To teach about cold and warm fronts, use one blue and one red piece of paper. Holding them together, cut in half. Then with one half-blue and one half-red held together, cut a swerving diagonal. Do the same with the other pair. Fit them together on a plain page to demonstrate how air masses come together. Glue a blue thread to demonstrate the cold front, and a red thread to demonstrate the warm front.

When introducing cloud types, this fun cotton ball project is a great way to give children hands-on learning.

To help children remember which type of cloud is which, use these examples:

Cumulus sounds like cute.

Stratus sounds like stretched out.

Cirrus sounds like circus (where you get cotton candy that looks like cirrus clouds).

To make the stratus clouds, tug gently at the cotton ball to find the end. Slowly unravel it until you have a ribbon of cotton.