Under The Sea Week: Thursday!

Under The Sea Week

Thursday!

Crafts:

• Fishy Bookmark: Pencil, tracing paper, thin card, scissors, black felt-tipped pen, Aquamarine, blue and bright pink foam paper, glue, silver sequins

1. Trace a bookmark template of any sea picture like a fish, octopus, sharks, etc. then transfer the design onto thin card.  Cut out the shape and draw around it on the aquamarine foam with the black felt-tipped pen.   For a fish, cut a fish from the blue foam.  Draw an eye on the fish with the black felt-tipped pen.
2. Cut scales and tail details from the bright pink foam and a fin from aquamarine foam.
3. Glue the scales and tail details, then the fin, onto the fish.  Glue the fish to the top of the bookmark.
4. As a finishing touch, glue silver sequins to the bookmark as bubbles.  Leave the bookmark to dry before using.

• Paper Mache Fish Bank: Newspaper, measuring cup, water, flour, mixing bowl, round balloon, paper plate, large and small paper cup, tape, glue, paint, sponge, sequins, gogglie eyes, 2 buttons, plastic-foam egg carton, masking tape

1. Tear lots of newspaper into strips.
2. Mix 1 cup of water with 1 cup of flour to make a paste.
3. Blow up the balloon to the size you want your bank to be and knot it.
4. Dip the newspaper strips in the paste, and lay them on the balloon.  Cover the balloon with three or four layers of strips.  Leave the knot of the balloon uncovered.  Let the project dry completely on the egg carton.
5. When the paper ball is dry, pop the ballon and remove it.  Cover the hole with masking tape to close it.
6. Tape the small paper cup over the covered hole to form the nose.  
7. Cut fins and a tail from a paper plate.  Tape them in place.  
8. Cut a 1-inch ring from the rim of a large paper cup.  Glue and tape the bottom of the fish to the ring to make a stand.  
9. Cut a coin slot in the top.  
10. Paint the fish. When it's dry, add a light speckled layer of paint in another color by dabbing it over the fish with a sponge.  
11. Use the sequins to give the fins and tail some sparkle.  
12. You can glue buttons on the fish above the nose and then glue gogglie eyes onto the buttons.

• Plastic Gallon Jug Whale:  Plastic gallon jug, markers, scissors

1. Cut the bottom of the jug off to form the whale's mouth.
2. The top part of the whale is the handle size.
3. Trace around the mouth part with marker.
4. Draw on eyes onto each side and a blow hole on top 
5. My daughter uses her whale in the tub.  Great for picking up the toys in the tub too.

• King-Sized Octopus: Grocery bags, paints, newspaper, stapler, glue, ruler, pipe cleaner, construction paper, scissors

1. For the body, paint a grocery bag and let it dry.  Stuff it with newspaper.  Fold the staple the opening closed.  Glue it in place so it is as flat as the bottom of the bag.  Add cut paper features for the face and glue them on.
2. For the legs or tentacles, cut down one side of a grocery bag and cut off the bottom section.  Cut the large rectangle into long 5-inch-wide strips.  Twist pipe cleaners together, end to end, as long as each strip.  Glue each paper strip around connected pipe cleaners.  Make eight legs.  Paint them. Staple them onto the octopus's body and bend them to shape.

Activities:

• Message In A Bottle Scavenger Hunt Game: Plastic Water Bottle, Paper, Pen, Pictures of Sea Animals (need 2 of each picture), Tape, Glue

1. Glue one set of animals to a piece of paper and write help find my friends.  Let dry.  When the glue is dried, roll up the paper and slip it into a clean, dry water bottle.
2. Then tape the other set of animals up around the house.  
3. Give the water bottle to your child and tell them that you found a message for them.
4. They then can have fun looking for the friends.

• Shark In The Sea: Masking Tape

1. Make a circle on the floor with masking tape. 
2. Players stand just outside the circle.  
3. The player inside the circle is the shark and tries to tag the others as they jump in and out of the circle.  The shark can tag a player only when part of that player is inside the circle.
4. Players must jump in and out of the circle all the time.  They chant, "Shark in the sea, can't catch me!"  A player who is tagged becomes a shark and joins the shark already inside the circle.
5. Continue until everyone is a shark!

• Ocean Picture: White paper, crayons, markers or paints

1. Let your child create their own ocean scene.
2. Have them include things like fish, sharks, sea weed, jelly fish, etc.
3. Ask them what they would love to be if they lived in the ocean.  What would they do all day?

Snacks:

• Fish Gummies
• Whale Crackers

Education: 

Letters/Words

• Word Of The Day: Index Card, Pen

1. ARE
2. Have your child make up sentences using today's word.  Like: We are going to play a game.  What are 2+3=5?  How many fingers are on my left hand?

Numbers

• Fork Or Spoon Game: 3 plastic spoons and forks, paper bag

1. Place the spoons and the forks in the bag.  Shake up the bag to mix its contents.
2. Now, reach into the bag and pull out 3 items.  Did your child grab 3 objects that are the same?  If they did, put them back into the bag and try again.  Otherwise, talk about the one object that doesn't match the others.
3. Reach in again, and pull out remaining 3 objects.  Which object is the odd one out?

Shapes

• My Shape Book: Colored construction paper, magazines or store ads, glue, safety scissors, marker, hole puncher, yarn

1. Have your child look for different shapes like circles, squares, triangles, diamonds, rectangles, etc., and then cut then out.
2. Glue the circles to a circle page (like a flower), squares to square page (like a window), triangles to triangle page (like a slice of pizza), etc.
3. Punch holes on the left side of each page and weave some yarn through the holes to bind your child's shapes book.
4. They can cut out shapes from construction paper too and glue them on the pages too.
5. You can make a cover for their shape book from foam paper.

Music:

A Sailor Went to Sea
A sailor went to sea, sea, sea
To see what he could see, see, see
But all that he could see, see, see
Was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea!

Rhymes:

THE BIG SHIP SAILS ON THE ALLY-ALLY-OH: Words and Origins

Books:

One Sun by Bruce McMillian

Whale and Dolphin by Vincent Serventy

The Several Tricks of Edgar Dolphin by Nathaniel Benchley

Whales by Laura Bour

The Whales' Song by Dyan Sheldon

Under The Sea Week: Thursday!