September 26, 2021

Spanish Weather Words And Activities For Kids

Learning Spanish through themes is one of the best ways to make language learning concrete.

Weather is an easily accessible theme to start with since the idea is so familiar to everyone – children and adults!

Using the Quick Start Guide, songs, websites and books, you can start talking in Spanish right away. Try to set aside time in the morning to observe the weather with your child everyday.

In this article we’ll go through the basic Spanish words and phrases used to talk about the weather and then I’ll share several Spanish resources that can support further work with weather vocabulary in Spanish.

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Spanish Weather Words

Here are some common Spanish weather words that you can start to practice with your child. Eventually you’ll want to add more targeted words depending on the season you’re in and the region that you live in. This list can help you get started with daily weather events.

Como es afuera? (What’s it like outside?)

Que tiempo hace hoy? (What’s the weather like today?)

el sol (the sun)

las nubes (the clouds)

la nieve (the snow)

la lluvia (the rain)

la tormenta (the storm)

el viento (the wind)

esta lloviendo (it’s raining)

esta diluviando (it’s pouring)

esta soleado (it’s sunny)

hace calor (it’s hot)

hace frio (it’s cold)

hace sol (it’s sunny)

Spanish Weather Quick Start Guide

There’s a lot of weather vocabulary and it can be overwhelming at first. I created a “Quick Start Guide” with some phrases, questions and answers that are already conjugated to help you start talking in Spanish right away.

You can refer to this guide for yourself if you’re learning Spanish as well. It can also be used as reference for your child. When they are first learning to talk about the weather, they can point to the relevant picture or read the Spanish translation.

Talking About The Weather With Children

You can start your days by asking your child about the weather and having them look out the window to observe. Go outside and take a look around.

Once you start a routine with your child, you can use common phrases and words each day to expand your weather study.

Here’s an example conversation that you could have with your child to practice:

“Que tiempo hace? Observa el cielo” (What’s the weather like? Look at the sky).

Show your child the quick start guide so they can indicate the weather and help them with one of the possible responses,

“Esta lloviendo. Hace mal tiempo” (It’s raining. It’s bad weather).

You can continue the conversation by asking about the temperature:

“Como es afuera? Cual es la temperatura? (What’s it like outside? What’s the temperature?)

And prompt them again with a response:

“Hace frio!” (It’s cold!”)

Once you start using these phrases daily, they’ll come more naturally and you and your child will start to memorize them.

As you become more proficient, you can research more Spanish vocabulary to support your talk about weather and clothes that you can wear to prepare for the weather.

Spanish Weather Songs

In order to boost your Spanish language time, it’s important to hear and engage with as much Spanish language as possible.

If you stick with the weather theme, there are several songs and websites that can support your vocabulary and learning.

Little Baby Bum: La Cancion de la Nieve

Little Baby Bum: Lluvia lluvia vete ya

Rockalinga: Que Tiempo Hace Hoy

Websites With Spanish Weather Content

There are a lot of great websites that have Spanish content related to weather. Here are a few of my favorite child friendly resources that you can use to extend your weather study.

thespanishexperiment.com – This is a great Spanish resource site! It has a whole section on weather vocabulary and weather learning, including popular words/phrases that you can listen to with their audioplay.

Netflix: The Magic School Bus Kicks Up A Storm (switch the audio to Spanish). Netflix is great about having Spanish translations for almost all of their shows, including the Magic School Bus series.

Brain Pop Espanol – We love this site and all of the informational videos that it has. There are videos on a variety of weather topics and they also include games and extension activities that you can do in Spanish.