Keep track of your young mermaids growth with her mermaid friends and colorful sea creatures. This hardy growth chart is printed on canvas and is ready to hang. It will instantly make an exciting change to the décor in your kids room.
Mermaid Growth Chart
“You know humans grow very fast,” said Olive to her father, her blue hair bobbed and floated around her as she swam through the halls of her under sea castle. “Yes, I know,” said her father. His strong tail propelled him through the water so fast, that Olive had to swish her tail twice as fast just to keep up with him. “That’s why we have to find a way to keep up with their growth.” He frowned, scratching his chin with the end of his trident. “They grow so much more quickly than we do down here.” He mused, his tail flicked harder as he lost himself, going over and over ways to correct this pressing problem. Olive found herself swimming at top speed and still being left behind. “Well what if we create something that could measure that growth?” “Yes..measure..” Her father’s stern look worried Olive.
“Why is the measuring so important, anyway?” she asked. It made no sense to her. Her father stopped suddenly and Olive had to struggle to avoid running into the back of his tail. He turned slowly and looked at her astonished. “You haven’t been keeping up on your history studies have you?” Olive looked sheepish, “ohm…no, I guess I wasn’t paying attention during that lesson.” She stared down at her tail, until she heard her father’s slow exhale of breath. “Olive, the measuring is important because the more the little humans grow and become stronger, the stronger our world becomes.” She stared at her father bewildered. He looked at her amused at the confusion he saw in her eyes. “Our world exists only if they grow in their imagination. The more they believe in us, the stronger we become.” Olive stammered, “So, we’re a part of them?” Her father bent low to look directly into Olive’s eyes. “Yes, and the more they grow, the more they dream and the more they dream, the bigger our world becomes. Do you understand?”
Olive looked around at the colorful patterns of red coral, green sea turtles, blue octopus, and yellow starfish that made up the world she had grown up in. The little mermaid watched the swirling patterns of bubbles as they floated upward from the surface of the ocean floor and wondered what would happen to her world if they couldn’t find a solution to this problem. “What if I asked Neddie Dad?” Her father smiled, but gently shook his head, “Neddie is just a a little person, honey, and she’s not going to be able to help us.” Olive frowned and grabbed her Dad’s arm, “No Dad, little kids are smart. They can see things big people can’t see anymore because when you’re big you’re too busy worrying about big people problems. That’s why the big people can’t pretend anymore. I know she’ll be able to help. Can I talk to her please?” Her father stared at his young daughter and was amazed at how beautiful, and insightful she had become over the years. “Well, if she’s as smart and as pretty as you are then I think our problem will be solved.” He grinned and Olive puffed up with pride. “She is Dad.”
Olive swam to the edge of the mermaid kingdom and found the opening to the human world easily. Each mermaid in her world is educated about the human world and shown the place where their world and the human world meet. It’s a small opening through the crevice of a great undersea mountain that opens up to the room of any small girl who’s décor of her bedroom is decorated with the images of their underwater world. Sometimes a mermaid might enter through a picture or a piece of art or sometimes a door or a bedspread. Each time it is different. The entrance way moves from picture to mermaid plush pillow to mermaid drapes. Each piece of the Mermaid bedroom set is a portal to their world. Neddie loves the fact that she never knows when or where one of the mermaids from the underwater world might show up in her world, but she always knows it will be in her room.
Olive came through the wall paper cutouts this time. She looked closely around the room before she made her whereabouts known to Neddie so she would not frighten her. Neddie was standing up against her wall, and her mother was standing next to her with a pencil. Olive watched as her mother knelt down and pressed the back of Neddie’s head against the wall and asked her to stand up straight as she touched the pencil to the wall just above the crown of Neddie’s head and drew a line. Neddie’s face brightened and they both were laughing. Neddie stepped away from the wall and her mother wrote something on the line she’d created and then smiled as she pointed to the wall and spoke in low tones that Olive was unable to hear. Her mother hugged Neddie tightly and smiled before she left the room. Olive called to Neddie from the wall paper cutout, “Hey Neddie, over here.” Neddie looked around for the familiar voice and recognized Olive’s blue hair and funny smile. “Hi Olive, did you see how tall I am now?” Neddie pointed to the small pencil scratches on the wall. Olive looked closer at the mark. It had some numbers next to it and the words “five years old” written on it. “What does that mean?” asked Olive. Neddie laughed at Olive’s confusion. “Mommy and I measure how tall I am and we mark it on the wall, silly.” Olive looked closer and saw little penciled lines in different spots moving up the wall. Each one had a number and an age next to it. Her smile grew. “Neddie, I have to go, because I have to tell my Dad something, but I’ll be right back so we can play.”
Neddie smiled and waved as Olive left to go back to her world. She swam back to the castle as fast as her little fin could take her. By the time she got back to her Dad she was out of breath and it took her father a few minutes to calm her down before she could explain to him what she had seen in Neddie’s bedroom. Her father’s eye’s lit up and he hugged his little girl hard before he swam off to begin making plans to create a mermaid growth chart that would help his people track the growth of imaginations of the little kid’s in Neddie’s world. When it was created, Olive presented Neddie with the very first one, and each year, the mermaid world watches as she and her imagination grow.
Growth Chart measures 12 x 43 inches
Marked for measuring both inches & centimeters.
Printed on high-quality canvas. Corners have grommets and include a 28" decorative aqua grosgrain ribbon & tacks for easy hanging. Mark wall with a pencil 60 inches up from the floor, line up the pencil mark with the 60 inch mark on the growth chart and hang on wall.
