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	Home - gARTbage Artworks - Children's gARTbage -What Can I Do? - Links - Ride the Wave for a Cleaner Ocean Navigators of a new Time & 5IMDC 2011 The 'Keep Track of your Beach Toys' Campaign by Teresa Espaniola With Roberta Dean and Rancho Santa Fe School The 'Keep Track of Your Beach Toy' mural project was designed for the purpose of teaching children to become responsible for their own beach toys. This project incorporates a mural, song and a coloring book that was illustrated by Isabelle Corlett. The coloring book follows the words to the song, where children are encouraged to count the toys they pack for the beach and make sure they bring home as many as they brought. It encourages children to understand and pay attention to how the wind, tide and surf can easily take their toys into the ocean where they become part of the problem of marine debris. Plastic toys can end up becoming an unwitting source of food for marine animals. All of the toys and plastic pieces on the mural were found on the beaches of Southern California. Roberta Dean demonstrates to grades K-3 of Rancho Santa Fe School how plastic toys can eventually harm marine life when left on the beach, taken by surf & tide or blown into the ocean. She shows them a piece that can easily be swallowed by birds, fish and mammals. The Kinder - 3rd graders choose their pieces of beach toy beach trash carefully to place on the 'Keep Track of Your Beach Toys' mural. They love to sort through the colorful found-and-washed plastic toys and broken toy pieces, which are left behind daily at our local beaches. Now these children are aware and will keep their toys out of the ocean. The children color their 'Keep Track of Your Beach Toys' coloring book illustrated by technical artist and children's book illustrator Isabelle Corlett. The words to the song of the same name are followed verse by verse in the pages of the book. How you can help: Encourage your children and grandchildren to be self responsible with their own toys and other things that they bring to the beach. Let them know that any toys left behind can end up in the ocean where they break down into smaller and smaller pieces of plastic. Pieces of plastic from the ocean have been studied and are found to soak up toxic chemicals that have polluted the ocean, and the plastic remains in its original composition – plastic made from chemicals. Plastic has been found in the stomachs of birds, fish and ocean mammals. The 'Keep Track of Your Beach Toys' coloring book: Illustrated by Isabelel Corlett Feel free to download the 'Keep Track of Your Beach Toys' coloring book (with this link). It is in pdf format and can be printed two-sided on regular letter sized paper in landscape format: (11" x 8.5"). There is also a 'Keep Track of Your Beach Toys' list and pledge certificate at the end of the coloring book. When children take part in something important, such as helping to stem the flow of plastic pollution into our rivers and oceans, they realize that they have a voice, they are powerful and can create positive change in their world. Here are a few sample pages from the coloring book and the words to the 'Keep Track of Your Beach Toys' song. You an also follow the tune by clicking on the link at the bottom of this page at end of the song words. The 'Keep Track of Your Beach Toys' song: By Teresa Espaniola and Tim Melon Chorus: I love my beach toys (beach toys beach toys beach toys beach toys) I keep track of them Where are my beach toys? (beach toys beach toys beach toys) Are they buried in the sand? Did I bring 5, did I bring 10? I count and take them home again My beach toys (beach toys beach toys beach toys beach toys) I keep track of them On my way to the beach today I knew just what the wind would do I knew how high the tide would be And if the surf was bigger than me 'Cause all these things can take my toys They slip away without a noise They don't belong deep in the sea Where all my favorite fish will be Chorus: I love my beach toys (beach toys beach toys beach toys) I keep track of them Where are my beach toys? (beach toys beach toys beach toys) Are they blowing in the wind? Did I bring 5, did I bring 10? I count and take them home again My beach toys (beach toys beach toys beach toys beach toys) I keep track of them I found out where my toys can go And who will eat them deep below Eating toys can make them sick So keeping track will do the trick And if my toys wash out to sea I have my parent come with me But if they get too far away The lifeguard comes to save the day Shouted out: I love dolphins I love whales! I love turtles and sea snails! I love all the creatures in the sea! I want them to live as long as me! Listen to the tune here: 'Keep Track of Your Beach Toys' tune

