Fish Stick Puppet

Suggested Grade Level: Preschool-K

Based on: Barney & Friends #719 - "Splish! Splash!"

Objectives:
Water plays a large role in the lives of young children. Children use water for bathing, swimming, drinking, watering flowers, feeding pets, cooking, washing clothes and washing dishes. They see water used (and use it themselves) many times each day.

The children will:

• identify uses for water
• know that rain is a source of water
• learn that all living things depend on water (animals, plants, people)
• know that it is healthy to drink water
• learn that water is used for recreation (boating, swimming, splashing, fishing)
• learn that ponds are homes to turtles, ducks, fish and frogs
• know that it is important to keep ponds clean
• identify a pond as a small body of water

Skills:

• Art
• Environmental awareness

Materials:

• Crayons and markers
• Paper
• Craft sticks
• Scissors

Directions:
This will be a great activity after discussing with children how all living creatures need water.

Give each child a piece of paper. They can draw and decorate a fish on the paper. After they cut out the fish, they can attach a craft stick to make the fish a puppet.

Extension:
Sing this cute tune with the fish puppets:

"1-2-3-4-5
Once I caught a fish alive.
6-7-8-9-10,
Then I let it go again.
Why did you let it go?
Because it bit my finger so.
Which little finger did it bite?
This little finger on the right."
(Words and music traditional)

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