But we particularly love Hooray for Fish!Ģ) Get some paints. Footprint Fish for Kids – Hurray for Fish!ġ) Read the book – any fish book for kids will do of course. Do, do this with your baby, it will provide a colourful collage for your nursery and a nice memento of their wee little feet! I am actually glad I only did it with one of them – it was rather messy – and we would have needed two adults to contain the mess.

Unfortunately, Pip Squeak wasn’t well, so I didn’t want to subject her to paint and the outdoors. Easy for young children to follow and learn basic patterns and counting.Īs the little fish, has lots of fishy friends that come in all shapes and sizes, I decided this book would be perfect for all sorts of shapes and sizes of Footprint Fish… I love the bold bright colourful illustrations combined with the rhymes.

At the very end however, he comes back to the Fish He Loves Best (Mummy Fish!). Stripey Fish and Spotty Fish… all sorts of fish. It is a rhyming book about a little fish off to see all his friends. I nice story about a little fish and all his friends. I think we first read it with him when he was 9 months old. Red Ted has loved this book for a LONG time. Hooray for Fish US/ UK (affiliate links added for convenience)Įventually I remembered Hooray for Fish, by Lucy Cousins. Handprints too, but they are harder, as babies tend to clench their fist! So, what can one do with feet? The obvious thing to do with babies is anything to do with footprints. I was trying to come up with a craft project that you could do with babies (I have a couple of loyal readers itching to get stuck in, but their little ones are indeed still too little). This helps us focus our creative activities a little and when stuck for something to do, grab a book for inspiration!! We love these projects, as we love books and we love art. In case you haven’t visited before this is about a craft project inspired by books – Story + Art = Great stART (inspired by Playing By the Book and A Mommy’s Adventure ). You can’t beat footprint crafts in summer! We turned all our hand and feet into a lovely wall frieze for his bedroom. Red Ted really got stuck in and we made a wonderful set of Footprint Fish for Kids. we got out one of favourite books – Hooray for Fish, our paints and brushes and had a lovely “story and art” in the garden session. They enjoyed handprint art, as well as footprint art. When my kids were little they LOVED to get messy with paints. A wonderful and fun Summer Craft for Preschoolers.

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