Personal crisis, like random changes in weather, often strikes without warning, leaving us with fear and worry. Ocean Surprises describes unexpected events during an ocean storm as challenges faced by all inhabitants of the ocean, no matter their color, size or location in the ocean.
In the book, Ocean Surprises, a grandfather seahorse helps calm the fears of his grandson by pointing to sea shells successfully navigating a scary storm while explaining how courage allows spirits to grow stronger and fear to diminish in order to outlast personal storms.
Click on the free download activity book that accompanies Ocean Surprises. These fun art and abstract thinking activities are geared for ages 4 and above. Through the ocean and its inhabitants children can begin to develop conceptual and critical thinking skills in managing situations beyond their control. This is a perfect tool both for libraries and home school projects and is especially helpful for military families with deployed parents.
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