Whats the best way to explain a tornado to a 6 yr old.?

Answer 1

tell them its a big big strong wind that you need to stay away from.lol

Answer 2

Better yet is to explain what to do. First off it looks like a spinning funnel cloud. It can destroy what's in it's path. It is important to get to the southwest corner of a basement, if there is one, or if a building isn't nearby, lay in a ditch until the tornado passes. Tornadoes can travel at high speeds and be on you in no time.

If you live in an area where there are a lot of tornadoes, lay out an exit plan for safety if he is not with you (i.e what they do at school, with playmates).

Answer 3

I have a 3 year old brother, and I tried themeindzey's theory just now, and it works perfectly. My brother took it very well, and he's fascinated by them right now. Just log onto the computer with the six year old, look for pictures, video clips, and sounds of tornadoes and what damage they do, and explain to them that a tornado is a whole bunch of wind from clouds, moving very fast in circles that attack different places and destroy everything that is in it's path. The kid will kind of understand. If a three year old can, so will a six year old. Little kids are smarter than you think.

Answer 4

My wife is a pre-school science teacher. She has an excellent device that is simply a small plastic tube on which you can screw a soda bottle on each end. Fill one of the bottles with water. When you turn it upside down and give the bottle a little shake it forms a nice vortex.

You can then explain that under certain conditions the air can swirl around like that. When that happens it can pick up debris, throw heavy objects around and be quite dangerous.

You can probably make a similar device by gluing two bottle caps together and drilling a hole between them.

Answer 5

Take a 2 litter empty soda bottle, fill it with water and just a little salt, shake the bottle and it will create a "tornado" inside the bottle ... that makes a great visual then explain if they see a cloud in the sky like that, to take cover.

Answer 6

Tell the 6 year old that a cold and warm air meet up in the sky and make a tornado or look it up and summarize. A six year old can know a lot.

There's a good book on this stuff for kids called Our Seasons. You can find it on BookBoo.com in the children's section.

Good luck.

Answer 7

Like you would to anybody. If the child doesn't understand the first description, break it down for them a little more and keep doing so until they understand. Using larger words will increase their vocabulary. You don't have to tell them it's big bad swirly winds. A good bonding activity would be to sit down with the child and go online and both look it up on google. See if you can find a site that has pictures.

Answer 8

Show 'em...get a two 2-liter coke bottles, a 'tornado tube' (which is a plastic connector which will connect the two bottles), before you connect the bottles fill it with colored water, monopoly houses (not necessary but fun) or confettie/paper. Connect the two bottles, flip and swirl, it will create tornado in a bottle and you will be better to explain it to your child.

Answer 9

You can hit 2 birds w/ one stone here, tell him that when cold air meets some special warm air, they make a tornado, thus explaining tornados and sex with one shot!

Answer 10

Say it like this. When a lot of cold air meets a lot of warm air, It makes a tornado. a tornado is when air spins around realy fast.

Answer 11

A big tunnel of wind thats going really really fast and can hurt you if you dont be careful ( I know a lot about tornados because I live in Oklahoma)