June 18: Go Fishing Day

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Kids can create their own fish bowls in honor of “Go Fishing Day.”

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Fish Bowl

Materials:

• baby food jar
• blue paint
• paper
• markers, crayons, or colored pencils
• something to poke holes
• fishing line
• tape

Directions:

1. Paint half of the jar blue so that if you were looking at the front of the jar all you would see is the blue from the other side.
2. Cut out a fish shape and decorate as desired.
3. Poke a hole in the top of the lid and through the back of the top of the fish.
4. Put a piece of fishing line through the hole and back up to the lid. Make sure it isn’t touching the bottom of the jar.
5. Tape the line to the top of the lid and your fish bowl is complete.

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Source(s): 100 Construction Activities for Kids (activity H4).

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Check out the full June calendar. It includes floating holidays, specialty weeks, and specialty months.

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September 3: Skyscraper Day

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September 3 is Skyscraper Day. Kids can do simple construction with just newspaper and masking tape. Challenge them to see how high a structure they can build!

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Newspaper Roll Sculptures

Materials:

• newspaper
• masking tape

Directions:

1. Lay newspaper on floor.
2. Beginning at corner, roll newspaper diagonally.
3. Tape end to form a roll.
4. Tape end of roll to table, floor, or posted paper.
5. Tape another roll to the first roll.
6. Keep adding rolls to create a sculpture.

Source(s): Toolbox Training’s construction card set (activity B1)

Check out the full September calendar to see the month at a glance as well as floating holidays, specialty weeks, and themes for the month.

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100 Construction Activities for Kids

These 100 activities are built around, well, building three-dimensional structures (for 2-D, see the art activity cards). The projects are generally open-ended, meaning that a general theme may be suggested for the activity, but that children can use materials as they wish to create their projects. These cards are divided into the following categories: paper, newspaper, cardboard, boxes & blocks, large box construction, wood, plastic, glass, metal, string/material, nature-based, grocery store materials, dough/clay/plaster, and toys & games. 136 pages. Catalog number: CNBK0913; Price: $9.95 Also available from Amazon.com.