Lets Think About...Air
Activities:
5. Air Can Be Used to Make Different Shapes
Blow air into latex gloves.
Use a rubber band to make them air tight.
Suggestion: use medical plastic gloves.
Allow children to handle and squeeze the inflated glove moving the air within it.
Question: What inside the glove is moving?
Select balloons of various sizes, shapes and colors.
Blow them up.
Compare the differences in the shapes and sizes of the balloons.
How does air help give a balloon its shape?
Using an eye dropper, place drops of watercolors on sheets of wax paper.
Provide each child with a straw.
Let them blow through the straw and watch how the air can move the water
colors making different shapes.
