Ocean Crafts

This picture is sideways. It is a coral tracer that you can either have the children cut out (if they are skilled with scissors) or you can have them pre-cut for the kids. You let them paint with brushes or fingers with orange, red, etc. and then let them sprinkle puffed rice on top of the paint to look like a coral reef. This is a crab that you let the children paint with karo syrup mixed with red dye. It leaves a shiny effect. Have them sprinkle it with sand if they want after they are done painting it.
This lobster can be traced and cut out by the children. Add brad fasteners so that the kids can move the arms.
This is just one of many fish activities you can do. Cut out the triangle for the mouth and use that same triangle for the tail fin. Hole punch the eye to encourange greater hand strength. Then you can color or paint it. We added glitter since we read the Rainbow Fish that day.
*You can also make a "fish bowl" craft by cutting a fish bowl shape out of construction paper, painting it with blue karo syrup, adding small rocks (colored are best) to the bottom of the bowl, then sticking goldfish crackers in the bowl.

*Make sandcastles out of clay and sand mixed together. When they dry the children can take them home.

*Paper bag fish- fill a lunch sack 1/2 full of old newspaper and then tie it with a string. Fan the end of the bag to look like a tail. Add googley eyes to each side and let the children decorate it with markers, crayons, glitter and glue, etc.

*Octopus- Have the children cut eight strips of paper and then # them from 1-8. You could have the top of the octopus already cut out or let them trace and cut it out. Then have them put the legs on the octopus in order 1-8.

*Jellyfish- Have the children trace and cut out a semi-circle for the top of the jellyfish. Use crepe paper for the tenticles. Let them choose how long they want the tenticles and then glue them on to the top. Hang them from the ceiling and the fan or A/C will make them move.

*Sharks- Cut out a large shark head with mouth open and have the children cut out little triangles for the teeth. Have them glue the teeth in the sharks mouth and color the shark.