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Home Theme and activities Ocean. Ocean Theme and activities. They can represent the water, the beach, and seaweed. Characters or animals related to the ocean. Cover the floor with a large piece of blue plastic to represent water.
Have children wear mittens while they are playing with the blocks You may use fine salt, sea salt, or coarse salt to experiment with different textures. Seashell collage. Add fine sand or white glue to your poster paint. Use chalk to draw on sandpaper. Add paper tentacles to a paper plate to create an octopus. Blue, green, and brown tissue paper, construction paper, and cellophane paper. Collective ocean craft. Use Popsicle sticks to make ocean creature puppets. Paint with seagull feathers.
Materials to make your own fishing rods. Drawing: Coloring pages related to the theme. Stencils of marine animals. Creative coloring activity related to the theme. Role play: At the beach: sun hats, beach towels, sunglasses, umbrellas, sandals, sand toys, beach chairs, empty sunscreen bottles, magazines, etc. Deep sea fishing or crab fishing: rubber boots, raincoat, fishing rods, bait, hats, fishing tackle, fishing net, plastic fish, etc. Scuba diving: mask, snorkel, flippers, beach towels, bathing suits, oxygen tanks 2 litre soda bottles , anchor, etc.
You can use blue and green electrical tape to delimit your area and represent water and the banks. Manipulation: Memory game involving marine animals. Homemade or store-bought puzzles with beach or ocean scenes. Magical seashells: hide a marble under one of three seashells or plastic glasses. Move them around. Children follow the seashell hiding the marble with their eyes and then take turns lifting the seashells to find the marble.
Find crab, octopus, and dolphin illustrations. Laminate them and cut them to make original puzzles. Provide tongue depressors and pompons or ping-pong balls. Children use the tongue depressors like crab claws to deposit the pompons in a container.
Play pin the tail on the dolphin or whale. Transparent bottles filled with different shades of blue water. Ziploc bags filled with blue hair gel, blue salt, blue oil, etc. Be sure to close the bags well and seal them with hot glue. Children love manipulating the bags and watching the changes Marine animals can be made out of modeling dough. Pre-reading: Books related to the theme.
Provide headphones and CDs with the sound of waves. Children will love listening to the ocean! Picture books about fish and marine animals. Posters of marine animals. Finding Nemo book and CD set. Children can use the educatall. Pre-writing: Hunt and seek games. Various activity sheets related to the theme. Games using educatall. Tracing and maze activities. A cookie sheet filled with sand and a stick.
Children can write words or draw in the sand. Laminated fish illustrations. Children can use dry-erase markers to draw along the lines. Motor skills: An obstacle course through which children must move like crabs, sea turtles, or lobsters. Attach a cushion to each child's back. Have them crawl around like sea turtles or hermit crabs.
Divide your group into two teams and have a race. Bowling game: Use approximately 10 empty soda bottles. Glue a marine animal illustration to each bottle. Treasure hunt: Use ten pairs of fish.
Have children find the matching fish. I am moving like a This activity is great for transitions. Sensory bins: Sand table with beach toys which can be used to make sand castles, dig tunnels, etc. Container filled with ribbon, yarn, and string in every shade of blue along with tiny fish or seashells. Make magnetic fishing rods. Fish for various objects. You may also fill a bin with gooey blue substances Jell-O, blue baby oil, etc. Let children manipulate the content of the bin using a variety of containers, kitchen utensils, or plastic marine animals.
This activity can be somewhat messy but children love it! Science: Make your own wave machines! Ask each child to bring an empty 2-litre bottle. Fill them with water and add a few drops of food coloring.
Seal the caps and let children shake their bottle to make waves. Several different sizes and shapes of seashells along with magnifying glasses. You have to iron until you see a waxy print on the sandpaper. This is great for touch ups or just black-lining your design.
Tissue paper can be cut or torn by the children to make various shapes and sizes. OR if you prefer not using the fish shapes, how about tissue paper collages on paper using the various ocean colors blues, greens and purples. If so, provide small rubber stamps of fish for the children to stamp on fish pictures or furnish more tissue paper in other colors for them to tear and cut their fish shapes.
