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Jellyfish Prior to activity display pictures of jellyfish and talk about how the jellyfish looks like a blob in the water and has a jelly like appearance. Talk about tentacles. For the activity, cut paper plates in half. Children can paint the plate and then glue on streamers to make tentacles. On the back of the plate, children can glue bubble wrap to give the jelly-like appearance. . |
Rainbow Fish Read the stories of the Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. Bring in some frozen fish for the children to look at (or real fish in a bowl if you can) and talk about the beautiful shiny scales and the parts of the fish's body. As an extension provide fish shapes for children to paint as their own "Rainbow Fish". To create the scales provide sequins in varied colours for the children to glue on with strong glue. |
Under the Sea Display Board Photocopy and cut out sea creatures. We painted these with water-based palette paints. You can have the children paint over them with glitter paints to give a shimmery effect. Pin them onto a blue background, and use crepe paper to create coral, seaweed and sand dunes. |
Sea Collage Have children paint a sheet of paper in blue and green paint. Encourage the children to cover the sheet completely. When the paint is dry provide a range of sea themed pictures which can be cut from magazines and wraping paper (good idea for an adult to start preparing these weeks before they are needed to ensure enough pictures are available.) Fish, boats, shells, people swimming etc look very effective on the coloured background. |
Other Ideas Gluing with sand and shells on card If you can collect a bucket of shells and rake them through your sand box, children will enjoy finding them. Set up towels, buckets and spades, beach umbrella and other beach items so children can role play going to the beach. Set up a water trolley and colour the water with blue edicol dye. Put sand and shells into the water and provide plastic sea creatures for children to play with. |
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A Sea themed felt board with felt sea creatures |
Under the Sea painted on a window |
- Portfolio Activity |
