🌧 Race the Raindrops
A whole rainy morning's worth of racing, and nothing to tidy.
🔍 Discover·10 min·Free·Ages 1–5·👶 Easy·🧑 Light
⚠️ Safety first
Watch through a closed window; keep children away from open windows, cords, and climbable sills.
You know your child best — supervise the whole time and skip anything that isn't right for them. See our Terms.
Why this is good for your child
- ✓Observation
- ✓Prediction
What you need
A rainy window
How to do it
- 1.Each of you picks a drop at the top of the glass.
- 2.Follow them down with a finger.
- 3.Cheer whichever reaches the bottom first.
How it actually goes
- ⏱ 30-second set-up —
- Thirty seconds: put a rainy window on a tray or a clear bit of floor, and sit down next to it before you call them over.
- 🧑 What you do —
- Show it once, slowly, without talking over yourself. Then hand it over and stop helping unless they ask.
- 👶 What they do —
- Touch, shake, sort and compare until it makes sense to them.
- ✅ What success looks like —
- At 1–2 they'll tip it out and put nothing back. That's the work — emptying comes long before filling.
- 🧺 How to put it away —
- Everything back into one basket or tray, carried back to its spot by them. Naming the spot out loud is what makes it stick.
- 📈 When they outgrow it —
- Older? Add a blindfold or a guessing round — same thing, harder.