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Generosity through Rainbow Fish

May 18, 2012 · by jodidurr · 17 Comments

Generosity
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. – 2 Corinthians 9:7 (littler kids can memorize the underlined portion)
 
Are you familiar with the “Rainbow Fish” by Marcus Pfister? It’s a wonderful little story about a beautiful fish (at least in appearance) who has sparkly rainbow scales. Another fish asks if he can have one of the scales and he says no way. He loses all of his friends because of his selfishness. The wise octopus encourages him to share, and when he rainbow fish listens and begins giving away his rainbow scales, he gains friends again. If you don’t have the book, no worries. You can find it on YouTube. 
After reading the story, we did our own water color rainbow fish with glitter scales. I drew out this fish outline and made it a printable for you so that you can do this simple activity with your kids. If you print this fish, you can paint it with water colors.  Then, I had Abby add glue to some scales, and we dumped on the glitter.
Perhaps you are wondering why Abby is the only one doing this activity. We were having issues with cleaning up our first activity.  The girls were suppose to clean up the beans that had been dumped on the floor. Abby cleaned up her half. Kenzie proceeded o dump those back out. I set the timer for 15 minutes, and I told her we were going to start the next activity in that time. If she was finished, she could do it with us.  If it wasn’t clean, sorry. Well, I had to follow through on the threat. She still hasn’t cleaned up this mess, and she is still in the same corner of the house a few hours later. Spirited kid.

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Filed Under: Character Development, Crafts · Tagged: Bible, Christianity, faith, Generosity, kids, Preschool, rainbow fish, rainbow fish craft, rainbow fish printable, teaching

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  1. Lauren says

    May 18, 2012 at 12:14 pm

    Our preschool theme was fish a couple weeks ago… wish I had known about this then.

    I would love it if you’d stop by and share at my first link party, Off the Hook:
    http://daisycottagedesigns.blogspot.com/2012/05/introducing-off-hook-1.html

    Reply
    • Mama Jodi says

      May 19, 2012 at 6:20 am

      I’ll try to see if I can link up there later. This week is CRAZY for me. Thank you so much for letting me know about it.

      Reply
  2. Trish - Mom On Timeout says

    June 25, 2012 at 2:10 pm

    Oh so pretty and fun! Thanks for sharing Jodi! I’d love for you to link up to the Summer Reading Adventure party if you get the chance 🙂 http://www.momontimeout.com/2012/06/summer-reading-adventure-week-2-rainbow.html

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    • Mama Jodi says

      June 27, 2012 at 6:06 am

      I linked up. Thanks for the heads up.

      Reply
  3. inspiredbyfamilymag.com says

    July 4, 2012 at 4:00 am

    Enjoy! So glad you linked up to Summer Reading Adventure! Stop by at the end of the series to find out if you won the Tickle Monster book giveaway. Have a great 4th of July!

    Mari Hernandez-Tuten
    http://inspiredbyfamilymag.com/

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    • Mama Jodi says

      July 6, 2012 at 11:24 pm

      Thank you, Mari. Will do.

      Reply
  4. JDaniel4's Mom says

    July 7, 2012 at 12:12 pm

    What a beautiful craft! My son enjoys playing instead of cleaning at times too.

    I would love for you to link this post to Read.Explore.Learn on my blog!

    Reply
    • Mama Jodi says

      July 8, 2012 at 1:19 am

      I just linked up. Thanks for letting me know. I had fun visiting some of the other links as well.

      Reply
  5. Lydia @ Imperfect Bird says

    September 23, 2012 at 12:56 am

    Using this for my preschool Sunday school class tomorrow! The passage is mark 9:35 though:-) thanks so much!

    Reply
  6. rondalyn says

    March 30, 2015 at 2:58 am

    http://www.storylineonline.net has this story read aloud (with illustrations from the book with some animation) read aloud by Ernest Borgnine. There are lots of other great books read aloud by various actors as well. It’s a free site, and you don’t even have to set up an account, log in, give your email, nothing but watch and listen with your children.

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    • jodidurr says

      March 31, 2015 at 1:22 pm

      Thanks for this resource. I was unaware of this site, and I bet my kids would love it.

      Reply

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