QuickCraft Ocean eBook (QuickCraft theme eBooks are
really
popular on my site.)
Ocean
Craft
Activities
Over 200 printable
Ocean Activities. All printable to A4, ready to go
activities. Teacher/parent
resources, Ocean
Activity
Sheets,
Craft
and Cooking
plus Ocean children's poems written by an award winning poet.
Activities include, Octopus Fingers,
Crustaceans, Pollution, Ocean Science, Cellophane Fish, Shiny Sharks,
pirate
patch and hat, beach activities and so much more. For use year
after year, quick and easy to use. A fantastic addition to your
Ocean
Theme Unit.
Activity Cards, Games, and File Folder Games
You can use clipart from your computer program (or other sources),
or images (reduce it if needed) to make activity cards, games and
file folder games. If they are not colored images, paint it in a
program and put it in a table to make the game. Write the letters
(lower case and upper case or both together), numbers, words, etc. on
each one. Laminate. Put in a sealable bag or place in a
file folder.
Craft
Under the Sea Craft
Make lots of fish, and other sea animals (octopus, whales, sharks,
etc). Tape or hang them in a box. You can glue blue paper
in the box or paint it blue.
Fish
Find these on my fish page: Eel, Fish
Theme and Rainbow Fish, Hammerhead
Shark, John Dory, Leopard Darter, Leopard Shark,
Rays (Sting Rays), Sawfish, Sea Horse, Sharks, Shortnose
Sturgeon, and Wrasse.
Mollusk
(Shellfish)
These include: clams, conches, mussels, oysters, scallops, sea snails,
squids, etc.
Crafts
Look at a photo of an octopus. Draw a circle. Draw or
cut two eyes out of paper. Draw or make eight legs. Draw
(or
make out of construction paper) on the legs a number of circles.
Cut
the octopus out with scissors. Repeat if you want to make more
than
one octopus.
Octopus Hotdogs!
This is kind of hard for preschoolers to do on their own but with a
little help and guidance, they can do it...especially the first few
cuts...
Give your child a plastic knife and show her/him how to slice
through the
hot dog starting at one end and stoping about an inch and a half from
the
other end...it will look kind of like one of those old time clothes
pins when
you spread the two pieces apart. Cut each of those pieces into
two
by making another slice the same way making sure you always stop before
getting
to the other end. Cut those four into eight and you now have the
legs
of the octopus. The inch and a half that was not cut is the head
and
you can make a couple of slits in the hot dog to represent eyes and
another
to make a smile. Boil the hot dog in water until the legs curl
and
the smile opens a bit. This octopus will sit up on a plate and
smile!
Crustaceans
Crustaceans are shellfish (mollusk). These include: crabs,
crayfish, lobsters, and shrimp.
Crab
Books
Physical Education:
Crab Walk Race
In an open area, place your hands (fingers facing away from you) and
your feet should be flat on the floor. Crawl backwards. See
who can win. You can do this with only one person and it is still
a lot of fun.
