Looking for Ocean Animal Activities for kids? Grab these free printable ocean animal cards to use as a memory game for preschoolers.
Feed the shark is a free printable math game for toddlers and preschoolers. Learn to count and read numerals with this summer themed activity.
Here's a set of Ocean/Beach picture word cards that can go with an Ocean Theme Unit. This set includes 31 cards for the following words: fish, crab,
I am so excited to begin sharing preschool lessons with you! So many of you joined my little family through our Toddler School lessons over the past two years, and I can’t wait to see where this preschool journey takes us. I watched my son grow in his love of learning, develop fine motor skills, learn the alphabet, and learn to count to 10. As we begin this new preschool adventure, I will be creating lessons that build on the skills we have already learned in new and exciting ways! I hope you enjoy beginning this journey with us!
Grab your copy of these Sea Animal Playdough Mats and include them in your list of summer activities for kids. A free printable for kids
Pinay Homeschooler is a blog that shares homeschool and afterschool activity of kids from babies to elementary level.
An educational website dedicated to early childhood education and making learning fun! This post features a free Under the Sea Graph activity!
Is your little one fascinated by the sea and its creatures? I can help! I've recently put together an easy preschool ocean unit study for our homeschool.
This ocean themed learning activity book will keep early learners busy and engaged with so many fun hands on learning activities. Use this as morning work in the home or early childhood classroom, take it along with you when you travel or go to a restaurant or doctors appointment, or use it as part of your homeschool, preschool, or kindergarten classroom curriculum. The great thing about this binder is that you can easily differentiate the activities for children of all ages and can choose to use these activities in many different ways to meet the needs of all children and learning environments. SKILL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED: ★Label the Shark (Labeling and Vocabulary) ★Bubble Letters (Letter Identification and Writing) ★Seashell 10 Frames (Numbers, Counting, Ten Frames) ★Crab Shapes (Shape Identification and Matching) ★Seashell Color Match (Colors & Color Words Matching) ★School of Fish Counting (Numbers & Counting) ★Shark Teeth Patterns (Patterns) ★Whale Rhymes (Rhyming Words) ★Jellyfish Tentacle Trace (Prewriting/Tracing Practice) ★Animal Sort (Sorting, Classification, Categories) ★★THIS IS AN INSTANT DOWNLOAD ONLY★★ CHECK OUT ALL OUR OTHER BUSY BINDER PRODUCTS IN OUR SHOP: https://www.etsy.com/shop/LetsPlayLearnGrow?section_id=28232623
Check out my round up of my favorite ocean centers and activities designed for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students.
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One of the best things about early learners is they soak up information so fast. It's a beautiful thing. Number recognition, number sense, and counting are
Explore the layers of the ocean with this easy but fun activity and learn more about the ocean and its animals! Free printable resources available here!
These Free Printable Ocean Directed Drawing for Kids worksheets are perfect for practicing fine motor skills and so much more! Don't forget to add them to your next ocean preschool theme! I'm so excited to
Yes, you CAN freeze shaving cream! Set up this fun sensory ocean play in minutes.
If you're planning an ocean preschool theme, these 20+ free preschool ocean printables are a fantastic way to add some low-prep, hands-on learning to your lesson plans. These free printable activities cover literacy, math, and pre-writing fine motor skills. These preschool ocean printables will help your preschoolers learn literacy concepts such as letter recognition, math concepts such as counting, and they'll help them practice fine motor skills for writing.
Explore the wonders of the ocean with these math and literacy activities that provide hands-on learning through play for our preschoolers!
Rescue Mission Toddler Activities is a round up of all the best rescue activities for toddlers. From rescuing musical instruments, nature and more!
Check out these Free Preschool Beach Printables and Activities! Build fine motor skills with a fun beach theme!
Play and Learn with this amazing Ocean Themed Preschool Unit. Children will get to learn math, literacy, colors, patterns, counting and more.
Epipelagic Zone [Sunlight] This zone has the depth of about 200 meters (656 feet) below the ocean surface. Microscopic plants called phytoplanktons are present in this zone. Sunlight penetrates thi…
Kids can learn about the five ocean zones and the sea animals that live in each layer with this creative science habitat project and underwater world!
Learn about Japan for Kids with this printable book to read, color, and learn about Mt Fiji, charming gardens, and sushi without leaving home!
Learn about the 5 layers of an ocean (also called ocean zones) with your child using this hands-on activity with materials already in your pantry!
