Fishy Tank

I wanted to do an activity related to a new board book, A Color Of His Own by Leo Lionni that I had bought for Sophie yesterday. I love the way it subtly introduces colours in a story about a chameleon who wishes to have a colour of his own permanently. In the end, he meets an older and wiser chameleon who suggests that they should stay and travel together. That way, they will change colours wherever they go together and always be alike. Thus, the chameleon realises that companionship is much better than a colour of his own.

So after breakfast and before her shower, I took out the a "fish" sponge and let Sophie paint with it, using only the colour "red". I managed to get her to repeat "red" after me, but I doubt the concept was learnt at all. Nevertheless, she was stamping happily on the drawing paper, with the fish shapes and chameleons already drawn by me, and that was good enough for me. The main idea was the red chameleon puppet but the fish seemed more exciting to make though...

I thought about how much she likes the fish at Naenae's place. So, why not make a fish tank then? And that took us the rest of the day to complete...

While she was taking her afternoon nap, I dug out a cardboard and drew a fish tank using markers. Then I found the brown a little disturbing, so I painted it white... After that, I cut out the fish Sophie did earlier and pasted plastic eyes on them. Next, I cut out some coral-like seaweed from a green corrugated paper and tore some tissue paper for the water and green plants. So all Sophie had to do was to put everything together... Not forgetting the glitter glue, after all, they are goldfish and water sparkles, doesn't it? Well... All I can say is... it was not a pretty sight! Sorry, my hands were all glued with tissue paper so I could not take any video clips.

End Product - Fish Tank

P/S: Sophie pointed to the red fish and uttered, "fish" when I put it up on her wall...