Learning about Solar Energy with Kids
The sun is a pretty amazing and powerful bundle of energy. It can turn your skin pink if you do not protect yourselves, it can make fabric color lighter if left on the clothes line too long, it heats things up, and it can even power homes.
Learn about Solar Panels with Kids
Sun Activities for Kids Learning about Solar Energy
Let’s celebrate sunny days and the gifts that the sun’s energy gives us!!! What can you do???
1. Sun Prints
You could talk to your kids about the sun and have them make sun-prints. We used the solar sun print kit, but should have just bought the re-fill package ($5.99 vs $10.49) as we just used the paper.
2. Clothesline Fun
3. Experiment with Solar Powered Lights
Purchase solar powered outdoor lights for your home walkway. Have your kids help you install them!
4. Sun Craft
Make a craft sun and sing, “Oh Mister Sun” (Kim did this every year with her kindergarten class!)
4. Solar Powered Oven
Make a Solar Powered Oven, Like the one at PBS Zoom, or this one here, or better yet – have the kids design their own! Here’s how ours turned out.
5. Sun Shapes with Math
Connect the concept of the sun to your math lessons about shape, sizes, and colors. Make your own using pattern blocks (yes, you know we love these!)
your sun is cute:) I've pinned this already!!
~MiaB
I love your sun, too! And I love line-drying clothes – can't wait for it to warm up enough to hang clothes out to dry here!
What a great collection of sunny day activities!! It brings back such fond memories for me since we had a sunny day play date with my daughter's old playgroup, and we did some of the same activities. We were singing "Mr Sun" for weeks after the play date. =)
Oh, I wish we could get solar panels too. We researched it but, our electric company isn't as friendly to them and doesn't give credits and charges a pretty steep monthly fee for "maintenance", so it actually made it not economically feasible especially considering the cost of the panels. =(
Fantastic post full of great ideas! I love that you went solar! 🙂
My eldest daughter loves looking at the weather radars on our computer when a storm is coming. She would love to learn all about those graphs you have for your solar panels. Great list of sun inspired activites.
A well thought-out collection of sun activities. We too want to put in solar panels here too. Each year the incentives get better and the costs come down. You are showing your children about the sun…and about taking care of our earth too.
We've never used solar print paper! I didn't even know it existed! I am so excited to pick some up and do this with my boys. This is right up their alley!!
Oh, this makes me so nostalgic. I remember that paper from back in the day 🙂 Sounds like you all had a wonderful conversation and lots of fun!
Solar panel are a clean, efficient and sustainable ways to power your home or business, By using solar energy you are also greatly helping our environment by producing clean energy from a Renewable source. We should encourage more people using it in the life.
Amazing article. Sharing this on Pinterest!!
Great and helpful blog to everyone.. thanks a lot for sharing.
Awesome collection of activities, They can help us to spend some time with our kids and we can give some idea of solar energy to them. This is everything that we need for our holiday time to spend with our little partners. I love this site. Worth to #BOOKMARK keeps sharing such things.
I’m glad I stumbled upon your post, anything about happy children and go-green attitude uplift my spirit. I like all your suggested activities, I will try to do some with mine. I agree, solar panels are great investment, and I think teaching our children how to take care and appreciate their environment at an early age is one beautiful gift to enrich.