Making Sun Prints

A fun sunny day activity

• Review the fingerplay, “Singing Time”  by Rose Fyleman

                         I wake up in the morning early

                         And always the very first thing

                         I poke up my head and I sit up in bed

                         And I sing and I sing, and I sing.

• Ask a child some ways that they know it is morning (daylight outside, smell of breakfast, sun is out, alarm clock rang, etc.)
• This activity needs a sunny day, dark construction paper, and five to eight small different objects that will fit on the paper - small block, scissors, small toys like a match box car, glue stick, etc.
• Place the paper with the objects on top in a spot where the sun will shine for a few hours
• Afterwards have child remove one object and see if the spot is darker than the rest of the paper
• Remove all the objects looking at the darker shapes left on the paper.  
• Talk about the strength of the sunlight and needing protection from the sun. Share that we live on a planet called Earth that moves around the Sun which is a yellow star.
• Ask child to place the objects back on the paper, matching the shapes to the objects