All this activity takes is some chalk and a sunny day. Ask your child to locate their shadow.
Guiding questions:
What does your shadow look like?
Can you make your shadow bigger? Smaller?
Can you find a place where your shadow disappears?
What happens when our shadows come together?
Whose shadow is larger?
Can one person hide in another person's shadow?
Can you make your shadow wiggle? Run? Hold very still?
Trace around child's feet with chalk as they stand in the sun. Trace their shadow standing still. Point out where the sun is. Several time during the day, return and stand in the footprints to see what happens. Trace the new shadow with a new color of chalk. Look at the sun's position.
*Extension: Play "catch a shadow" with friends.
*Extension: Read Robert Louis Stevenson's My Shadow
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