LITTLE EXPLORERS
By Misty Eves
Make a Pinecone Fish DIRECTIONS
MATERIALS • Pinecone • Paint • Leaves • Acorns • Glue • String
1) Tie the string around your pinecone so that you can hang it to dry afterward.
2) Paint your pinecone. You can even make your own paint by grinding up flowers and berries and adding a drop of water.
3) Glue on the acorns for a bulging eye effect.
4) Glue the leaves at the sides and back of your pinecone for fins and a tail.
5) Hang your fish from a tree branch to dry.
6) After your fish is dry, you can keep it hanging from the branch for deco- ration, or you can take it to a stream and have a race against your friends’ pinecone fish.
A Fishy Crossword
ACROSS 3 Walking out into the water to fish. 6 This is kept in a box.
7 Food thrown into water to attract fish to the area is called ___ bait.
8 These fish have ‘whiskers.’ 9 Trout and grayling are ___ fish. 10 A tiny fish that has just hatched is called a ___. 11 Fish use these to breathe. 13 This wiggly creature is traditional bait.
9 DOWN
1 Tiny yellow bait that comes out of your cupboard (two words).
2 You put this on your hook. 4 Hard pieces of bony tissue that protect a fish. 5 Fin at the top of a fish’s back. 12 Artificial bait.
CROSSWORD ANSWERS 10 11 12 6 2 3 4 7
Fish Jokes 1) What fish is worth the most?
2) What do you call a fish without an eye?
3) Why can you always tell how much a fish weighs?
4) Why did the fish blush?
5) Where do ghosts like to swim?
6) Where did the fish keep his money?
7) Who do fish see for an operation?
ANSWERS: Jumble Fish
Can you unscramble these letters to find 10 fish names?
1) KEIP 2) TNRIBTAOORUW (two words) 3) RPCA 4) ODC 5) MAOLSN 6) SABS 7) HFTICSA 8) HRCEP 9) GHIDFOLS 10) ALYWLEE
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8 FAMILY CAMPING
ANSWER KEY: 1) Pike, 2) Rainbow Trout, 3) Carp, 4) Cod, 5) Salmon, 6) Bass, 7) Catfish, 8) Perch, 9) Goldfish, 10) Walleye
ACROSS: 3) wading, 6) tackle, 7) ground, 8) catfish, 9) game, 10) fry, 11) gills, 13) worm DOWN: 1) tinned corn, 2) bait, 4) scales, 5) dorsal, 12) lure
1) A goldfish! 2) Fsh! 3) It comes with its own scales! 4) It saw the Queen Mary II’s bottom! 5) Lake Eerie! 6) In a river bank! 7) A Sturgeon!
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