Cloud in a Bottle

The little voyagers are learning about clouds as part of their DIY Meteorologist badge.

We tried a "cloud in a bottle" experiment to learn about cloud formation last week, but we weren't happy with the outcome:

Lighting a stick on fire to create smoke...

When the stick didn't work, we tried paper. 

Squeezing the bottle, then releasing to get smoke sucked down inside...

And a little bit of a cloud. We could actually see it better than it appears in this photo, 

but I was still a bit disappointed, and I think the little voyagers were, too.

If I can find some matches, we might try another version of this experiment.

In the meantime, how about some cloud poetry?

This first poem is a hint for our art project for today. 

Does it remind you of It Looked Like Spilt Milk?

This poem by William Wordsworth is short, but lovely.

 

This final cloud poem is by Percy Bysshe Shelley. 

Long, but nice!