| | | |  | |  | | | | | THE SEA AND SHELLS Skin diving and glass-bottom boats may not be within everyone’s reach, but many movies have been made showing the wonders of the sea. Watch for these. Keep a scrapbook. Make drawings of seaweed and collections of shells (below). Become a beachcomber, looking for interesting deadwood, glass fragments and other objects washed up by the sea.
Shell Collection
The best time to collect shells is when the tide is far out, or in the early morning before the beach has been picked clean of unusual varieties.
Shells can be mounted with household cement on heavy corrugated paper cut from a carton and painted or covered. They can be mounted on a thin board, or “free” form such as a flat piece of driftwood. Small shells can be kept in molded egg cartons. They can be grouped by related families, such as varieties of clams, or by locations where found, such as Oregon Coast, or Gulf Coast.
Write or paste in, below each shell, its name when pos-sible, and where and when found. (To mount in plaster of Paris, see 173.)
References
See 2, also the encyclopedia; Undersea Explorer, by
James Dugan, Harper, 1957 (nine years and up); My Hobby
Is Collecting Sea Shells, by Ruth Dudley, Hart; The Silent
World, by J.-Y. Cousteau and F. Dumas, Harper or Pocket
Books (paper) (twelve years and up).
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