Storytime: Ocean Animals

Family Storytime for Ages 3-8 with craft.

Books:

 
 Swimmy

by Leo Lionni


 
Rub-A-Dub Sub

by Linda Ashman and pictures by Jeff Mack



Hooray for Fish!

by Lucy Cousins

Additional Books (added 6.1.10) 

Fish, Swish! Splash, Dash!: Counting Round and Round by Suse MacDonald 

I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean by Kevin Sherry 

Into the A, B, Sea by Deborah Lee Rose and pictures by Steve Jenkins 

One Lonely Sea Horse by Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers 

Ten Little Fish by Audrey Wood and pictures by Bruce Wood 

The Three Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark by Ken Geist and pictures by Julia Gorton 

Trout, Trout, Trout: A Fish Chant by April Pulley Sayre and pictures by Trip Park  

Songs:


I Caught a Fish

1, 2, 3, 4, 5
I caught a fish alive.
6,7,8,9,10
I let him go again.
Why did you let him go?
Because he bit my finger so. OUCH!
 


Baby Shark Song 

  (Make hand like a puppet, with thumb underneath and fingers above.)
Baby shark doo, doo, doo, doo.
Baby shark doo, doo, doo, doo.
Baby shark doo, doo, doo, doo.
Baby shark.

(Put palms together and open and shut fingers, while bottom of palms remain touching)
Mama shark doo, doo, doo, doo.
Mama shark doo, doo, doo, doo.
Mama shark doo, doo, doo, doo.
Mama shark.

(Put elbows, forearms, and palms together. Hinge on elbows and clap hands together.)
Papa shark doo, doo, doo, doo.
Papa shark doo, doo, doo, doo.
Papa shark doo, doo, doo, doo.
Papa shark.
 
(Make "mama shark", but roll fingers in so knuckles clap.) 
Grandpa gums, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Grandpa gums, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Grandpa gums, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Grandpa gums.

(Make swimming motions)
Went for a swim, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Went for a swim, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Went for a swim, doo, doo, doo, doo.
For a swim.

(Make shark fins above your head)
Saw a shark, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Saw a shark, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Saw a shark, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Saw a shark.

(Quick swimming motions)
Swim real fast, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Swim real fast, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Swim real fast, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Swim real fast.

(Wiggle around)
Shark attack, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Shark attack, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Shark attack, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Shark attack.


Here's a video of the song, but I tend to do it much slower.

Here Is the Sea

Here is the sea the wavy sea.
(Make wave motions with arm)
Here is my boat.
(Cup hands)
And here is me.
(Point to self)
All of the fishes.
(wiggle index and middle finger of one or both hands)
Down below.
Wiggle their tails.
And awaaaay they go!
(Hide wiggling fingers behind back)  



Crafts:


Octopus Craft 
 modification of Crazy Eight Octopus (pg 39)

 
Jumbo Book of Easy Crafts (2001) by Judy Ann Sadler

Instead of cutting lines in a toilet paper tube. I created a template on construction paper, and used the copier. The kids cut straight lines in the paper and glued it all into a tube. Then they added wiggly eyes and a mouth. More coloring and leg curling were optional.



Additional Craft (added 6.1.10)

Rainbow Fish First, I cut out fish from our Ellison machine. Then I cut little squares of multi-colored tissue paper. The children glued their tissue paper fish "scales" to their fish. I also offered crayons for them to decorate with. Very cute.