We love sharing crafts for toddlers and you guys always seem to love them too so today I’ve got some easy and fun weather crafts for toddlers and preschoolers to share, with simple ideas for sun, rain, snow and thunder crafts that are perfect for learning about the weather through play.
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Easy Weather Crafts
These easy weather crafts that I’m sharing today are suitable for toddlers aged one to three and preschoolers aged three to five.
They’re great for home learning, preschools, nurseries and weather-themed units as well as just for doing some easy crafts at home with your child.
In this round up you’ll also find a lot of weather crafts that I did with my own children so you know that they’ve definitely been tried and tested!
As always, if you are doing any kind of craft or activity with a toddler or preschooler please ensure that they are supervised throughout, especially when using small parts or scisssors.
Sun and Rainbow Weather Crafts
Paper Plate Sun
This handprint sun craft was a craft made by my son and my daughter together when she was one and he was four years old making it a great collaborative project for younger kids.
Potato Masher Rainbow Craft
With younger kids it’s definitely helpful to be able to prepare activities quickly and using craft supplies that you can find around your home easily certainly helps!
This rainbow potato masher craft is a really simple activity to do with toddlers and is one that I did at home with my daughter.
Rainbow Crafts
Grab our free rainbow template and make some simple rainbow crafts for kids.
Potato Masher Sun Craft
Potato mashers are great for toddlers to craft with as they have nice big handles and I love this craft from Happy Toddler Playtime.
Coffee Filter Sun Craft
Look We’re learning shares and easy step by step tutorial for how to make a cute sun craft using coffee filters and construction paper.
Rain and Cloud Crafts for Toddlers
Rain Art
Grab one of our free templates, some markers and then just wait for the rain to start to make this fun rain art, it’s a great excuse to get outdoors too!
Cloud Binocular Craft
Toilet paper roll crafts are often a popular choice for toddler and preschooler crafts as not only are they cheap and a great way to use up recycled materials they’re also really durable too.
These binoculars would be super cute for observing at cloud formations and would be a great addition to any weather unit.
Rain Cloud Craft
This rain craft is not only easy to create but it’s also super easy to adapt too as you could use pom poms, q-tips or finger painting to make the raindrops.
Paper Plate Umbrella
Paper plate crafts have always been really popular here (cheap crafts are always a good idea with kids!) and my kids enjoyed making these paper plate umbrellas which are good when you’re talking about rain!
Snow and Winter Weather Crafts
Paper Plate Snowflakes
These paper plate snowflakes are ones that I made at home with my own kids. They’re easy to decorate and a great way to use up any leftovers currently in your craft supplies.
Winter Tree Crafts
We’ve used our free tree printable for a couple of crafts and it’s perfect for snowy pictures like these winter tree painting ideas.
You can use basic craft materials and white paint to create a variety of tree crafts covered in white snow.
Bubble Wrap Painted Snowman
This bubble wrap snowman is nice and easy for kids to make, younger toddlers will need you to do the cutting but all ages can paint the bubble wrap.
Snowflake Paper Plate Twirler
Older children can use this as a way to practice using scissors while younger kids can decorate the paper plate with stickers, a great way to practice their fine motor skills too.
Scrunched Paper Snowman
Grab the tissue paper and make this sweet scrunched paper snowman that’s made using tissue paper.
Storm and Thunder Crafts
Thundercloud Craft
Using a paint splat is definitely a classic craft technique and one that I’m sure that I did when I was at preschool too!
This paint splat thundercloud and lightning craft is great for little hands to make and super simple to create.
Thunderstorm Art Project
This thunderstorm art from Buggy and Buddy uses gorgeous bright colours as well as the obvious grey and is a great way to help teach younger kids about color mixing.
Weather Books for Toddlers
We love sharing books together and these weather books look like great fun!
- Maisy’s Wonderful Weather Book by Lucy Cousins
- Hello World! Weather by Jill McDonald
- What Is The Weather Today by Scholastic
More Easy Crafts and Activities for Toddlers
These fruit activities for toddlers are super simple and lots of fun.
While these flower activities for toddlers look super pretty, I love the sticky walls and sensory play ideas too!
Finally you’ll find all our crafts for toddlers right here.
