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Craft and Fun Ideas

Craft Ideas

The following sheets are additional ideas for you to use with your “Under the Sea” theme. Most supplies needed with these craft ideas are probably supplies you already have on hand for your child care / preschool. Check the supplies needed with each craft before you do them to have supplies on hand. Have fun! Jean

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Under the Sea – Craft and Ideas

Show and Tell Some ideas to have for show and tell are a shell, sand dollar, sea sponge, small bag of beach sand, toy boat or a picture of a sea animal. (Ask parents if they have any of the above items for show & tell). Talk with the children about the items you have and ask questions. If they ask you something you don’t know, look the information up on the computer. The children are like sponges. They want to know everything. ☺

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Fish, Fish, Shark

This game is based on the game, duck, duck, gray duck. Have the children sit in a circle with one child being “it”. The child walks around tapping the other children on the head saying fish each time, until he taps one child on the head saying shark. The child, who was tapped on the head with shark, jumps up and runs around the circle chasing the other child to see who gets back to the empty space first.


Flying Fish Socks

Supply a large box. Paint the box blue to represent the ocean. Ask parents to send in any clean, unmatched white socks, they don’t want. Have the children use permanent markers to decorate the socks to resemble fish. Once the fish have been decorated, fill the socks partially with dried beans, sand or rice. Secure the ends with rubber bands. Let the children take turns tossing the flying fish into the box. (Great small motor activity).


Aquarium Take 2 paper plates and cut out the inner circle. Tape blue cellophane or clear plastic onto the inside of each plate. Glue fish, sand and seaweed to the inside and then glue and staple paper plates together. (The glue will creative a barrier to keep items inside and the staples will keep it together). Seahorse Cut out a figure of a sea horse on white card stock. Have children spread glue all over the seahorse. Glue on a goodly eye. Let the children sprinkle the seahorse with sand it to give it – its texture. (Use following sheet for this project). Finger Paint with Ocean Colors Have children paint on a large piece of white paper with their fingers. Have them paint a “sea creature”. After paint dries, have children use other materials to finish their sea creature. (Scissors, variety of paper, markers, yarn, etc). Put paintings together to create a group mural. Circle Fish Cut out a 6” circle from construction paper and glue to a 11 x 8 ¼ piece of light blue construction paper. Cut out a triangle from the same color as the circle and attach to the back of the circle for a tail. Draw eyes, mouth, gills, fins, a fish line with a hook and worm. 1 – 2 – 3 Learn Curriculum Graphic Used: Graphic Factory

Seahorse

Seahorse

Paper Plate Jelly Fish Gather paper plates, glue, crepe paper and scissors. Cut each plate in half, giving each child ½ of the plate. Cut several 6 inch pieces of crepe paper. Have children glue these pieces onto the bottom edge to look like tentacles. Use marker or crayons to make a face on the plate. Cereal Fish Art Using colorful cereal, have children glue on pre-cut fish shapes. Attach a piece of yarn for hanging. Aquarium in a Bag Supplies needed: zip-loc bag, blue hair gel or gel toothpaste, gummy fishes. Fill bag with gel, add the fish, seal the bag. Using masking tape, place on the zip lock side of the bag to eliminate bag opening. Let children squish and squeeze the bag as they watch the fish swim.


Octopus Color Changes Discuss with the children how an octopus will change colors to blend with its surrounding. Print up the following sheet onto white cardstock. Color each octopus a different color. (Red, orange, green, blue, purple, black, brown, pink). Set out four or eight matching sheets of construction paper. Depending on if you color 4 or 8 octopuses. Ask the children to match the octopus with the matching background.


Print up 2 of this sheet onto white cardstock

Print up 1 of this sheet onto white cardstock

Bubble Fish Cut out a large angelfish shape from white paper. In small bowls, add bubble mixture with a small bit of food coloring. (Red, blue, yellow and green). Have children blow colored bubbles onto the fish. Makes beautiful tropical fish. Starfish Using tag board, cut out starfish shapes. Let children glue Cheerios on to stimulate the receptacles. Big Fish, Little Fish Print up sheets of big and little fish. (2 – 3 copies of each sheet). Color the large fish each a different color. (Red, green, blue, etc). Color each of the smaller fish the same colors you used on the large fish. Have children match the correct color little fish to the big fish. Children will have fun learning their colors and the difference between large and small.



Big Fish – Little Fish


Water Table Fun In your water table, fill the table ¼ full of sand. Add many different kinds of shells, plastic crabs, small plastic medicine cups (to make small sand castles). Also include some tablespoons for shovels. The children can have a great time searching for shells. When your Under the Sea theme is over, you can have the children search for all the shells and place them in a small tub of warm, soapy water and toothbrushes. Have the children help clean the shells up to be put away. Sorting Fish Have several different kinds and colors of small plastic fish. Put your plastic fish in a basket. Let the children take turns sorting them by color, shape and by size. Shopping Fish Source: Kaplanco.com - Chunky sorting Fish – Ages 2 and up. Feed the Shark Draw a large shark face on a piece of poster board or the side of a box. Cut a hole out where the shark’s mouth would be and add paper teeth. (Make the hole at least twice the size of the beanbag). Tape the board to a chair and let each of the children take 3 tried to feed the shark, by throwing a beanbag into the shark’s mouth).


