Bring about ocean-inspired crafts.
Bring a classroom class on the sea and its inhabitants with ocean-themed crafts. An forcible follow-up action after a Journey to the beach or aquarium, ocean crafts---such as colourful fish, googly-eyed octopi and still decorative sand castings---are entertaining to beget and many of them one hurting for basic Art supplies.Nevertheless amassed than condign an educational thing, these crafts can besides twofold as a diverting hands-on career or decorations for an "Under the Sea" birthday class.
Fishies Swimming in the Sea
Turn Styrofoam eggs into colorful fish with foam-safe spray gloss and strips of alight tissue paper. Adults can advice kids spray a scarce coats of distemper onto their eggs. After the emulsion has Dried apricot, kids can attach lengths of fringed and scalloped tissue paper to the egg---starting at the wider end---to simulate fish scales. A bundle Of long standing tissue paper strips makes a festive tail. Cut a round fish bowl shape from blue construction paper or have the children draw and color in a large fish bowl on a piece of white paper. The children then trace their hands on a piece of construction paper and cut around the traced edges. After they glue the hand onto the fishbowl, add a googly eye near the base of the palm. Adding dried beans to the bottom of the bowl and gluing on a few pony bead "bubbles" will add texture to this ocean craft project.
Kids can mount their completed fish on a Styrofoam mannequin or secure a file encircling it and suspend it from the ceiling.
Handprint Fish Crafts
Comfort kids turn their handprints into their own House animal fish with this light craft project.Paper Octopus in a Watercolor Sea
This ocean craft project combines painting and collage and it's easy enough for young children to complete. Painting a watercolor background gives children the opportunity to practice basic brush strokes and further develop fine motor skills. Encourage kids to paint with colors one might find in the ocean such as blue, green and purple. The octopus that sits in the watercolor ocean is composed of several pieces, which adults can cut out before embarking on the craft activity. Let children place each piece, starting with the octopus legs and ending with the body.
Sand Casting
Next time you take a trip to the beach, bring along some pre-mixed plaster and create castings on the beach. Have kids comb the beach for shells, bits of sea glass, pebbles and slivers of driftwood. When they've assembled a collection of found objects, let them dig into the sand and form a shallow shape (a simple fish shape or a starfish works well). The children can arrange the found objects at the bottom of the shaped hole and press then gently into the sand. When they're ready to make their casting, pour plaster into the shape and let it set for an hour. When kids dig out their plaster shape, the front will be covered with found objects and sand.
