What can I use to make thunder sounds?

Making Thunder: Short Version

Grab sheets or towels from your house and give them some good, fast shakes. This is great for bigger, stronger children, especially if they work in pairs with each person hold a side of the sheet.
Use the surfaces around you.
You can also use just your body.

How do you make a thunderstorm with your hands?

How to Create a Thunderstorm:

Snap your fingers (the sound of light rain falling)
Clap your hands together.
Slap your hands on your legs (at this time a student can flick a light switch on and off to represent lightning).
Stomp your feet.

Why does Thunder make loud noises?

Thunder is produced as a sound wave. Just as friction causes noise when you rub your hands together, massive friction between neighboring air molecules produces the loud noise. The rapid expansion and subsequent contraction of air produces a sound wave that travels out from the source in all directions.

Does Lightning make noise?

Like an explosion, the rapidly expanding waves of compressed air create a loud, booming burst of noise. Because electricity follows the shortest route, most lightning bolts are close to vertical. The shock waves nearer to the ground reach your ear first, followed by the crashing of the shock waves from higher up.

What sound does a storm make?

Listen to a whistling wind storm. A lower pitch results when large open objects resonate, like air blown across a jug. These effects sometimes make whistling, whirring, or moaning sounds, the combination of many frequencies. Air rushing directly past your ear itself can also resonate and play its music.

What noise does Lightning make?

As Angela Fritz, atmospheric scientist and deputy weather editor at The Washington Post explains, the lightning sounds like a Civil War cannon for a number of reasons. “The sound is the air being heated to 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The air around the lightning bolt expands faster than the speed of sound, which creates a shock wave of thunder.