Kid Activity: Make a Water Scope
General — By Shannon Schmid on May 17, 2011 at 7:08 pm
Are your kids just itching to play in the water as summer begins? My toddler is! And since we have recently been reading a book about ocean animals we made an easy project to allow us to talk more about whats under the water! We made a Water Scope! And the good news is – it’s so easy!
~TO MAKE A WATER SCOPE~
YOU NEED:
- A clean 1/2 Gallon Milk Container
- Two Rubber Bands
- Two very long lengths of Durable plastic Cling Wrap
- Electrical tape( Optional)
STEP ONE: Cut the top and bottom off of your clean Milk Container
STEP 2: Lay out one length of cling wrap under the bottom of your milk container, then pull it up until the long sides go just inside the top of your milk container. Do the same thing with your second length of cling, but this time lay it the opposite direction. That way the long part will cover the sides that had less cling cover before.
STEP3: Wrap two rubber bands around the bottom of the cling holding the bottom nice and taught. Wrap electrical tape around it to secure it even more. And continue up the scope if you want to cover the milk designs.
Lower the scope into the water plastic wrap side down. In a creek this would allow you to see minnows or tad poles swimming around! Because we were using a water table. I would let my toddler look through and see what belonged in the ocean, and what didn’t.
So for instance- a clam. Yes! You find that in an Ocean! A little rubber bunny toy? NO! Bunnies don’t live in the water! Etc…. The scope would also work great in the bath or a small wading pool.
We love the Water Scope! Hope you do too!
The project was inspired by Donna Erickson’s book “Fabulous Funstuff for Families” and my daughters book “Three Little Mermaids” by Mara Van Fleet.
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20 Comments
This is a cute idea! We have a water table too.
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What a great idea! I can’t wait to try this (unfortunatly it is still snowing in Utah today!) I can just imagine my little girl staring wonderingly into the Water Scope for hours. Fantastic blog, I’m excited to follow you!
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Great idea! just shared on fb and twitter.
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This is such a great idea! I love how you are always finding such creative things to do! Love it!
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Positively brilliant! The girls and I will definitely be making a few for our trips to the river this summer!
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great idea and very little cost as well as time. thanks for sharing rosie
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ooooo this is a great idea! and inexpensive too! I’m totally going to do this at the lake so I can see whats down there lol:)
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I love this idea! I think it is really cool.
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I bet she loved being able to look underwater just like a mermaid!
Thank you for linking to Read.Explore.Learn.
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So fun! We made some similar ones a church a few weeks ago with plastic cups:)
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My kiddos would LOVE this. Following you from Tip Junkie‘s link party. Would love to have you link this up to my {wow me} wednesday link party going on right now over on my blog. Hope to see you there.
Ginger
gingersnapcrafts.blogspot.com
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This is such a great idea! I featured this on my friday favorites!
http://www.lilbitofus.com/2011/07/friday-favorites.html
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How creative. Love it!
Great way to re-purpose a milk carton.
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oh, how fun! love this idea – very simple & doable yet fun for the kiddos!
would love to have you link up to the sunday showcase – http://momto2poshlildivas.blogspot.com/2011/07/sunday-showcase-child-centered-linky_30.html
Bernadette
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This is one of my favorite posts of yours! love it! Can’t wait for the summer to ocme back so we can try it out!
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That’s a really fun idea.
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JDaniel would really love to do this. I will be featuring this post on my Read.Explore.Learn. Facebook page.
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what a cool idea.
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