What is a Good Ocean Themed Craft for Kindergarten?

Question

Can someone please suggest an easy ocean themed craft for my Kindergarten class? Thank you!

Answer 1

Check Usborne Books for many great project books!  Check out the Big Book of Playtime Activities and the Big Book of Things to Do.  http://www.ubah.com/g2687

Answer 2

you could probably have the kids cut out pictures of fish and sea animals and paste them onto blue construction paper and tape them together and call it: "Our Class's Ocean of Fish!"

Answer 3

Make a jellyfish by cutting a paper plate in half.  Off of the straight side kids can glue streamers, ribbons etc.

Read Rainbow Fish (a GREAT book for kindergarten!!) and make colorful fish, but the kids can also glue aluminum foil etc for the sparkley effect like rainbow fish, OR google rainbow fish activities and there are so many!!

Kids LOOOVE murals!!  If you have access to large rolls of paper or butcher paper, have it spread across the lenth of a wall.  kids can draw sea life, you can have an area with pre printed sea creatures they can color, cut and paste on, maybe stamps to put on?  Cut pictures frmo a magazine to put on the mural.  Put paint on some of their hands and help them make their handprint upside down...the upside down handprints can become jellyfish or an octopus.

Answer 4

I've seen a cool craft for ocean done in stages:

1. Kids watercolor a 9x12 white sheet of construction paper with blue for the water.

2. Fold a 9x12 black sheet of construction paper. Starting from the folded edge, draw a squiggly line with white chalk to create the line for a frame. Cut on the white line.

3. On the remainder black center that was cut out, use flourescent neon colored chalks to draw and cut out fish.

4. Glue the frame onto the water background. Glue the fish swimming around the center.

5. If you'd like to add more detail, use scrap pieces of construction paper to cut seaweed or sea anemones or starfish. Glue those pieces in the center.

6. The end result is a paper sea aquarium that has contrast, bright colors, and lots of practice with cutting.

Answer 5

you could like color an ocean animal or something els really easy.

Answer 6

You can make a fish out of their handprint. Let them cut out and decorate

Rainbow fish - shiny scales

Octopus - paper plate folded over with 8 black streamers

aquarium with two paper plates - one with a circle where they glue on gummy fish and one with blue cellophane to cover the fish

Answer 7

Paint a paper plate all red and  fold in half and legs/pinchers  to make a crab

Answer 8

You could do something like making various ocean animals out of hand and footprints or you could do ocean stations. One staion could be painting ocean animals and another could be reading Rainbow Fish and so on...

Answer 9

cut out two of the same fish, and staple them together, but put cotton balls on the inside and then color the outside with stamps and other fun coloring utensils.

Answer 10

One really terrific craft I saw  on a site was an Ocean Qult.

IT features handprint crabs and fish, plus moon jellyfish that the teacher designed, and patchwork fish from TLC's Ocean Thematic Unit book (www.tlacart.com)

Check it out at this link--

http://www.kinderkorner.com/underthesea....

Here are some more links- http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/fish...

http://www.first-school.ws/activities/ar...

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/...

http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow8/dec98/...

Have fun! :)