StArt - Mr Seahorse

Mr Seahorse is one of our most favorite books by Eric Carle. We took it from the library multiple times and enjoyed both the story and the illustrations. Since Anna’s Dad works from home and takes care of her most of the time, she was fascinated with the story of dedicated fathers in the animal world. When we read the book for the first time, a lot of information was new for me too. We took this book out again this week, since we were visiting Monterey Bay Aquarium which has a great exhibit right now called The Secret Lives of Seahorses.

Anna said that Seahorses was her favorite part of the aquarium – probably because there wasn’t as many buttons to push and levers to pull, which forced her to concentrate on actual animals. It is really a fascinating exhibit – I wish we could spend more time there that attention span of a three year old allowed us. We saw some of the seahorse relatives too which are even more exotic looking. When we came home, I pulled out seahorse stickers that I bought last year, and Anna made a collage. She used sticky back felt for seaweed, corrugated cardboard for coral and stuck seahorses around. She kept playing with her collage the next day moving seahorses around and eventually moved them all out to smaller “aquariums” (notepad pieces with some felt seaweed).

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