Materials

You need something to be the “chicken." This can be a rubber chicken, a towel with a knot tied in the middle, a ball, etc. Use your imagination.

Instructions

1. Choose somebody to be “It”.
2. Define the boundaries of the play area.
3. Give the “chicken” to somebody who is not it.
4. “It” tries to tag the other players. “It” can tag anyone except the person currently in possesion of the “chicken".
5. The players work together, throwing the “chicken" to the person being chased to prevent “it” from tagging them.
6. When somebody is tagged, they must sit on the side of the play area.
7. Last person not to be tagged wins. He or she gets to be “It” for the next round

Notes

This game is meant to teach teamwork. However with younger children, some might not want to throw the chicken. If this is the case, make the rule that nobody can keep the chicken for more than the count of three.

Another option is to have multiple chickens and only the people with the birds can be tagged. Know your group and adjust the rules as necessary.

Blotting paper (pink colored). Watercolor paper will also work

cobalt chloride

water

paper

paints

paintbrushes

Instructions for making flower indicator.  Instead of making the flower, paint a scene on the blotting paper with the blue cobalt/pink paper as the sky.

Dissolve common salt or cobalt chloride in some water to make a saturated solution. Make a flower form out of a pink colored blotting paper. Cut the blotting paper into petal shaped pieces of varying sizes from small to bigger ones. Arrange them according to size keeping the smallest on the top and the biggest below them, with the help of a wire fix them up so that the wire acts as the stem of the flower. Fix a few green colored leaves to the stem in order to make it as real as possible. 
Soak the pink blotting paper in saturated salt solution or cobalt chloride solution.
After drying your own weather forecaster is now ready to use.
Working:
The petals of this flower will change colors indicating impending weather. In fine weather the flower will be white with the dry salt crystals, but on a rainy day and damp weather, the flower petals will turn deep pink. If you have used cobalt chloride the flower will turn blue on a wet day.
Precaution:
- If you are using cobalt chloride in making this, then handle it with care(as this is a laboratory chemical), it may cause allergy in some cases so it is better to take the help of some elder.
- To be on the safer side use common salt in place of cobalt chloride.

1. Start by getting a collection of clothes that are appropriate for all weather conditions, bathing suits, hats, scarves, shorts, raincoats, sunglasses, etc. You can ask for donations from parents, friends or purchase some second hand items at a thrift store. Put them all into a large bin and place them at the front of the class. Then divide your class into two teams and have each team chose a volunteer to stand up front with the collection of clothing. The rest of the class should line up at the back of the room in teams. For each round, you will announce a weather condition and one person from each team should run up to the front of the room. They must then run up to the person on their team who is standing by the clothing and chose an item that is appropriate for that type of weather. The runner must then place the item on the other student without the other student’s assistance. The first person to choose an appropriate item of clothing for his teammate and put in on the teammate appropriately scores a point for the team. Continue until everyone has had a turn or until you have used all your weather words. The team with the most points wins.
   

Water

Jar

Food colouring

Shaving cream

Thermometer x 2

Plastic bag

Board

Oil/Flour glue

String 

Set up the below experiments at the start of Cubs and go back to them at this stage of the programme to get the results. 

Greenhouse Effect:

1. Put one of the thermometers in the plastic bag and tie the bag so it is airtight

2. Put the bag in direct sunlight for about 10 minutes

3.  Put the other thermometer beside the bag

4.  Wait for 10 to 15 minutes and then look at the two temperatures.

5.  What do you notice?

When the sunlight travels into the plastic bag, the light turns into heat. The inside of the bag gets hotter because the air can't escape quickly enough.  The sunlight does the same thin when it enters Earth's atmosphere.  This is called the greenhouse effect.

 Air Pollution:

1.  Take the piece of white cardboard/board and put a hole in the top and tie it on.

2.  Paint one side of the board with glue/oil

3.  Hang the piece of board outside for about an hour (longer if the day is not windy)

4.   Look at what is stuck to the board and see what the wind has been carrying 

There will be seeds, leaves, maybe some insects.   Look for dust and smog and talk about what air pollution and what we can see on the board that tells us how clean/dirty the air is.

Rain:

1.  Pour water into the glass/jar, leaving about an inch from the rim 

2.  Carefully add a layer of shaving cream to the water. Be sure not to make it too thick or you’ll find you’re having to wait a long time for the magic to begin and that’s a bit boring. The shaving cream represents a cloud and the water is the atmosphere. 

3. Simply add a few drops of blue food colouring to the shaving cream. The weight of the food colouring will start to push through the shaving cream and fall down through the water that’s in the glass! This will look just like streaks of rain falling.  

Some additional easy experiments:

 Clouds:

1.  Pour a little bit of warm water into the bottle, just enough to cover the bottom

2. Light a match and let it burn for a little while

3. Blow the match out and immediately let the smoke fill the bottle.  The smoke will clear quite quickly but there will be invisible particles floating in the bottle.

4. Screw the cap on the bottle and try to keep as much smoke in the bottle as you can.

5.  Squeeze the bottle six or seven times.

 Tornado:

1.  Measure 1 teaspoon of washing up liquid and pour it into a bottle

2.  Drop in 5 small aluminium foil balls  into the bottle

3.  Fill the bottle with water

4.  Add a couple of drops of blue food colouring

5. Rotate the bottle and you should see a swirling motion that represents the motion of a tornado