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

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Shell Week

Friday!

Crafts:

• Shell Picture: All Sorts Shells(different sizes and colors), glue, box frame, yellow card stock, tape

1. Glue shells onto a piece of card stock, in a beautiful picture and/or arrangement.
2. Fix the card in a box frame deep enough for the 3D picture.  Tape it on back.

• Shell Box:  Small box with lid, paint, assorted shells, glue

1. Paint box, let dry.
2. Glue assorted shells all around the box, except on the box.  

• Shell Paper Weight: A medium-size wide-mouth jar with a leak-proof lid, shells: a variety of small and tiny ones, nonwater-soluble, clear-drying glue, extra-long tweezers(optional), a pile of beach rubble(finely crushed shells), non-floating glitter flakes, chlorine bleach, paint brush

1. Make sure the jar is perfectly clean.  Select shells to use to create your seascape.  It's a good idea to have one larger shell as a focal point.
2. Glue the large shell inside the bottom of the jar.  Then arrange the others around it.  Long tweezers may help as the jar gets crowded.  Allow the arrangement to dry completely.  
3. With the brush, dabble glue on the parts of the "sea bottom" that are still plain glass.  Be careful not to get glue on the shells.
4. Put in a handful of beach rubble.  Screw on the lid, shake the jar gently, then set it down to let the glue dry.  Repeat steps 3 and 4 until the bottom is completely covered.
5. When the glue is completely dry, add a tablespoon or so of glitter flakes.
6. Fill the jar to the brim with water plus 3 tablespoons of chlorine bleach, then screw the lid on securely.
7. Shake--and see the phosphorescent sea foam. 

Activities:

• Salt Sculpting: Glass jar with lid, salt, colored chalk

1. In a glass jar you can make patterns with salt that look like sand designs.
2. First, choose  a clean, dry jar.  
3. Place a handful of salt in a bowl and "mash" the salt with a stick of colored chalk.  Keep pressing the chalk into the salt until you get the depth of color you want.
4. Pour the colored salt gently into the jar.  Then color batches of salt different colors, and add more layers to your jar.  
5. As you add layers of different colors, you can make interesting designs by gently tipping the jar from side to side or by poking the layers just inside the glass with a stick to create jagged edges.
6. Treat your finished design very gently and place it in a spot where bumped.  Topping off your design by filling the jar to the very brim with either plain or colored salt before putting on the lid will also help to keep it from shifting.  

• Ocean Foam:  Egg, cold metal bowl, kitchen whisk

1. Crack the egg open and separate the white from the yolk.  The easy way to do this is by holding the half shells over the metal bowl and shifting the yolk back and forth between the shells, letting the white fall into the bowl.
2. With the whisk, beat the egg white until it turns to foam and stands in stiff peaks.  What do the stiff peaks resemble?

The most common cause of surface waves on the ocean is the wind.  The size of the waves depends on the wind speed, wind duration, and distance of water over which the wind blows.  As the waves crash on the shore, millions of tiny bubbles form because lots of air mixes with the water.  When you studied the foam of the egg white, you saw stiff peaks.  These peaks form because you beat thousands of tiny air bubbles into the egg white, much as the wind beats air into ocean water.  

• Making Waves:  1 plastic bottle(2 liter) per child, water, blue food coloring, vegetable oil, tape

1. Rinse bottles well and add water to fill the bottles half way.
2. Add several drops of food coloring per bottle.
3. Add 1/2 cup vegetable oil to each bottle.
4. Screw on the cap and tape it securely to the bottle. 
5. Make waves by gently rocking the bottle.

Snacks:

• Nemo fruit snacks
• Clear cups with blue jello and add gummy fish to cups.
• Goldfish

Education:

Letters/Words

• Review the words of the week

Numbers

•  Number Memory Game: 2 decks of cards

1. Take out all the face cards and numbers 6-10. Combine the rest of the two decks.  
2. Turn the cards over and so that you can't see the numbers.
3. Then have your child try to find the matching pair.

Music:

Rub-a-dub-dub

Three men in a tub;

And who do you think they be?

The butcher, the baker,

The candlestick maker;

All scrubbing their way out to sea.

Song found on boopadoo website.  There is 4 other versions on this site.  And websites on printable coloring pages and worksheets.

Also Kididdles website has a Rub-a-Dub Journey song.

Rhyme:

A sailor went to sea sea sea
To see what he could see see see
And all that he could see see see
Was the bottom of the deep blue sea sea sea.

Version #2:

Three sailors went to sea, sea, sea,
To see what they could sea, sea, sea,
But all that they could sea, sea, sea
Was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea

Three sailors went to China
To see what they could China
But all that they could China
Was the bottom of the deep blue China

Three sailors went to ooh-watch-ee-kah
To see what they could ooh-watch-ee-kah
But all that they could ooh-watch-ee-kah
Was the bottom of the deep blue ooh-watch-ee-kah

Three sailors went to Pepsi Co
To see what they could Pepsi Co
But all that they could Pepsi Co
Was the bottom of the deep blue Pepsi Co

Three sailors went to sea, sea, sea,
To see what they could China
But all that they could ooh-watch-ee-kah
Was the bottom of the deep blue Pepsi Co 

Was found on beachnet website 

Book:

• There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Shell by Lucille Colandro

Some ideas found in the following books:

• The Giant Encyclopedia of Circle time and Group Activities by Gryphon House
• Nature In A Nutshell For Kids by Jean Potter
• 127 Anytime Crafts Kids Can Make by Highlights 

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