Today we share with you a fun little song written by “Teacher Inger” at the Watering Whole. It’s simple, it’s fun, and it teaches our children all about the Water Cycle!

This song can be done as a finger play activity or whole body exercise with children as small raindrops on the floor, who then evaporate on tippy toes and fall back down to the floor at the end….

I’m a Little Raindrop
(to the tune of I’m a little Teapot)
I’m a little raindrop in a lake
(Start with hands and fingers on floor in our “lake”)
When I get hot I evaporate
(Wiggle fingers upwards)
Up into the sky I form a cloud
(Interlace fingers above head)
Then I fall back to the ground
(Wiggle fingers downwards like rain and “splash” onto floor)

Here is a fun and simple activity we have used in the past whilst learning all about the water cycle, rainfall and how clouds form! Get the children to dip cotton wool into blue coloured water and then let them squeeze out the water to make rain!

But why are these sensory and exploratory experiences so important?….Decades of research show the importance of active learning in early childhood – Children have to move, use their senses, experience, explore, interact with others, create and invent in order to grow and learn.