Do either of these when the ocean picture has dried. If you want to use this as a sort of a printing experience, you can have the children peel off the tissue paper when they have finished painting it on and while their projects are still wet, and the colors will remain, kind of a watercolor look. Tape blue cellophane or clear plastic on to the inside of each plate.
Decorate or paint. Creature Sponging Print with sponges shaped like under water creatures. Children could create any ocean creatures they like with any materials they like have scissors, variety of paper, paint, markers, yarn, etc. Under the Sea Put 3 colors of cutout fish with magnet attached on pond on floor. Use fishing pole with magnet attached to catch fish in order or by color recognition.
Or have different types of fish and fish by that. Beach Party! Mermaid Potion Freeze ice cubes made with water and one drop of blue food coloring per cube. Use warm water to prepare powdered lemonade drink mix and add one 12 oz. Ocean Snack Have blue jello — complete with gummy fish! Crazy Crabs Crazy crabs walk sideways, What a giddy way to go! Snails slip slide forwards And that is very slow! Ducks waddle, waddle, And that is funny too, And what about the hopping Of the big red kangaroo?
Actions:Translate words into actions. Cranky Crabs Five cranky crabs were digging on the shore. One swam into a net and then there were four. Four cranky crabs were floating in the sea. One got tangled up in seaweed then there were three. Three cranky crabs were wondering what to do. One dug a deep, deep hole. Then there were two. Two cranky crabs were warming in the sun. When the plates were complete, spray adhesive was very lightly applied and glitter sprinkled over the plate.
Most glitter adhered and very little came off. TIP: After doing the two plates with yarn—ribbon or slim strips of fabric would go more quickly. Layout pre-cut long pieces of string, twine, raffia, or fishing line, long-tube pasta, and plastic or fabric tropical flowers. When dry-it feels much like foam and stays three dimensional.
Rather than winners with each group, see which group can recover the most marbles. An alternative would be to float Frisbees on the water surface and have the kids place the marbles in the Frisbees. This tag game can be played in an open field or a gym. One child starts out as the shark and all others are minnows.
If they reach the other side they are safe. Method: Once tagged the minnows who are now sharks also help run and tag the remaining players. The lead shark is always the caller. Method: Once tagged the minnows sit down and become seaweed.
The last untagged minnow is the new shark. Get enough cushions or pillows or squares of paper so there is one per person. Play some background music. Variation: Ask children to be fish—swimming in the sea. When you stop the music tell them there is a big shark coming to eat them.
Play beach music and beach-ball volleyball; put umbrellas in the drinks, limbo dance, make ice-cream and leis! Check out the Outdoor Water Games Here …. Talk about swimming pool fun! Supply pretzel rods for fishing poles and peanut-butter to put on the ends to use as bait to snag the fish. Sprinkle sugar on the other half. Ocean and Beach! Fill each half with peanut butter, cream cheese, or Nutella.
Place triangle-shaped crackers in the center of each to simulate a sail. After fish are placed in the Jell-O Ocean, they also tend to soften. It is best that the Jell-O be eaten within a day after it is firm. Small white and black jelly-beans can be placed on the bottom to look like stones. This may also be made in individual small clear plastic cups. Use clear plastic punch cups to see the layers. Thomas On Friday: Back at school. You can choose your own islands.
And then… Make rainbow fish by coloring, painting, decorating and putting sequins on cut out fish shapes. Questions to ask: What happens when salt dissolves in water? What happens to the standing salt water after a few days? That does not mean that the salt disappears when this happens. The salt and water are mixed together in the solution.
When the water evaporates, the salt is left behind. The sodium and chloride atoms rejoin with each other. A SEAis a large body of relatively deep usually salt water with limited or no connection to the greater oceans of the world. An OCEAN is a vast body of saltwater forming the interconnected waterway that surrounds the entire world. According to the NOAA, there is only one global ocean. While there is only one global ocean, the seas are geographically divided into the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Antarctic Oceans.
These five oceans are not separate bodies of water; they form one continuous oceanic mass. The boundaries between these five oceans arose over time for a variety of historical, cultural, geographical, and scientific reasons. You must be logged in to post a comment. Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links, meaning I get a commission if you decide to purchase through my links, at no cost to you. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Read the full disclosure here.
Ocean Themed Activities These simple ocean-themed activities are sure to lead to hours of laughter and fun. Instructions Fill the bottle halfway with water.
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