Let's talk the letter X for a moment, shall we? Because we all know, it is not the most utilized letter in the alphabet. In fact, sometimes, this poor letter seems to be downright ignored. But you can't blame folks. I mean, X usually gets put at the end of words, or somewhere in the middle. So finding activities to work with it can be tricky. This is EXACTLY why Glimmercat Education decided to offer a packet full of ideas and activities for free. Not only do we have crafts related to the letter X (an X-ray craft, an xylophone, the ever popular X-ray fish, and creating your very own boX), but we also include a fun Dot-to-Dot, an "X marks the spot" color by letter treasure map, and lesson plans if you wish to try these activities out in a Letter of the Week styled program. We also recommend some lovely picture books, "Christina Katerina and the Box" by Patricia Lee Gauch and "Not a Box" by Antoinette Portis. But enough talk! Let's explore some of the pages we include in this fun pdf packet that is downloadable for free right downloadable for free right HERE We try to introduce every one of our new letters with a picture that tells a story to illustrate the sound. This is our introductory letter card that tells the story for X: With this picture, we introduce the letter X, the sound of X and X-rays all at the same time! We pretend that our friendly character Glimmercat discovers an X-Ray machine and when the machine takes her X-ray (Xxxx!) she here's the X sound (Xxxx!). Of course, it is super important to put a lot of fun emphasis on the Xxxx! when you say it. Then, we explore the letter X through flash cards, or this fun Matching Game... And with this X-citing introduction to a variety of words containing the letter X, we can begin some of the delightful letter X crafts, like the Xylophone. When we first released this post, the top image looked like this: But we upgraded a few things for the packet. This is our new Xylophone Craft: So although, I love the Xylophone Craft that we did before, using popsicle sticks and colored foam, you can't exactly print it out. I'm still going to leave these photos here, because I think if you can do this craft with the foam, it was a lot of fun for my kiddos. It was a great craft for discussing colors, different sizes, "longest" and "shortest", and putting things in order, small to large. Especially after they watched this video of this little girl rocking out on her xylophone like a boss: Isn't that awesome? So, for the classic X-ray craft, last time we traced little hands on wax paper and then used hot glue to recreate the "bones". I wielded the glue gun, but after the glue cooled, the kids were able to peel their "bones" right off and then glue it to the black paper. I still love the idea above, and would recommend it, but for an easily printable classroom craft, we created a unique and fun X-ray Craft, here: Now, you can use a photo of your child, like I did here: Or your child can draw in the face and then add the small Q-tip pieces and the little heart. Then, there was our X-ray fish that we made last time using glue and food dye to color their insides. Here was the problem we ran into with this one: it took so long for the glue to dry in the air-tight baggy that it was a tricky craft to complete in one day. Which isn't always practical. But they turned out so cool! The "bones" were just white foam cutouts (like the foam squares we used in the xylophone, but white instead. We tucked our fishy bones inside the sealing plastic bag, too. The finished product, with googly eyes was very fun and the kids were very happy with their X-ray Tetra fish. So, I figured, maybe we could create something similar as a printable. Here's what we made: Since it is just paper, we didn't add colored glue to the inside of the baggies. We glued the fishy skeleton inside the baggie, and added the other parts to the outside with glue. And we discovered such a fun book for our Reading Literacy Page! Now, the letter X being what it is, there aren't a whole lot of children's books that begin with X. But, there are some useful words that include x in them, and so we made the most of the word "Box" and focused on the X at the end of the word. And thinking in this direction, we snagged this amazing book called "Christina Katerina and the Box". This is the story we utilized for our Reading Literacy activity: AND for our last craft, my son created a Box of his own with our printable Box and decorated it all himself. Because that's what boxes are really for, as every child knows, especially Christina Katerina. For a lot more X activities, both printables, reading literacy activities, flash cards and a Letter X Matching Game, all FREE FOR DOWNLOAD HERE : For the other alphabet letter of the week packets, we offer the following blog links with crafts included: Letter of the Week for A Letter of the Week for B Letter of the Week for C Letter of the Week for D Letter of the Week for E Letter of the Week for F Letter of the Week for G Letter of the Week for H Letter of the Week for I Letter of the Week for J Letter of the Week for K Letter of the Week for L Letter of the Week for M Letter of the Week for N Letter of the Week for O Letter of the Week for P Letter of the Week for Q Letter of the Week for R Letter of the Week for S Letter of the Week for T Letter of the Week for U Letter of the Week for V Letter of the Week for W Letter of the Week for X Letter of the Week for Y Letter of the Week for Z
**There seems to be a popular Ocean pin circulating on Pinterest that is mis-directing people to this post! If that's why you're here, this is the link to the Cape May County Library that you should be landing on! If not, enjoy the pie flannel board set below :) Yum :) I saw some pie ideas on Jen in the Library and made my own version. Thought it would also be cute to have an owl hide under some of that sweet deliciousness--the result is below: Here are the poems/songs we used with these. The Four Pieces of Yummy Pie I made up based on the famous 3 Green and Speckled Frogs, though I may have been inspired by others that I've forgotten. If so, let me know and I'll credit you! Anyway, it can be used with the cream-topped pies above, or the pumpkin pies below. Five Pumpkin Pies in the Bakery Shop Chant or sing to the tune of Five Little Ducks Credit: Melissa Depper Five pumpkin pies in the bakery shop. Looking pretty yummy with that whipped cream on top! Along comes ___ with a dollar to pay. S/he buys a sweet one and takes it away. (gobble gobble slobber yum etc.) Four Pumpkin Pies Chant or sing to the tune of 3 green speckled frogs tune. Four pans of pumpkin pie Sat on a shelf so high Looking so sweet with cream on top (oh, yeah) _______ came and ate one pie (use a puppet, or with a small group and gentle kids, kids can come take one) Yum yum and my oh my! Now there are three more pumpkin pies (yum, yum). Continue till there are none left! I try not to get trapped by themes--so these will be used throughout the year. But pumpkin pie does hold a special place in my childhood holiday memories, so I'm sure I'll use it even more at that time of year :) Though I posted this early, I'm including it in the January 8th Flannel Friday Roundup. This week's Flannel Friday is being hosted by Mollie at What Happens in Storytime. Like what you see? Sign up for my newsletter to get video and shop updates, along with free song strips in your first email: Or find all my sets and patterns right here:
Explore various animal habitats with these activities, diorama crafts & project ideas for kids in preschool, kindergarten, 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade!
