Visit an aquarium or pet store. Children of all ages enjoy watching fish and admiring their colors and different types.
Take the children to a pool or fountain and let them splash around. |
-Fish Eyes, by Lois Ehlert
-Five Little Sharks Swimming in the Sea, by Steve Metzger
-Hooray for Fish! by Lucy Cousins
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Fish Cards (18+ months)
Materials: Cardboard, scissors, hole punch, and yarn
Description: Cut out a fish shape from cardboard and punch holes around the edge. Take a piece of yarn, tie a knot at the end, and thread through the holes.
Thumb Print Fish (2+ years)
Materials: Inkpad, construction paper, and markers
Description: Make a drawing of the inside of an aquarium (fish, rocks, castle, coral, plants, etc.) Have children press their fingers onto a stamp pad & stamp fingers onto paper to create fish. Add features such as fins, tail, and eyes.
Octopus (3+ years)
Materials: Toilet paper roll, scissors, and markers
Description: You should start by cutting eight lines two-thirds of the way up. Then curl the eight legs up so they are spread out and draw on the eyes and the tentacles.
Go Fishing (3+ years)
Materials: Paper towel roll, yarn, construction paper, scissors, and hole punch.
Description: Make a fishing pole out of a paper towel roll or wrapping paper roll. Then cut out and color some fish. Attach yarn or string to the fish, and then attach it to your pole.
Paper Plate Octopus (3+ years)
Materials: Paper plate, paint, paintbrush, and streamers.
Description: Have the children paint the paper plate blue or gray. Then draw in eyes and add streamers for legs. When they are finished have them hang it in front of the window to watch the octopus swim. |
Puzzles (2+ years)
Materials: Any Puzzles
Description: Try putting together a couple of large floor puzzles or board puzzles with the children. |
Fish Snack
Ingredients: Pretzel sticks, Goldfish™ crackers, peanut butter, blue napkins, and Dixie™ cups. Directions: Tie the napkin around the cup. (The napkin is the ocean.) Put a spoonful of peanut butter in the cup and pour in the fish. Stick the pretzels along the sides to be used for fishing rods. Let the children catch the fish and eat.
Fish in the Ocean Snack
Ingredients: Blue JELL-O® and gummy fish.
Directions: Make blue JELL-O® and add gummy fish to it. Children love to see the fish wiggle or swim in the JELL-O®.
Aquariums
Ingredients: Blue icing, graham crackers, and gummy fish.
Directions: Spread blue icing on graham crackers and top with the gummy fish. |
Puzzles (2+ years)
Materials: Any Puzzles
Description: Try putting together a couple of large floor puzzles or board puzzles with the children.
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