Ocean Theme Ideas. We created this fun mural the other day after reading the book "Hooray for Fish" by Lucy Cousins. Ok, actually we've read the book a billion times the last several weeks. Love this book! It's a story about going along with Little Fish on a mesmerizing underwater tour of friends spotty and stripy, happy and gripy, hairy and scary, even curly whirly and twisty twirly. We like to take a pause after reading each page and decide which fish was our favorite on the page. It is fun because the author made imaginary fish reminiscent of things like a butterfly, a leaf, a heart, a star, and a peacock (all pictured below).
To make our mural we started by cutting a piece of poster board in half. I've had bubble wrap stored away for months now for this project. Then pressed it onto our paper and carefully lifted it off. After we done filling the entire paper, we had created our water background. Meet some of our fish: Little Fish (the main character) Fat fish Peacock Fish Mean Fish Fly fish 3 Fish Star Fish. Summer time crafts. I have been trying to sneak some learning into our Summer fun this year. I grabbed this book at the library and it created the perfect opportunity for us to go explore a Pond. While the book is geared towards preschool age children, I got my boys (6 and 8) involved by helping to read the book to my toddler. Pond Walk by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace I also made this little Pond Scavenger Hunt worksheet for our trip to the Pond. You can either circle or color all of the things you were able to find on your pond walk. You can download a copy HERE or by clicking on the picture below.
(This worksheet is for educational purposes only. We first visited a small man made pond at a local Village shopping center (Gardner Village). My kids got up close and personal and noticed some tadpoles and small fish in the water. It was the perfect small outing for a Sunday afternoon and it got my kids pumped up to explore something bigger. Our next adventure was at Willow Pond in Murray, Utah.
Catherine Fortier. BRICOLAGE enfant et garderie. Catherine Fortier. Catherine Fortier.