Rainbow Fish

The Rainbow Fish (by Marcus Pfister) is a great book on sharing. I made flannel board pictures to go with it using pellon. I used Elmer's glue and glitter to make the shining scales that he shares with the other fish. An activity that I have seen done with this story is to get swedish and put them in little snack baggies (if you have 10 kids in you class you will need 10 bags of fish). Then have a little fishing pole with a magnet on it and the childrens' names on paper with a paper clip on each name. Have each child fish for a friend's name and then they take a bag of fish and give it to that friend. Of course every child will get a bag of fish so assure them of that if they start to get restless. Remind them of the story and how happy it makes the Rainbow Fish feel when he shares things he really likes with his friends.