Rainbow Fish Cookies

FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES:

VOCABULARY

• fish
• fin
• rainbow
• tail
• stack
• slice
• combine

MATH

• Fish Patterns
• Cut out fish from colored construction paper or use different flavored goldfish crackers or multi-colored Swedish fish
• "red fish, blue fish; red fish, _____"

• More Or Less
• Break the fish into groups
• Have the child label each group: "more" or "less"

• Fish Bowl Math
• Provide paper fish bowls (numbered 1-5) and paper fish or goldfish crackers
• Have your child count out the proper amount to match the numerals

• Goldfish Addition/Subtraction Story
• Provide the paper fishbowl:
• A little girl went to the pet store and bought 1 fish (child puts one fish in the bowl)
• That little fish was lonely so she bought 2 more (child adds two more)
• "How many fish did she have now?" (child adds up fish in the bowl)
• A friend came over and gave her 3 more fish (child adds three more)
• "How many did she have now?" (child adds up fish in the bowl)
• Two fish jumped out (child removes two fish from the bowl)
• "How many fish did she have now?" (child adds up fish in the bowl)
• She picked them off the floor and put them back in (child places all fish in the bowl)
• "How many fish are in the fish bowl?" (child adds up all fish in the bowl)

SCIENCE

• Mix food coloring or paint to create different colors

Color Mixing
• (To be prepared by an adult beforehand):
• 1 cup corn starch
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 4 cups water
• Mix on the stove
• Separate into 3 bowls and let cool
• Add red food coloring to one bowl
• Add yellow food coloring to another bowl
• Add blue food coloring to a third bowl
• Add one spoonful of mixture to plastic ziplock bags in various combinations
• Red + blue
• Red + yellow
• Blue + yellow
• Red + yellow + blue
• Seal bags
• Let children mix the colors within the bags

• Fish Parts
• Show a picture of a fish or use a real fish and label parts:
• Dorsal fin
• Gills
• Tail
• Pectoral Fin
• Lateral line
• Eyes
• Mouth, etc.

• Fish Or Not Fish
• Provide a variety of pictures or use small plastic sea animals
• Have your child sort according to:
• Type
• Color
• Size. etc.

LANGUAGE ARTS

• Give each child a paper fish or they can draw their own
• Let them name it and tell you:
• Where it lives
• What it does
• Where it eats, etc.

• Fishing For Phonics
• Cut out many paper fish
• Attach paper clips to them
• Using magazine pictures (or ones that you have drawn) place a picture (or numbers) on each fish that begins with a specific letter
• Make 5 paper buckets or use (paper bowls) and label each bucket/bowl with the specific letters/numbers that were used above
• Make a "fishing" pole with a stick, string and magnet
• Have your child "go fishing" by finding a fish and dropping it into the appropriate lettered bowl
• EXAMPLE: attach a magazine picture of a monkey onto one of the fish
• Have your child drop the fish into the bowl labeled "M"
• You can use any variation of this game: colors, recipe words, etc.

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Explain to your child that blue on a map represents water
• Have your child look at a map and identify all the places that fish can be found
• Label each place: "sea", "lake", "ocean"

ART

• Fish Printing

• Dip fish cookie cutters into paint
• Print fish onto paper

• Marbled Rainbow Fish
• Spread shaving cream into a flat tray
• Drop red, yellow and blue food coloring into different parts of shaving cream
• Dip a stick in and swirl around in the shaving cream making a marbled design
• Lay fish-shaped card stock lightly onto the shaving cream
• Lift up and squeegee off excess shaving cream

• Rainbow Fish Collage
• Provide children with fish-shaped paper
• Provide circle shaped scales
• Cut from colorful magazines, wrapping paper, foil or sequins

• Absorbent Rainbow Fish
• Cut a fish shape from strong paper towel or coffee filters
• Using eye droppers or medicine droppers and food coloring in water (cups of red, yellow and blue); have your child drip different colors onto the paper
• Watch them blend as they are absorbed into the paper