Shark Tooth Hunt Put several shark teeth (real or fake) in your sand table. Let children sift through the sand and find the teeth. Sponge Animals Cut star fish and fish shapes out of sponges. Let children play with these in the water table. Dive under the Ocean Put several plastic ocean creatures under a sheet. Call out a child’s name and say “child’s name - dive under the ocean”, then have that child go under the sheet and retrieve a ocean creature. When they have their creature, have them tell the other children what it is. (If they are too young, you can tell them). Note: if you have a parachute, use that in place of the sheet, because the children will have a handle to hold, raising the “ocean” as the child dives in. Shopping source: Kaplanco.com, Soft Fishing Set. Ages 18 mths and up. Fish in the Ocean (Game) Have one or several children be the shark. The rest of the children must try to cross the ocean (a set space that you specify) and not get eaten (tagged) by the shark. If they get caught, then they join the shark/s to try and catch more fish. Keep playing until everyone is sharks.


Fishy Pokey Play like the Hokey Pokey. Put your left fin in, take your left fin out. You do the fishy pokey and you turn yourself around, that’s what it’s all about. Put your right gill in, take your right gill out. (etc). Beach Towel Day Let the children bring in a beach towel during beach week. They can take naps on them or sit on then during circle/story time. Starfish Draw a star fish on blue paper. Cut out. Apply glue to the inside of the star fish shape and then sprinkle on dry oatmeal. Let dry and remove the excess. Starfish Rubbing Cut starfish out of sandpaper. Cut out different sizes and use different grades of sandpaper. Give each child a plain piece of white paper and crayons. Tape the stars around the table and have the children place their paper over the star and rub.

Diving Fish Take a clear two-liter bottle and draw sea shapes (seaweed, waves, etc) on the outside of it with a permanent marker. Fill the bottle mostly full with water. Next add about a 1/4-cup of white vinegar and 1 Teaspoon of baking soda to the bottle. Drop a small handful of raisins into the bottle. And then watch. The raisins will collect bubbles all around them from the vinegar and baking soda chemical reaction this will cause them to float to the top. Once the reaction calms back down they will sink back down and then form more bubbles (causing them to rise again!) This will repeat for up to a half-hour.

Octopus Wind Sock

Cut the end out of a paper bag. Next have children paint the bag and decorate it as an octopus. Have them attach eight streamers (tentacles) to the end of the bag. On the other end of the bag punch two holes (reinforce with tape and then punch) and put yarn through it. Children can now hang up the octopus windsock outside a window and watch the wind blow through it.

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Fishing Snack Supplies: Blue napkins, small cups, pretzels, gold fish crackers, peanut butter. Directions: • Open up napkin and place fish in the middle – the

napkin is the ocean. • Have peanut butter in the cup – this is the bait cup. • Use pretzels for fishing rods. Dip in bait (peanut butter)

and catch a fish. • Eat fish and bait. Keep fishing until all the fish are eaten.

(Be aware of any food allergies!)

Edible Aquariums

Get in the swim with these fun to make edible aquariums. To make an edible aquarium, add a few drops of blue food coloring to a container of softened cream cheese. Spread some of the cream cheese mixture on top of a piece of melba toast; then press on a few tony goldfish crackers. These snack sensations are sure to make a splash with the children!


Shells and Sand Boil shell macaroni until tender, drain, have children add butter or margarine and then add parmesan cheese. Shells and sand.

Cinnamon Sea Snails

You will need crescent rolls, soft butter, cinnamon and sugar. Separate the dough into triangles. Have the children spread the butter on one side, sprinkle the cinnamon and sugar over the butter. Start with one end of the triangle and roll into a spiral. Bake as directed, let cool and enjoy!

Starfish Biscuits

Using a star cookie cutter, let each child cut out a star from refrigerated biscuit dough, bake. When only a few minutes are left on baking, add cheese strips onto each star limb.

Edible aquariums

Pour blue Jello® into clear plastic cups, refrigerate. Give each child an aquarium, along with gummy ocean animals (sharks, fish, etc;). Let each child put their gummy friends into the blue ocean with a spoon and eat!


Whale Blubber Ingredients: ½ cup water ½ cup white glue ½ cup water 2 tablespoon borax Directions: Have you ever wondered what fat looks like? Make this recipe to find out. Combine the first two ingredients. In a separate bowl combine the next two ingredients. Pour the glue mixture into the borax mixture stirring constantly.

Sea Shell Sort and Match Cut a variety of seashell shapes, color and sizes from paper.Have the children do a variety of things with the cut outs. • Sort by color • Sort by shape • Sequence from smallest to largest • Match by shape • Match by color • Hide them around the room and search for them

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