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ami*
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Posted: July 18 2005 at 8:40pm \| IP Logged

I'm looking for some picture book ideas (and even non-fiction) and even some activities about turtles that would be appropriate for my 3.5 yo.

I seem to be stuck...and need some inspiration! :)

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Posted: July 19 2005 at 10:35am \| IP Logged

Hi Ami, we love All About Turtles by Jim Arnosky!! He's our favorite children's book author/naturalist so far and this one has lots of good pictures and readable.

Maybe you could do a terrarium and get a small turtle for your little one to observe. Also, in my Little Saints Preschool program they have a craft to make a turle by painting a paper bowl and then cutting out geometric shapes (such as on a turtles shell) and pasting them on. The bowl is inverted before you paste and then on the bottom side (the bowls rim) you paste feet and a tail and a head. Pretty cute and I remember my kids naming their turtle and keeping him/her for a pet for quite some time

Just a few thoughts, let us know what you come up with!

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Posted: July 19 2005 at 6:31pm \| IP Logged

A fun counting book: Turtle Splash: Countdown at the Pond

You can make little bread loafs that look like turtles:
turtle bread

Do you live close to a beach? There was a really cute giant turtle sand sculpture in the June issue of Family Fun magazine. It could be toned down and made smaller. It sure was cute. Sorry there isn't a link on-line

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Posted: July 21 2005 at 11:43pm \| IP Logged

If you have the room in your yard, you can build a turtle pen. We always had one growing up, so it seemed the natural thing to do with our children

YOu need hardware cloth, about 1/2 inch size wiring, one side of which you bury about 6 to 8 inches deep, in a circle (as big or as small as you like), leaving the upper part as a fence, oh, about a foot to a foot and a half high. You can bury a kiddie pool in it if you want to have big water turtles (but your kids will have to keep it constantly replenished with water) or a regular-sized dishpan buried in the dirt will work, too, for land turtles. We actually dug a pond and concreted it with QuikCrete---we still had to keep it replenished with a hose, tho I have seen people with elaborate water-garden style turtle ponds, complete with pumps. Ours is pretty primitive. We planted the turtle pen with indigenous plants and put a dead log in it for burrowing as well as lots of leaves and pinestraw.

This is a really fun project for children. Lots of good times spent around the turtle pen (that is, until our dog decided to develop a taste for turtles...we have a temporary moratorium on turtles after seeing the dog eat one too many of our turtle pets!

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Kelly in turtle-ridden Florida

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