Update: The most popular page here at Practical Homeschooling is my mini unit study about mermaids. After a little more work and lots of added resources, I’ve relaunched theMermaids Unit Study over on Squidoo. Please visit for additional resources!
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Age range: 3-8 years.
Mermaids are wonderful imaginary creatures that have inspired stories from many cultures. Children love fantasizing stories about mermaids, so I thought it befitting to create a unit study for this purpose.
This is not a curriculum, it’s a set of resources that you can use to help your children discover mermaids. Since mermaids are fictional beings, it’s difficult to find useful information to put a comprehensive unit study together on it.
Some of the info here is geared to adults. It’s up to you to tell them about mermaids in an age-appropriate way, and to explain the difference between real and fictional.
WARNING: The graphics in some of these links may contain partial nudity, so please review the pages before allowing your young children to see them.
About mermaids:
Images of mermaids:
David Delamarre has some beautiful portrayals of mermaids in his paintings.
Stories:
Dust Echoes: a Mermaid Story + study guide (pdf)
A brief summary of the original Little Mermaid story by Hans Christian Anderson. You can also listen to it in audio format for free here.
Colouring Pages
(Many of these links have more than one page available to colour!)
Worksheets:
Simple Cut and Paste Mermaid Puzzle
Activities:
Mermaid Party Games! (lots of neat activities to do!)
Suggested Reading:
Emily Windsnap: Three Swishy Mermaid Tales: Books 1-3
How to Draw Fairies and Mermaids (Usborne Activities)
Dora Saves Mermaid Kingdom! (Dora the Explorer)
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