All the DAZE Productions: Fishing DAZE

Art:
Meat Tray Boats
Ask local grocery store for unused, clean meat trays. Make great boats. Plus collect milk caps and toss
them onto floating meat trays with letters/numbers/colors on them. Letters--write upper case on trays;
lowercase on caps. They try to make matches. (Younger ones just throw blank caps and try to say the
letter it lands on.) Numbers-Match quantity w/numeral or add up points. (meat trays have 1 or 2 on
them) Colors--match color of milk cap with color of tray (laminated construction paper circle tapes to it

I am a Fish
Materials: blue construction paper, photo of child's face, glue,
sand, brushes, tape, crayons/felt pens.
Directions: Prepare bottom of sea by brushing glue onto blue paper. Sprinkle sand on paper and wait
till glue dries. Pour off excess sand. In one of spaces, blue your child's photo. Using crayons or felt
pens, draw a fish's body and tail connected to photo. Have your child draw other sea creatures and
seaweeds. Use more blue paper if necessary.

Tissue Paper Fish
Gather a package of paper plates, tissue paper, scissors and glue. Pre-mark one paper plate for each
child with a pie-shaped wedge (for the tail). Instruct each child to cut along the lines to remove the
wedge. Next, staple the pointed side of teh wedge to the opposite end of the plate to form the tail. Give
each child several pieces of colored tissue paper and have him tear them into pieces about 1"X1". Have
each decorate the fish by gluing the pieces on. You could also use colored cellophane paper. This fish
looks like the Rainbow Fish

Paper Plate Jellyfish
Gather a package of paper plates, glue, streamers and scissors. Cut each plate in half. Give each child
1/2 of the plate. Cut a long strip of crepe paper and mark into sixteen 6" sections. Instruct the kids to cut
the crepe paper on the marks and then glue these pieces onto the bottom edge to look like tentacles.
Use crayons to make a face on the plate.

Flying Fish Socks
Get a large box. Paint the box blue to represent the ocean. Ask parents to send in any unmatched
socks they do not want. Have the children use permanent markers to decorate the socks to resemble
fish. Once the fish have been decorated, fill the socks partially with handfuls of dried beans, then
secure the ends with rubber bands. Let the children take turns tossing the flying fish into the box.

Dramatic Play:
Make into a beach scene. Put out beach towels, sunglasses, straw hats, empty suntan bottles, boat,
fishing poles, construction paper fish, picnic basket filled with play food.

A Day at the Lake
Materials: sack lunch, long stick, string, magnet, small metal objects–bottle caps, keys, blanket.
Directions: Regardless of weather, make believe you and your child are going on a fishing trip. Prepare
sack lunches and gather other materials. Find a spot inside or outside house and spread blanket.
Imagine you are by a lake in the woods. To make fishing pole, tie string to one end of stick and tie
magnet to other. Spread small metal objects around you. Relax as you fish with your child and eat lunch
together.

Games:
Shape Fishing
Cut sponges into different shapes. Tape a shape sponge to the front of a bucket. Put the buckets next
to the water table and the sponges in the water table or tub. Tell the children which shape to pick up.
They squeeze the water out and put it in the correct bucket.

Language:
Little Fish
One, two, three, four, five –
Once I caught a fish alive.
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten –
Then I let it go again.
Why did I let it go?
Because it bit my finger so.
Which finger did it bite?
The little finger on the right.

Math:
Shape Fishing
Cut sponges into different shapes. Tape a shape sponge to the front of a bucket. Put the buckets next
to the water table and the sponges in the water table or tub. Tell the children which shape to pick up.
They squeeze the water out and put it in the correct bucket.

Recipes
Fish Bait Snack
Materials: chocolate pudding, crushed chocolate cookies (dirt)
and gummie worms
Directions: Fill small bowl/cup with chock pudding cover with layer of cookie crumbs for dirt add a worm
or two for a great snack.

Science
Whales in Water
Take a clear empty 2 liter drink bottle and filled it about 1/3 full of water. Take a small blue balloon, and
as it is held in the bottle, blow up the balloon and tie a knot in the end. Add a couple of drops of blue
food coloring to the water. Turn the bottle on its side & there is a whale floating in the waves.