All You Need is Paper (and a little love) ESL/EFL activities

My third-grade class is studying the water cycle. We made 3D clouds by folding a sheet of paper twice in the middle, drawing a cloud, and cutting it out so we had 4 exact-shaped clouds. Then, we folded each one in the middle and glued only half of each cloud to the other to form this cool-looking rain cloud. We used blue paper to give everything a rainy day effect. Last, we drew raindrops falling from the cloud and wrote the sentence: rain comes from clouds. It was pretty easy for students to make and they could practice reading, writing, and speaking.  

Here's another idea to practice talking about the weather. I used a strip of a thin cardboard from a cake box I had. I stapled the strip to make a circle and cut 2 slits on the sides so I could insert different clouds: cloudy, snowy, rainy. I glued a blue paper circle on the back and drew the house and the full moon on the same thin cardboard and glued them onto the blue background. I also glued a string to the back to be able to hang the craft somewhere. I used creative paper for the clouds. Since I made this last year, I ended up hanging it on my Christmas tree. So, the idea is to insert or better have your students insert the different clouds and ask each other: How's the weather? You can also let them be creative and instead of a house, they can draw something else, like a tree or a pet. Enjoy! 😊

My first grade bilingual class made this 3D cactus to practice answering how's the weather . The city we live in is known for its hot and dry days so the craft was very appropriate. Since they had been online for more than a semester, it was pretty easy for them to follow all the steps from the slides.  I made the vase from an oatmeal box. A cereal box works perfectly too. You need 3 circles for each part of the cactus so the students need 9 circles total. Everything except the vase was made on creative paper, then cut out and glued onto the orange paper which I thought gave the idea that it was a hot day but it's okay if the don't have orange paper. They can use another color as the base paper or color a white sheet. We all loved the final product. 😍        

Weather vocabulary is always taught in EFL classes, no mater the age. I made some paper props to use with my students in my classes, slides and in my videos. The cactuses I made on white paper with markers and crayons and glued them onto cardboard to make them last longer. The cactus flower is a bottle cap glued onto the cactus. The rain is made from Q-tips.  I always have my students tell me at the beginning of the class how the weather is. Many times now with our online classes, they'll take their phones or tablets to their windows and show my how the day looks from their house or apartment. How's the weather over where you are now?