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Home | Store | Forum | What's New | Contact | About | Terms | Links | Storytime | Rhymes  Rhymes Activity printables, counting songs and poems for preschool nursery        Rain drop nursery rhyme This interactive counting song is perfect for sharing children's names within a large or small group or playing in pairs! In addition to this and along with a sea of netting positioned on the ground, a cloud filled with raindrops and a warm smiling sun you can explore the cycle of water whilst having fun with numbers! 10 little raindrops sitting in a cloud ready steady, time to go, we're falling to the ground! Then along came xx with an outstretched hand, caught a little raindrop, (turn hand over) and watched where it would land Once all the raindrops have been caught/tipped out onto the floor's netting, finish off the rhyme with the evaporation, condensation and precipitation lines. The sun came out and warmed the drops and slowly takes them up. The sky clouds grow as the air turns cold and raindrops start to show. Resources for this activity  White or blue netting this catches the raindrops that children tip from their hands onto the floor. Picking everything up at the end of the game helps to demonstrate how the sun 's warmth evaporates water taking the vapour up into the sky to form clouds that again develop raindrops.  Raindrop templates  Raindrop rhyme card printable  Water cycle science experiment   This raindrop numberline is on playdough-activities.com Print and use it with gems or laminate to count out hydrated aqua beads   Raindrop outline templates - general colouring & collage   Setting up Make any number of raindrops by printing the sheet, cutting and folding so that the droplets back onto the blue section. Secure the two sides together with stick glue and cut out the shapes. Laminate to strengthen them and ff attaching string, punch a small hole near the tip. Make a rain cloud stand by folding up 4cm of an A4 sheet of card. Draw cloud shapes along the long edge and cut away, sticky tape the two outer edges to the main sheet so a slot is created.  Then fold the rest of the card in half so that it stands up. With a pen draw the outline of a cloud just about the cut outline. Store the raindrops in the slot until each child comes alomg to catch one. Print the rhyme card, sun and cut out. Lay the netting on the ground so that the raindrops tipped from children's hands are caught and at the end of the game the netting can be gathered up whilst the ladt two lines of the rhyme are read. This helps to demostrate how rain drops evaporate into vapour rise and then condensate to form clouds and precipitation. The cycle of water and preschool science Experiment with evaporation to see how long it takes for a measure of water to either 'vanish' (if a hole is punched in the top of the bag) or see  the evaporation & condensation process in action within the bag. Print the project slip and sticky tape it to the back of an A5 sized grip seal bag. Pour in water to the fill line (approx 200ml) or less. Then secure the top and tape the bag securely to a glass window. More raindrop themed activities  Raindrop and umbrella playdough game  Rain, rainbows and weather themed preschool picture story books Rain themed rhymes   Doctor foster went to Gloucester     Rain Rain go away chant