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Teaching and learning with kids and their creativity is so rewarding. Make these creative sea animal crafts and activities with kids. Great ideas for imaginative preschoolers and children who love to make ocean creatures like fishes, octopus, sharks, water plants, crabs, lobsters, star fish, whale, turtles, coral reef and so much more.
Since the ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul. here are some fun loving activities for your kids to help them learn, make, and inspire in the best way with games and DIY craft ideas related to sea animals. Activities in this collection are applicable to all age groups from toddlers – kindergartners to 5th graders.
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Teach your kids how to make this fun card here. Let their imagination go wild in choosing animals and their positions. The idea is to use puffy paint to color the sea creatures and use digital stamps for the base.
Kids love to explore underwater life at aquariums and museums, what they would love more than that is if they had their own aquarium to play with all day. Even if they are not yet ready to pet a living sea creature but they are definitely ready to make their very own aquarium, tutorial here.
The old school shoe box activity never gets old, and they even have printable for you to choose from.
Main equipment for this project include Mason Jar and lots of sea creature figurines, tutorial here.
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This tutorial uses very basic craft materials like pipe cleaners, beads and obviously egg cartons to create master pieces, here.
Sew a fabric or felt mobile.
Upcycle old and broken crayons into interesting water animal shapes using molds filled with crayons and melt them in the oven to reshape, tutorial here.
Make this fun decorative hanging with beads, felt and yarn. Also great for teaching fine motor skills and sequencing.
Homemade soaps with ocean animal squeaky toy, made using tutorial here. Also make great party favors.
These are the cutest non living turtle I’ve ever encountered and the best part is they are way too easy to make. Make cutout turtle bodies with formic sheets also called foam and recycle plastic bottle bottoms for the turtle shell, finished with buttons and thread, here.
A fun activity and game for 2 or 3 year old kids to make with clay, here.
Make and move the turtle activity here.
Walnut shells, googly eyes and paper turtle bodies to make this cute craft here.
Felt cutouts glued together to make sea turtle/ tortoise in two different ways here.
Make a fluffy plush toy following the instructions here.
Make these cute sea animals using egg carton, pom poms and buttons. Found here.
Easy craft here.
Creative tutorial here.
tutorial here.
Weave paper or ribbons together to create contrasting patterns for fish bodies with this kids craft.
Help your little princess in creating her favorite fairy tale become a reality with these 3 in 1 free printables of DIY 3D Princess Ariel, 3D flounder and, 3D Ursula.
An interactive story telling fish craft, the idea can be used to create various sea animals.
Repurpose bottle caps to create an ocean scene, project here.
A tutorial to make fish with buttons by sewing on the felt to create a decorative frame. This idea is also good for creating button fish using glue, fabric, paper and so much more.
Tutorial to make this sea animal craft.
Tutorial here.
Colorful angelfish created using craft sticks also called ice cream sticks and lolly sticks here.
Tutorial here.
Fun to create and super fun to innovate with colors, project here.
Paint based activity that involves use of puffy paint using shaving cream and colored glue to create fish craft here.
Build and play fishing game with these felt fishes and fishing rods using the instructions here.
Put your seashells collection from last visit to beach to good use into making these cute fish crafts found here.
Equally fun activity for toddlers and kindergartners that is learning based for teaching kids about alphabets found here.
Cut the water and paint with acrylic paints.
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Create this bubble wrap pattern on paper and cutout the star to make this project here.
An easy craft that can also be made with styro foam,
Cute sea craft for kids made with buttons and glue gun, here.
Fun project that involves dipping and pressing pipe cleaner made stamps to create different shapes.
Give few materials like cardboard, paint and markers to your kids with instructions from here.
tutorial here.
Craft sea animals with kids using crepe paper and colored papers like this octopus here.
Find instructions here.
Create an octopus shaped memory box by recycling empty chocolate and cookie tin and cardboard boxes, tutorial here.
tutorial here.
Make a cute octopus sea animal craft with foam ball and paper, found here.
Make this cute ocean creature with toilet paper roll and threads, found here.
Pipe cleaner and styrofoam balls cut in half makes perfect jellyfishes with googly eyes and some paint, project found here.
Tutorial here uses mediums like acrylic paint, pastel, chalk etc to create different effects on the paper.
tutorial here.
Ocean themed kids craft here.
Sea Urchins are really fascinating sea creatures. They are actually carnivorous living animals which look like plants. Kids don’t find them on beaches and sea shores, these hidden treasures live under the sea on the seabed, craft here.
Tutorial here.
Pearl bracelet in an oyster made with paper plate from the ocean floor, tutorial here.
Painted patterns that can be created using things like bubble wrap, egg carton and sponge etc here.
This project is so neat, it can also be used as a home decor instructions here.
Pipe cleaners and disposable cups makes cute ocean crabs like THESE.
Tutorial to make this craft here.
Upcycle clothespin into mermaids using foam and paint, here.
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Minion recycle projects for kids HERE.
Creative ideas to make abstract art on any surface HERE.
Activity based free printables for kids (preschoolers and kindergartners) HERE.
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