Beach In A Bottle - Jul 31st
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This isn't your typical scrapbook, this one includes water, sand and seashells.
Description:
The seas are teeming with magnificent (and often wild-looking!) creatures great and small, and children are fascinated by them. Check out books with photographs of sea life from your local library.
Step by Step:
Materials:
Clear glass or plastic jar (a mason jar or large mayonnaise jar works well)
Sand
Shell
Fishing lure, starfish, seahorse, etc (optional)
Water
Blue food coloring
Description:
The seas are teeming with magnificent (and often wild-looking!) creatures great and small, and children are fascinated by them. Check out books with photographs of sea life from your local library.
Talk to your child about the many different types of marine life. Ask questions: What colors are these creatures? What do they look like? How are they different from one another? Do they have fins? fur? scales? This type of dialogue helps enhance expressive language skills and creative thinking.
Talk about the way different sea creatures move and try imitating them yourself, or use tub toys to demonstrate. Fish swim fast, turtles and crabs move slowly, the octopus undulates, jellyfish float! Have your child pretend to be each animal and move accordingly.
Step by Step:
- Put about one inch of sand in the bottom of a clear jar (you can use a plastic water or soda bottle).
- Add some seashells.
- Embellish with colorful rocks, pieces of coral or driftwood, a starfish, or a seahorse.
- Add water and color the water blue with a drop of food coloring.
- Finish off with a fish-shaped fishing lure and glue the cap on, or cover tightly.
Materials:
Clear glass or plastic jar (a mason jar or large mayonnaise jar works well)
Sand
Shell
Fishing lure, starfish, seahorse, etc (optional)
Water
Blue food coloring
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