Rainy Days, Kindergarten

 My Kindergarten students have been learning about weather in their science class.  I thought this was a great time to do a rain art lesson.  I began this lesson by handing out stencils for the umbrellas.  The umbrellas were traced with pencil and colored with pastels.  The rainy background was done with liquid watercolors.  I encouraged the students to paint in vertical lines, so that it looked more like rain.  Some students got this, some did not.  However, they all turned out great anyway.