There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Shell Week: Thursday!

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Shell Week:

Thursday!

Crafts:

• Sand Art: Large paper cups, fine sand, water, food coloring(green, blue, yellow), plastic spoons, paper towels, glass bottle with cork or jar with lid, bamboo skewers

For Sand:

1. Fill each paper cup halfway with sand.
2. Add enough water to each cup to completely cover the sand.
3. Stir each cup with a plastic spoon and set aside for a half hour while the sand absorbs the color.
4. Pour the excess water off the sand.  Scoop the sand out onto paper towels and allow the sand to dry completely.  You may want to prep the colored sand the day before, to make sure it's completely dry before kids work with sand.

For Sand Art:

1. The effect will differ depending on the shape of your jar or bottle,  but the technique is the same.  Add layers of different colored sand to create a pattern.  You can make straight horizontal layers, or change the pattern by tilting the bottle/jar as you pour another layer or poking a bamboo skewer along the edges after each layer to create a wavy effect.
2. Fill to the top and screw lid on jar or place cork in the top of the bottle.

• Shell Pots: Acrylic paint(any colors), shells(any size), glue, terra-cotta flowerpots

1. Paint pots, let dry.
2. Glue shells on pots and let dry.  

• Fish Plate:  Plate, tape or glue, paint or markers, scissors

1. Cut triangle from a plate, for the mouth of fish.
2. Tape or glue triangle to plate to form the tail.
3. Paint or draw scales and eye.

• Shell Sculture: Shells, glue, felt, scissors, thin cardboard

1. Make a shell picture with the shells.  You can make flowers with the shells, animals(like mice, octopus)
2. You can make a mouse by using a shell that looks like a mouse body.  Glue 2 small on top of the body.  Glue on gogglie eyes.  Use a piece of yarn for the tail.

Activities:

• Sparkling Cakes: Cake(of your choice), bowl, spoon, 225 g(8 oz) icing sugar, 2-3 tablespoons water, blue edible glitter, foil parasol, glitter glue, sequins for paper cases, plain paper cake cases

1. Make your cake following instructions on the box.  Leave cupcakes to cool on a wire rack.
2. Meanwhile, make the icing by mixing the icing sugar with the water.  When the cakes are cool, spread the tops with icing.
3. Sprinkle each cake generously with edible blue glitter.
4. Decorate the paper cases with glitter glue and finish with a foil parasol.
5. You can use sequins, glitter glue and pre-gummed shapes to make a plain paper case look eye-catching.

• Sand Colors: Handful of sand, sheet of dark paper, magnifying lens

1. Place sand on the sheet of paper.
2. Scatter the sand with your hand and look at the grains under the magnifying lens.  What colors and variations of colors do you see?

When you look closely at the grains of sand, you noticed that they were not all the same color.  The color of each grain depends upon the materials form which the sand came.  Quartz is translucent(light shines through it) white, tan, or yellow.  Feldspar is gray or pink.  Fragments of seashells are usually white opaque (light does not shine through them). Some beaches even have black sand, which comes from volcanic ash. 

• Wind Waves: Large, shallow cake pan, tap water, drinking straw

1. Fill the cake pan with tap water.
2. Hold one end of the drinking straw close to the water.
3. Blow air through the straw on the water's surface, sometimes softly.  What happens as you blow on the water?

By blowing on the water, you produced waves on the top of the water.  The energy of the air pushes the water, creating waves.  This energy increases as the speed of the air increases.  The height of the waves changes according to the amount of air blowing on the surface.  As the energy passes through the water, ripples of waves move through the water.

• Castle Of Cups: Plastic cups

1. Have your child stack plastic cups to make a castle.
2. How high can they build their castle.
3. You can even time them and see how far they get too.

Snacks:

• Cupcakes
• Fish and chips

Education: 

Letters/Words

• Word Of The Day: Index card, Pen

1. This
2. Work with your child on this word and their past words.  
3. See how many sentences you can make with the words now.

• Go Fish Word Game: Index cards, black marker

1. Just like go fish but with words.
2. On the top left corner of the index card write a word like this and write the same word on the bottom right hand corner.  You can cut the index cards down to make them smaller if you want.  You will have to make two cards for each word.
3. Make cards for all the words your child knows now.
4. Have your child decorate the backs of each card if you want.  They can draw on it, add stickers, use stamps, whatever they wish.
5. Shuffle cards.  Deal five cards to each player.  The object of the game is to get as many pairs as possible.  For example: "Do you have a this?" The player asking must have the mate in his hand.  The player who is asked must give up the card if they have the card.  If the first player does not get the card asked for, he draws on card from the pile.  If the player succeeds in getting the card asked for, either from another player or from the pile, he gets another turn.  As soon as the player gets a pair, he put is down in front of them.  
6. If a player is not able to get a matching pair, then the next player gets a turn at asking for a card.  
7. The player with the most pairs wins. 

Numbers

• Play a game of hopscotch 

• Number Hunt: Old store ads, coupons, magazines, paper, pen

1. Have your child look through the stuff above and search for all the ones.  Write down how many ones they found.  Do this for all the numbers.  
2. Then, try finding all the twos.
3. Next, find the threes.
4. Go on to the fours, fives, sixes, sevens, eights and nines.
5. Which number did they find the most? Least? Same?

Music:

If I lived under the sea, sea, sea,
I think it would be neat as it could be, be, be.
I could visit all the fish,
Anytime I wish,
If I lived under the sea.

I could ride on the tail,
Of a great big whale
Wow! that would be great!
I could count the legs
On an octopus,
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8!

If I lived under the sea, sea, sea,
I think it would be neat as it could be, be, be.
I could visit all the fish,
Anytime I wish,
If I lived under the sea.

It would be so new,
To watch a tuna,
Talking to an itty bitty snail!
Or to see the pretty fin,
On the back of a fish,
Who carries his very own sail!

If I lived under the sea, sea, sea,
I think it would be neat as it could be, be, be.
I could visit all the fish,
Anytime I wish,
If I lived under the sea.

I could visit all the fish,
Anytime I wish,
If I lived under,
If I lived under,
If I lived under the sea.

Song found on PBSKids Website.  On the website you can hear how the song goes too.

Rhyme:

Once I caught a Fish Alive

One, two, three, four, five.

Once I caught a fish alive,

Six, seven, eight, nine ,ten,

Then I let it go again.

Why did you let it go?

Because it bit my finger so.

Which finger did it bite?

This little finger on the right.

Rhyme found on Rhymes website

Books:

• A Sea Wishing Event by Robert Heidbreder
• Sponge Bob Books 

Some ideas were found in the following books:

• Nature In A Nutshell For Kids by Jean Potter
• Creative Crafts For Kids by Hamlyn
• Rosie O'Donnell's Crafty U

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Shell Week: Thursday!