On a windy day…. Like today……. why not make yourself a wind vane. A wind vane is used to show the direction of the wind. Wind vanes are mounted so they can spin under the influence of the wind..

Picture of weather vane on a post in the garden

I need:

leaf 🍃

straw or small stick

pin📌

scissors ✂️

tape or glue

An adult to help with cutting and pushing the pin through the stick/ straw if required

Cut out the leaf shapes for each end of the wind vane and fix in place with tape. The arrow end needs to be a little bigger than the tail end to ensure it is pushed by the wind to point in the direction the wind blows.

Push the pin through the straw/ stick. Make sure the straw/ stick can spin freely

Place the pin on a stick or post (see picture above)

Picture of wind vane resting on stone

Find a suitable spot in the garden to put the weather vane and then watch it spin.

Vocabulary: windy, blow, spin, turn, stick, leaf

Tricky Words: sheltered, exposed, compass

Or why not practise being like the wind and huffing and puffing and blowing the weather vane round and round and round…. How fast can you make it spin

Extension Activity: get a compass and work out which direction the wind is blowing.

By Sarah Winstanley, SaLT

Communication Lincs Ltd. ……..because Speech Therapy Matters