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The 'Keep Track of your Beach Toys' Campaign by Teresa Espaniola

With Roberta Dean and Rancho Santa Fe School

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The 'Keep Track of Your Beach Toy' mural project was designed for the purpose of teaching children to become responsible for their own beach toys. This project incorporates a mural, song and a coloring book that was illustrated by Isabelle Corlett. The coloring book follows the words to the song, where children are encouraged to count the toys they pack for the beach and make sure they bring home as many as they brought. It encourages children to understand and pay attention to how the wind, tide and surf can easily take their toys into the ocean where they become part of the problem of marine debris. Plastic toys can end up becoming an unwitting source of food for marine animals. All of the toys and plastic pieces on the mural were found on the beaches of Southern California.

Roberta Dean demonstrates to grades K-3 of Rancho Santa Fe School how plastic toys can eventually harm marine life when left on the beach, taken by surf & tide or blown into the ocean. She shows them a piece that can easily be swallowed by birds, fish and mammals.

The Kinder - 3rd graders choose their pieces of beach toy beach trash carefully to place on the 'Keep Track of Your Beach Toys' mural. They love to sort through the colorful found-and-washed plastic toys and broken toy pieces, which are left behind daily at our local beaches. Now these children are aware and will keep their toys out of the ocean.

The children color their 'Keep Track of Your Beach Toys' coloring book illustrated by technical artist and children's book illustrator Isabelle Corlett. The words to the song of the same name are followed verse by verse in the pages of the book.

How you can help:

Encourage your children and grandchildren to be self responsible with their own toys and other things that they bring to the beach. Let them know that any toys left behind can end up in the ocean where they break down into smaller and smaller pieces of plastic. Pieces of plastic from the ocean have been studied and are found to soak up toxic chemicals that have polluted the ocean, and the plastic remains in its original composition – plastic made from chemicals. Plastic has been found in the stomachs of birds, fish and ocean mammals.

The 'Keep Track of Your Beach Toys' coloring book:

Illustrated by Isabelel Corlett

Feel free to download the 'Keep Track of Your Beach Toys' coloring book (with this link). It is in pdf format and can be printed two-sided on regular letter sized paper in landscape format: (11" x 8.5"). There is also a 'Keep Track of Your Beach Toys' list and pledge certificate at the end of the coloring book. When children take part in something important, such as helping to stem the flow of plastic pollution into our rivers and oceans, they realize that they have a voice, they are powerful and can create positive change in their world.

Here are a few sample pages from the coloring book and the words to the 'Keep Track of Your Beach Toys' song. You an also follow the tune by clicking on the link at the bottom of this page at end of the song words.

The 'Keep Track of Your Beach Toys' song:

By Teresa Espaniola and Tim Melon

Chorus:
I love my beach toys (beach toys beach toys beach toys beach toys)
I keep track of them
Where are my beach toys? (beach toys beach toys beach toys)
Are they buried in the sand?
Did I bring 5, did I bring 10?
I count and take them home again
My beach toys (beach toys beach toys beach toys beach toys)
I keep track of them

On my way to the beach today
I knew just what the wind would do
I knew how high the tide would be
And if the surf was bigger than me

'Cause all these things can take my toys
They slip away without a noise
They don't belong deep in the sea
Where all my favorite fish will be

Chorus:
I love my beach toys (beach toys beach toys beach toys)
I keep track of them
Where are my beach toys? (beach toys beach toys beach toys)
Are they blowing in the wind?
Did I bring 5, did I bring 10?
I count and take them home again
My beach toys (beach toys beach toys beach toys beach toys)
I keep track of them

I found out where my toys can go
And who will eat them deep below
Eating toys can make them sick
So keeping track will do the trick

And if my toys wash out to sea
I have my parent come with me
But if they get too far away
The lifeguard comes to save the day

Shouted out:

I love dolphins I love whales!
I love turtles and sea snails!
I love all the creatures in the sea!
I want them to live as long as me!

Listen to the tune here: 'Keep Track of Your Beach Toys' tune