb or a
lion day. Then see if March 31st is the opposite.
If you want to throw in a bit of science, you can tell them that we're
charting our observations to help prove or disprove the the "in like
a lion, out like a lamb" saying.
Lion/Lamb Graph and Coloring Page
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Close the template window after printing to return to this
screen.
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Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the
template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most
browsers).
Graph template color
or B&W
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