This activity can help children work on feelings, by expressing feelings through movement, dance and artwork.

Materials:

• Scarves, capes, or soft fabric
• Non-toxic crayons or markers
• Paper

Directions:

Talk to the children about the wind and how it blows -- hard and soft, up, down, sideways, etc. Do any of the children want to pretend to be a windstorm by flapping around with scarves, capes or pieces of the material? Encourage the children to make blowing sounds as they move. Can they show you the difference between a soft breeze and gusty wind?

Set some limits about this windy play. For instance, be sure the children know they can't knock over toys or scare other children as they pretend to be the wind.

To help quiet everyone down, you could suggest they pretend to be leaves that flutter about in a gentle breeze ... and settle to the ground. When the pretending is over, the children might like to use the markers or crayons to make a picture of a windstorm. Can they draw about the way they feel on a very windy day or when the wind has stopped blowing?

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