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  This week's Craft of
the Week comes from the very popular book, The Absolute Best Play Days, written and
created by Pam Waterson.
Pam's book is divided into themes like music, airplanes, dinosaurs, etc. Within each theme
there are activities, crafts, videos, even snacks!
The Absolute Best Play days is great for children age preschool age and up. The book is
geared towards creativity and fun learning. It can be successfully used by parents
who home educate their children and parents who want to enrich their children's learning
life.
  This week's Craft of the Week is making an
aquarium. This is featured in the fish section or theme of Pam's book which also
includes other terrific "fish" activities and related books that help kids
explore the world of fish.
Aquarium
Reprinted with permission of the author.
All rights reserved. ©1999 Pamela Waterman
What you need:
 Shoebox- Blue construction
paper
- White craft glue or glue stick
- Scissors
- Yarn scraps (green, brown, red, and pink)
- Plastic straw
- Markers
- Thread
- White paper
- Blue plastic wrap (optional)
What you do:
 Line a shoebox with blue construction paper.- Glue scraps of green, brown, red, or pink yarn to sides, on
bottom, and even hanging from to the top, as coral and seaweed.
- Draw and color bright fish on white paper, in sizes to fit
inside the shoebox. Color both sides if you want. Cut them out.
- Tape varying lengths of thread, one to each fish, and tape
them to the inside top of the box so that they hang down freely.
- If you can, add real shells and rocks to bottom. Or,
shape modeling dough into rocks or starfish. Tape blue plastic wrap stretched across
the front of the shoebox
See the interview
with Pam Waterman....
Faces of Home Education Profile
"Something
fishy?"
A passion for
oceanography
  Marsha Ransom, author of The
Complete Idiot's Guide to Homeschooling and is the mom of 4 homeschooled
kids (2 graduated and 2 to go!). Her new book (interview on
the Zone) is a step-by-step manual written for the new and inexperienced homeschooler.
She says, "My daughter Jacinta Ransom has an interest in oceans. She stenciled fish
and sea life on the walls of her bedroom. We had been helping her find resources for
studying the ocean for about a year and a half when she and I decided to redecorate her
room.
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