Thursday, July 14, 2011

SHELLS! COLLECTING, STUDYING, CLASSIFYING THEM AND CRAFTS

I recently posted about our trip to Sanibel Island, they have the prettiest sea shells I have ever seen. We grabbed quite a few beautiful ones along the sea shore. Here is our sea shell study!


The shells REALLY stunk, so I gave the boys toothbrushes and baking soda and had them clean them




 Here are the shells we collected, even part of a crab shell!

My oldest traced some of the shells, drew some free hand and wrote all the names of them in our sea life binder, then we took some of the shells and make impressions of them in Play-Doh, making our own shells!
We are now storing our shells in our Gulf of Mexico sea life jar:
We took a big pickle jar, cleaned it out and for the lid my son stamped them with a ink stamper, then colored the inside of the shells, I used clear packing tape to laminate the circle shell design he made, cut it out and glued it to the lid. 

I painted Gulf of Mexico sea life on the jar 

So now every month when we go back we can add to our jar and enjoy looking at it when we are not at the beach and recalling our special memories!



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7 comments:

  1. TiciaJuly 14, 2011 at 11:15 PM

    I need to get out the shells I brought back from the ocean again to let the kids play with them.

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  2. SarahJuly 15, 2011 at 8:33 AM

    Looks like some fun!

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  3. AnonymousJuly 15, 2011 at 9:14 AM

    What fun! I love all that you did with shells! Did you read a book about shells too?

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  4. Mama, Hear Me RoarJuly 15, 2011 at 3:24 PM

    What wonderful ideas! I'm relatively new to homeschooling and love creative ways of teaching children. So glad I found your blog.

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  5. PaigeJuly 16, 2011 at 2:46 AM

    I miss Sanibel, we used to love collecting shells from there! What a great way to display them.

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  6. An Almost Unschooling MomJuly 17, 2011 at 6:42 PM

    I like the jar! Did the baking soda help the smell? We might give it a try on ours.

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  7. AimeeJuly 22, 2011 at 12:23 PM

    Very nice collection of projects- and such a fun summer craft! Thank you for sharing this idea on The Sunday Showcase!

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