Creation Day 5 - Fish and Birds Theme for Preschool

Snack Recipe Ideas to Cook Up for Your Theme!

Cooking with children helps develop their math skills and helps them to learn how to follow directions. It also allows for some great conversation! Ask many questions while cooking with your children to encourage conversation! Be sure to ask specific themed questions while making these fun snacks!

Cracker Fish!

Materials needed: Round or oval crackers (body); cheese, pre-sliced into small triangles (fins); shredded carrot (lips!); blueberry or raisin for eyes!

Healthy Bird Nest

Materials needed:  pretzel sticks, block of different colors of cheese, raisins, cheese grater

Let children help grate some cheese.

Place each ingredient in a separate bowl with a spoon in each.

Children take a scoop of each item and place into their own bowl.

Children make these items into a nest!

Creation Day 5 - Fish and Birds Theme Ideas to Transform Your Dramatic Play Area

Refrigerator Box Creation...continued!

Today, add markers in a bowl and some stuffed birds and water animals/fish...no land animals yet, they haven't been created!

Let the children draw fish on the sea paper that was added this week and birds to the top of the box...flying in the sky or living in the trees they drew the other day!

Creation Day 5 - Fish and Birds Theme Ideas for your Easel--

More Than Just Painting (Although that is always THE favorite in our classroom!)

Fish in a Bowl

Encourage your children to pretend the paper is a fish bowl or tank...what fish will they paint in their bowl or tank?

Lovely Birds!

Provide feathers for the children to paint with today!  What would a bird look like if they created one?

Creation Day 5 - Fish and Birds Theme Large Group Games 

that help build their muscles while they have fun together

Flying Fish and Birds!

Use rubber ducks or plastic fish for a tossing game!  Line up empty water bottles like bowling pins and toss the ducks or fish to knock the bottles over!

OR, have colored bins and the children toss the corresponding colored duck or fish into the same colored bin!

Duck, Duck, Goose!

Teach the children how to play this game.

Be sure that each child has a turn to be the "ducker"!

Creation Day 5 - Fish and Birds Theme Ideas for Your Library Area

Book Suggestions for the Library

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Creation Day 5 - Fish and Birds Theme Activities to help your Preschoolers develop those small muscles in their hands!

Catch the Worm!

Materials needed:  colorful chenille pipe cleaners cut into 1 to 1 1/2 inch pieces; tongs or pinch clothes pins; bowls

The children use the tongs or clothes pins to pick up the pipe cleaner "worms" and sort them into bowls.

Chart the Fish!

Make a chart on paper (make several so many children can do this at the same time).

Make 5 columns and make one smaller row across the bottom.

On the bottom row of the first column, print the number 1 and make 1 dot under the one.

On the bottom row of the second column, print the number 2 and make 2 dots under the two.

Continue with all 5 columns.

Above the bottom row, draw the number of fish that correspond with the number of that column.

Provide the children with a small cup or bowl of goldfish crackers.

They place one fish on each fish drawing and count them as they go!

Creation Day 5 - Fish and Birds Theme Music and Movement Activities and Ideas to get your Preschoolers Movin' and Groovin'!

God Created

There is a great song my daughter's Sunday school teacher sang during the Creation Theme.

It is sung to the tune of Frere Jacques

We will add additional verses each day!

Today, sing:

God created!  God created!

Night and day, night and day.

That was on the first day.

That was on the first day.

And it was good!  It was good!

God created!  God created!

Sky and clouds, sky and clouds.

That was on the second day.

That was on the second day.

And it was good!  It was good.

God created!  God created!

Land and plants.  Land and plants.

That was on the third day.

That was on the third day.

And it was good!  And it was good!

God created!  God created!

Sun, moon and stars!  Sun, moon and stars!

That was on the fourth day.

That was on the fourth day.

And it was good!  It was good!

God created!  God created!

Fish and birds!  Fish and birds!

That was on the fifth day.

That was on the fifth day.

And it was good!  It was good!

Creation Day 5 - Fish and Birds Theme Activities for the Senses!

Bird Sensory Bin  

ALLERGY WARNING AND INFORMATION..PLEASE READ!

I know it is very common to put birdseed in the sensory table.  It feels cool and goes with the theme.

HOWEVER, you need to be aware that many birdseed manufacturers use peanut pieces in the bird feed.  It is for this reason that we do not have birdseed in the classroom for activities (we are a peanut free classroom).

Add black beans, black rice or sunflower seeds, just read the ingredients for allergy warnings.

Add toy birds, scoops, cups, water wheels, sifters, etc.!

Gone Fishing

Add water and plastic fish to your water table.  Color the water.  OR, add water and fish to a small wading pool.

Add small nets to fish with!

VARIATION:  Instead of water, add colored jewels and colored fish tank gravel!

Creation Day 5 - Fish and Birds Theme Science Activities--for your Preschool Scientists in Training!

Observe a Bird Nest

My Mom LOVED to watch birds!  We had bird houses all over our back yard!  She would remove abandoned nests in the fall and bring them to the preschool for my preschool children to check out!

Materials needed:  A bird nest that has been abandoned in a tree, magnifying glasses, paper and marker

The children take time to explore the nest.  They draw or print what they see (or you print it for them!).

Really look at the nest!  It is pretty amazing to see what they use in their nests!  We have found lint, fabric from our patio chairs (oh no!), plastic and more!

Bird Nest in a Bottle

This is a follow up to the last activity.  I found this idea on Pinterest and love it!  

Materials needed:  plastic water bottles....that's it!

Take a walk with the kids.  Have them find items outside they might use to make a bird nest!

Leaves, twigs, etc.

Jellyfish in a Bottle

Really!  This is AMAZING!  I have never made one, but it looks great!

The instructions are on the link below!

Materials needed:  Clear water bottle, transparent plastic grocery bag, thread, food coloring, scissors, water

Flatten grocery bag.  Cut off handles and bottom.  Cut seams (you now have 2 sheets of bag...use one for each bottle you make!).

From the center of one sheet, make a fold to shape into a small head for a jellyfish (just pinch a small area together) and tie that off with thread.***Leave a little opening in the head bubble....you will need some water to get in there! This is the head.

Now, cut the sheet from the edges up to the near the head for tentacles. Cut roughly, tentacles aren't smooth edged!  

You should have 7 or 8 wide tentacles.  Now cut those 7 or 8 up the middle!

Now fill the head with water. 

Fill your water bottle.  Push your jellyfish, head first, into the water bottle.

Add blue food coloring.

Cover.

Writing Activity Ideas for Your Creation Day 5 - Fish and Birds Theme!

Sand Trays

Place colored sand in a shallow tray.  The children use their fingers to make letters or just make designs in the sand.  

This is a great way for the children to develop their muscles to make the lines and curves that will be required to make letters!

Stick Letters

Provide lots of craft sticks.  

Encourage the children to make letters out of the sticks!