Sea Urchin
Materials:- Play Dough (Make your own in the recipes section)
- Tooth Picks
- Paint or color the play dough
- Talk about Sea Urchins and show your kids pictures of sea urchins, Then let them create their own sea urchins using the above materials.
Paper Plate Aquarium
Materials:- Tissue Paper
- Googly Eyes
- Yarn
- Paint
- Glitter
- Paper Plates or Clean Meat Trays
- Plastic Wrap
- Give the kids a paper
plate (or meat tray) and have them create an aquarium scene on the top side
of the plate. Then over that plate tape a second plate (or meat tray) that you
have cut out a hole at the top (can cover with Plastic wrap). This makes it
look like your looking into an aquarium.
3D Sea Creatures
Materials:- Poster Board
- Tissue Paper
- Googly Eyes
- Yarn
- Paint
- Glitter
- Cotton Balls or Cutup Paper
- Give each child a cutout of some creature. Let them decorate the creature however they want (hint: for cool gills use glue and sprinkle glue on it). Then connect the two halves, stuffing them with the cotton balls. Makes a great 3D fish.
Rainbow Fish
(to be done while reading Rainbow
Fish Book)Materials:
- Poster Board or Construction Paper
- Tissue Paper
- Googly Eyes
- Aluminum Foil (For Shiny Gills)
- Paint
- Glitter
- Cotton Balls or Cutup Paper
- Glue
- First Read the Book and
then let your kids design their own rainbow fish.
Hand Octopus
Materials:- Paper
- Googly Eyes
- Finger Paints
- Let the kids put finger paint all over their hands (in any combination that they wish) then have them put a hand print on the paper. Next have them put another hand print overlapping the last but pointing in the opposite direction. The base of the hand creates the body of the octopus. The fingers make the tentacles.