Create a Classroom Pond
Use a large blue sheet as the pond. Have circle time in the pond. Use lily pad seat markers for each of the children to sit on.
Other ideas for the pond sheet
- Make stepping stones to help you walk across the pond without getting wet.
- Turn a large box into a boat and float it on the pond. Add some oars and a fishing rod.
- Toss some fish in the pond and catch them with a magnet on a fishing pole.
- Scoop up some plastic frogs in a net.
Activity provided by:
Story County Conservation Board
Nature Boxes for Early Childhood Educators
Debbi Williams
56461 180th St.
Ames, IA 50010
Story County Conservation
Age:
✓ 0-1
✓ 1-2
✓ 2-3
✓ 3-4
✓ 4-5
✓ 5-6
Category: Group Activities
Iowa Early Learning Standards:
1.2, 7.3, 8.2, 14.3
Related Kindernature Resources:
✓ 0-1
✓ 1-2
✓ 2-3
✓ 3-4
✓ 4-5
✓ 5-6
Category: Group Activities
Iowa Early Learning Standards:
1.2, 7.3, 8.2, 14.3
Related Kindernature Resources:
- Fishing Song
- Fish Songs
- Fishy Circle
- Fishy Wishy
- Frog Costume
- Froggie Grows Up
- Frog Pond Lifecycle Model
- Frogs, Turtles, Fish
- I Have a Little Turtle
- Underwater View Tube
- Cattail Pain Brush & Clay Paint
- Five Little Speckled Frogs
- Have You Ever Seen a Tadpole
- Over in the Pond
