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The Pout-Pout Fish Themed Recycle Fish Mobile

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Pout-Pout Fish Recycled Fish Mobile
This week I am going to share a wonderful children’s book called The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen. The pout- pout fish has a mouth that looks down turned. He decides that it means that he needs to be dreary all the time. The other sea animals try to get him to smile. He just won’t. He says he can’t he doesn’t have a choice. By the end of the book he finds he does have a choice and a wonderful smile if he will only swim upside down. (Spoiler Alert: A kiss helps make him smile too.)

This wonderful book is filled with rhyme you will love reading it all of the time.

How did we explore the book The Pout-Pout Fish?



Recycled Bottle Fish Mobile
Pout-Pout Fish Recycled Fish Mobile


JDaniel has been asking for mobiles for his room for along time. I made him an American flag mobile earlier in the summer and decide to add a fish one to his room too.

Pout-Pout Fish Recycled Fish Mobile

We have a lot of sticks that fall from the trees in our backyard. JDaniel stores them in a beaver dam area behind some bushes. Whenever we need a stick, we just head into the dam and look for the right one.

Pout-Pout Fish Recycled Fish Mobile

Once we had found the right one, I spray painted it white and red to look like coral.

Pout-Pout Fish Recycled Fish Mobile
A simple wash of water and glue was applied to multi-colored tissue squares. The squares were then  placed all over water bottles that had the back third of them twisted to form a fish tail.
Pout-Pout Fish Recycled Fish Mobile


When we had applied enough tissue, we added giant wiggly eyes to the fish. Later when they had dried I added a piece of fishing line to each fish and hung the fishing line from the branch.

One night a few day later we put glow sticks in the fish to make them bioluminescent. JDaniel love having his Pout-Pout Fish glowing fish mobile in his room.


Starfish Math Game

Pout-Pout Fish Recycled Fish Mobile 


We are trying to work on some basic math and reading skills this summer. One of the skills we have been working on is counting to ten.

To practice JDaniel and I sat down with some starfish game boards, pom poms, and a die. We each got to take turns rolling the die and adding pom poms to our starfish. The first person to get to ten was done and had to help the other person fill up the circles on their starfish.

Here are some of my favorite Posts from last week’s Read.Explore. Learn. link up:

I love this Nemo fish created by Colorful Imaginations.

 
Make Way for Ducklings is one of my favorite books. I love everything School Time Snippets did to explore and extend the book. The math lesson below looks like a lot of fun.
 
 
 
 

If you like these Pout-Pout fish book extension activities, you will like these fish activities for kids:

Fish Flop Painting

Shark Games -Fish Hockey 

Zombie Goldfish Optical Illusion Activity

 Summer Craft - Fish Flop Painting

 

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  12. I LOVE the pout pout fish– such a cute book and I adore the craft you guys made. Super cool!

    Thanks for featuring our unit on Make Way for Ducklings! It was a fun one!

  13. I’d never heard of this book. On our library list now – thanks for the cute mobile idea!

  14. We made recycled bottle fish a week or so ago – so fun! Never thought of making them into a mobile… We haven’t made a mobile yet; sounds fun!
    Love the fish and pom-pom activity, too!

  17. I love your recycled fish mobile! How creative. My son loves to work with little squares of tissue paper…we’ll have to give this a try! 🙂

  18. The fish bottle is SO cute! That’s actually something I’d hang up and not just because my kids made it!!

  21. I came back to see if my comment went through last night, but I see it did not. I really like the fish mobile, and I especially know my kids would love adding the glo sticks. Sounds like a really cute book, and I’m always attracted to children’s books written in rhyme.

  23. I LOVE this idea and can’t wait to try it with my trash collecting son. Seriously one day he came home with 30 plastic bottles (he wants to keep), he got smart on me and now calls it recycling. LOL
    mari

  25. Your fish are super cute. I would have never guessed that they were made out of plastic bottles!

  26. So many great activities to go along with the book! I especially love the fish. Those are really great. Thanks for linking up to The Sunday Showcase.

  31. the “coral” stick that the fish are hanging from is brilliant! and so cool to have glowing fish.. i can see why he liked it so much. thanks for linking up to tip-toe thru tuesday!

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