[Triangle Fish] [Sand
Castles] [Starfish] [Shell
Chimes] [Rainbow Fish] [Shark]
[Oatmeal Octopus] [Oceans]
[Sea Pails]
Cut a 9" X 12" piece of construction paper diagonally from
corner to corner.
Now you have triangle to make two fish. Cut a muffin paper in quarters.
Glue one quarter to the tail, one quarter to the top near the right angle
and one quarter to the middle of the bottom (the longest side) for fins.
Add eyes and decorate anyway you desire. We usually use crayons and markers.
Children dig a hole in wet sand that is in the sand table
They then add small shells and rocks to the walls of the hole
The teacher then pours plaster of paris in the holes
When it is taken out, it is a permanent sand "castle."
Draw a starfish on blue paper.
Apply glue to the inside of the starfish shape, and then sprinkle on cornmeal.
Let dry and remove the excess meal.
You can use cheerios for suction cups
You can also get a realistic starfish by cutting one out of sandpaper.
Tie several pieces of brightly colored yarn around a cardboard tube,
a dowel, or a piece of driftwood, leaving one inch of space between each
string.
Tie three or four seashells on each string, positioning them so they will
hit each other when they are blown in the wind.
Glue the shells in place.
Attach a string hanger to the tube and hang it outside where it will
blow in the wind.
Provide each child with a fish shape copied on construction paper. Give them pre cut tissue paper and let the children glue on tissue and one piece of foil to represent the scale Rainbow Fish give to the others.
Take a long, white envelope and seal it.
Then cut the end off of one end.
Cut a triangle into the other end (save the triangle to make a fin)
You can cut nicks along the edges to look like sharp teeth.
Make eyes with a black marker
such as
Glue fin on top of envelope. It can be a puppet as the students arms should
go through it.
Let kids color dry oatmeal by putting it in a baggie with 1 T. of
Powdered tempera & shaking.
Give each child an octopus pattern for them to spread with glue & shake
on the colored mixture.
Give each child a white piece of paper.
Allow them to wet the paper with a squirt bottle
Ask the kids to make a collage with blue scraps of tissue paper on a piece
of white paper. They should cover the entire paper, but need no glue.
When the paper dries, the tissue will fall off, but the colors will remain
The children can us fish stamps all over the picture.
Cut large pails out of yellow construction paper.
Cut out sea shapes (seahorse, shark, fish, starfish and an octopus)out of
tagboard.
Have the kids choose 4 shapes and lightly tape them to the pail.
Use sponges to dip into blue and green paint and sponge painte around the
edges of the shapes
Sprinkle some sand on the wet paint.
Remove the tagboard stencils
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