A story and activity.
You will need a honey
bottle bear-shaped (cleaned out), food coloring, bleach and a dropper.
Once upon a time there
was a beautiful white polar bear who often
visited the St. Lawrence
Island in Alaska. Now on this island, you
find a little schoolhouse
filled with many boys and girls and their
beloved teacher, Ms.
Andrews.
It
seems as though a neighbouring child from Siberia ventured across
the Bering Strait
to St. Lawrence Island. Her name was Tatiana,
and she had beautiful
golden hair. As she explored the island, she
soon met Mr. Polar
Bear. The children watched out the windows of
the schoolhouse as
the bear wished he had golden hair like
Tatiana's. He
shut his eyes tightly and wished very hard for golden
hair.
Now will you just shut
your eyes for a moment and help polar bear
make his wish?
(take a dropper and
drop 2 drops of yellow food coloring into
the bottle)
Now you may open your eyes! AMAZING!
A blond polar bear-
Oh, my goodness! Do you know what the
children shouted out
the windows of the schoolhouse? Do you think
they liked a BLOND
polar bear? (
get children to slap, slap, clap,
clap, and snap and
say:)
POLAR BEAR, POLAR BEAR
YOU ARE A SIGHT!
YOUR COLOR WAS RIGHT
WHEN YOU WERE WHITE!
Mr. Polar Bear was
MIGHTY SAD! He thought the children would
like his new golden
color! He climbed on an ice berg and began to
think about his problem.
Now, as Mr. Bear rested,
he caught a new scent in the air. What did
he smell? As
he raised his head and looked around, he saw a young
boy coming closer.
Rene was from the GREEN
forests of Canada. He wore a green
hat, a green sweater,
green pants, and green boots. Guess what he
had in his pocket?
Rene had a GREEN lollipop! Polar Bear thought
GREEN must be the
most beautiful color in the world! Maybe he
should be a green
bear. He shut his eyes and began to wish he was
green. Can you
help Mr. Bear?
(put 2 drops of blue in)
Now he was a GREEN polar bear!! But the children said:
(slap,slap...repeat chant above)
Now this made Mr. Bear
feel real bad. He pouted and pouted. Polar
bear began to walk
across the snow. As he topped a big snow drift,
he met COUSIN BROWN
BEAR from Kodiak Island. Cousin
Brown Bear had followed
the path of green tears that came from
polar bear.
The two bears had a nice, long visit and before long,
Polar Bear began to
admire his SMART COUSIN. The Kodiak
Bear is the world's
largest bear and gets angry very quickly. Polar
Bear thinks maybe
the children would like him if he were brown
instead. Let's
shut our eyes and wish with Polar Bear.
( add 2 drops of red, and repeat chant above)
Polar Bear felt so
bad, he ran away from the children and dove in
the ice cold waters
of the Bering Sea. Polar bears are the best
swimmers of all bears.
His thick, heavy fur was now BROWN
and
looked quite strange
as the children of Gambel watched him swim
DEEP, DEEP, DEEP into
the sea. Now, if you will just shut your
eyes and think about
Polar Bear swimming around under the cold,
cold water, a tiny
bit of Alaska magic might happen.
(add bleach to the
water, while their eyes are closed, continue
to talk about polar
bear swimming while the bleach takes
effect)
Polar Bear swims up, up, up,up, to the surface and guess what!
(chant)
POLAR BEAR, POLAR BEAR
Your color IS right!
WE LOVE YOU!
WE LOVE YOU!
YOU ARE WHITE!
Polar Bear decided
NEVER to change his color again. After all,
polar bears are supposed
to be WHITE,
RIGHT? ***
*** After studying
polar bears, the kids should be able to tell you that polar bears really
aren't white. This is a fun activity though, so I wanted to include
it.
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