I am delighted to kick off the lil bookworms book club with the sweet book, The Rainbow Fish, by Marcus Pfister. This book tells a story about a beautiful fish who learns how to share. It's a colorful book with great imagery and a nice message for young ones. We adore this book and I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!
For our story time, we read The Rainbow Fish a few times (Miss N likes to do things on repeat these days!) and created a picture of one of the final scenes in the book. I wanted to be able to discuss sharing with Miss N so we created the scene where the rainbow fish shares his scales. We had a nice discussion about sharing and then had a lot of fun decorating the fish with their new scales.
What I love about this activity is that you can tailor it to your child's skill level. For young kids you can cut out the images and help your child paste the images to create the scene. For older kids you can let them practice cutting and pasting as well. It teaches them about some basic skills and lets them express their own creativity too!
Our project is now proudly hanging on our fridge - it's super cute! I hope yours turns out great too!
THE RAINBOW FISH ACTIVITY
Materials
FREE PRINTABLE Activity Sheet - The Rainbow Fish
White Paper (11x14)
Colored Paper [variety of bright colors]
Glitter Paper [or aluminum foil]
Scissors
Glue
Googly Eyes
Markers
Instructions
1. Use the Activity Template to cut out the images needed to create the picture. Use a variety of colors for the fish to make your scene more visibly interesting.
2. Glue the fish onto a piece of white paper (our piece of paper is 11 x 14)
3. Cut out the scales. I used a one inch hole punch to cut out the scales from the silver glitter paper. Then I cut the circles in half to create the scales. If you don't have a hole punch, you can use the circle shape on the template to create the circles for the scales out of either shiny/sparkly paper or aluminum foil.
4. Glue the scales to the fish. Add one scale to each fish and add a few to the Rainbow Fish.
5. Glue the googly eyes to the fish (if you don't have googly eyes you can always use markers to draw the eyes). Glue the coral and bubbles to your paper and your scene from the Rainbow Fish is fridge ready ;-). Isn't it cute?!?
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