Under The Sea Week: Tuesday!

Under The Sea Week

Tuesday!

Crafts:

• Egg Carton Octopus: Egg carton, blue paint, blue yarn, gogglie eyes, glue, red construction paper

1. Cut out two cardboard egg-carton cups and glue them together.
2. Paint the cups.  
3. Attach eight yarn tentacles with glue.
4. Glue gogglie eyes onto the octopus.  
5. Cut a mouth from the red paper and glue it in place.

• Magnet School: Cardboard Egg carton,  markers or paints, crepe paper of tissue paper, gogglie eyes, magnet strips

1. Cut out one egg-carton cup for each fish you want to make.  Trim each cup to look like a fish.  Almost looks like a stool(four legs)
2. Color the cups with markers or paint.  Cut out fins from crepe paper or tissue paper and glue to the inside top and bottom of each cup.
3. Glue a gogglie eye to one side of each fish.  Glue a piece of magnet strip to the opposite side. Use a marker to draw on a mouth.

• Craft Stick Fish: Paint, craft sticks, gogglie eyes, yarn

1. Paint craft sticks in the same or different colors.  Let dry.  Glue two sticks together at one end, fanning the opposite ends out.
2. Glue three sticks underneath the top stick and parallel with the bottom stick. Add three dots of glue, 1 inch apart, to the top of those sticks.  Place three sticks into the glue, forming a crisscross pattern.
3. Place one more stick across the entire pattern.
4. Glue on a gogglie eye.  Add yarn for a hanger.

Activity:

• 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

1. Fill each paper cup halfway with sand.
2. Add enough water to each cup to completely cover the sand.
3. Add a few drops of food coloring to each cup to get the desired colors.
4. Stir each cup with a plastic spoon and set aside for a half hour while the sand absorbs the color.
5. Pour the excess water off the sand.  Scoop the sand out onto paper towels and allow the sand to dry completely.  

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 the top and screw lid on jar or place cork in the top of the bottle.

• Jump The Sea: Masking Tape, music 

1. Using tape, outline the borders of the sea on the carpet or floor.  
2. Line up in single file behind a player chosen to be the leader.  One person is in charge of a cd player.
3. While the music is playing, players must follow the leader in jumping across the sea.  Jump to the rhythm of the music.  When the music stops, whoever is stuck over or in the sea must drop out of line and play the cd player.  The person who was playing the music beforehand then joins the game.

• Bedside Fishing: Fishing pole made on Monday, basket, things with handles or holes

1. Place some "fish" in a basket on the floor by a bed.  Your "fish" should be things that have handles or holes, such as bracelets, cups, key rings, jar rings, etc. 
2. See how many "fish" you can hook with your fishing pole.

• Sand Timer: Two large jars, construction paper, fine sand, watch or clock with a sweep second hand

1. Make a funnel from construction paper.  Place the funnel in the top of one of the jars.
2. Pour sand into the funnel-shaped paper for a specified time (one minute, two minutes, three minutes, etc.)  Use a watch or clock to time the pouring of the sand.
3. When the specified time has been reached, stop pouring the sand.  The sand that was poured represents the amount of time you wish to measure when using the sand timer.  Save it in the jar.
4. To use the sand timer, simply place the funnel in the second jar and pour the sand into the funnel.  When all the sand has fallen into the second jar, the specified time has been reached.
5. Use the sand timer for timing various activities throughout the day.

Snacks:

• Fish Sticks and French Fries
• Knockout Punch: For a punch with a bite, make a batch of blue fruit punch and pour it into clear cups filled with Swedish Fish candy.  Don't forget the straws.  Kids love to stir the fish into a whirlpool swim.

Education:

Letters/Words

• Word of the day: Index card, pen

1. On
2. Go around the house and find things that are on something like: Tv on the stand, dad on the chair, sugar bowl on the counter, etc.

Numbers

• Guess How Many? Macaroni, glue, pom poms, card stock, beans, cotton balls, ribbon, pieces of felt, gogglie eyes

1. Glue 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 different objects piece of card stock. For example: 1 macaroni, 2 beans, 3 pom poms, 4 ribbons, 5 eyes.  Let dry.
2. Try to determine the number of objects on each card by feeling the card carefully, with your eyes closed.  Say the number out loud when you figure out how may there are of each one.

Shapes

• Sand Shapes:  Sand, glue, construction paper,  pen or pencil

1. Draw 6 shapes on the construction paper.
2. Now you outline each shape with glue
3. Sprinkle on the sand.
4. When the glue dries, tilt your paper so the extra sand falls off onto your work space.
5. You can do this with numbers or alphabet too.

Music:

I'm A Little Fishy 

(Tune of I'm A Little Teapot)

I'm a little fishy
watch me swim
Here is my tail
Here is my fin
When I want to have fun with my friends
I wiggle my tail and dive right in

Rhymes:

My darling little goldfish (wiggle a finger)
Hasn't any toes (point to your toes)
He swims around without a sound (pretend to swim)
And bumps his angry nose (point to nose)
He can't get out to play with me (Point to your self)
Nor I get in to him (Point to other children)
Although I say Come out and play(motion finger for him to come)
He says, come in and swim(pretend to swim)

I Found the  Music and Rhyme on everything preschool.  They have other cute ones on their site too.

Books: 

• Sammy the Seal by Syd Hoff
• Greyling by Jane Yolen
• Swimmy by Leo Lionni
• Baby Beluga by Raffi
• Going on a Whale Watch by Bruce McMillian

Movie:

• Watch Ponyo Release date is 03/02/10.  Make sure to go under www.coupongeek.net for a $10 off printable coupon.

Some ideas were found in the following books:

• Crafty U by Rosie 0' Donnell's (which can be purchased at Barnes and Noble for $6)
• Arts, Crafts and More by Barbara Goins
• Look What You Can Make With Dozens of Household Items by Boyds Mills Press

Under The Sea Week: Tuesday!