Do this simple salt water experiment to teach kids about the respective density of salt water and fresh water. It's a fantastic kitchen science experiment that works for an ocean unit or a density science lesson. The perfect STEM activity for kids to use a controlled variable and works great as a science fair project!
Did you see this last week on Mess for Less? I was honored to be a guest writer for that super cute blog! If you didn't see it, here it is a...
Who doesn’t love watching baby sea otters holding hands, playing, and using each other’s tummies as rafts? Sea otters, which live in northern coastal areas of the Pacific Ocean, are iconically adorable animals, their charm makes them great mascots for environmental protection efforts, and their importance to their local ecosystems cannot be understated.
Find out why seagrasses are just as important as coral reefs and rain forests
These shark science experiments are perfect for your kids' science week learning. Not only will they have cool ocean science experiments, but fun learning too!
Introduce kids to coastal erosion with this simple beach erosion project. Build a simple model of the beach, and learn with play.
This salt and ice experiment encourages kids to do some critical thinking. A fun penguin themed STEM activity for kids using salt and water to melt ice. Playing with ice is such a fun way to engage in science fun with kids. Ice forms when a water freezes
Have you played with these when you were a kid? We did - a lot! But this shark cootie catcher is just a bit more awesome than your regular fortune teller! Folding paper is an
Undersea can be an excellent theme for room decorations. If you are somebody who loves the oceans and seas, then this is the ultimate under the sea decoration theme for you.
This fall, we've had some fun with the higher reading group doing some non-fiction animal activities. These have been in a pile to share, so we apologize. :) We don't have any pictures, but we will do our best to share. We started with learning about sharks while we were learning the 'ar' sound. Sharks seem to be one of those things that really just grab the kiddos attention. They couldn't get enough of reading about sharks, looking at pictures of real sharks, and even watching a fun video. We began by reading several books about sharks, and made a chart of all of the cool and interesting facts that we learned. Next we completed this shark activity. We then read this little sheet that the kids loved, since it had such great pictures. They also loved that the got to take home a little mini-poster to teach their families about sharks. We read over this several times, and by the end, the kids were able to read most of it by themselves. (Keep in mind this is the high reading group, so we have several reading at a second grade level.) Last we each did a shark report to really share what we had learned about sharks. These turned out sooo cute, I wish I would have remembered to photograph them. Next time! {Also, I apologize that the jpeg cuts off the side of the picture. Drives me all kinds of crazy! The actual document is ok though.} Click below for copies of all of these for yourself! SHARK ACTIVITIES Later on, we learned all about whales when we learned the 'wh' sound. This came right after the sharks, which the kids loved. It was really fun to compare and contrast whales and sharks, and to discuss the similarities between the two. We followed the same basic pattern by starting with reading several books about whales. We also found some really great videos on you tube. HERE is a great one of whales breaching. Of course there were few if any of our kids who had seen this, so it was really fun to watch the kids watching them. We also watched a great video of Beluga whales singing, which was another really exciting idea for the first graders. Unfortunately when I went to link it, it had been removed. But I recommend sharing something similar if you're learning about whales. We then completed this whale activity. {Sorry, it doesn't seem to want to rotate for me. } The kids loved this whale text that we read together, and loved reading about different kinds of whales, and looking at their different pictures online as well. At the end of our whale activities, we also created whale reports. We had a great bulletin board of our reports up that turned out so cute! As mentioned before, we wrapped up by comparing and contrasting whales and sharks, and made this Venn diagram. Make sure to grab copies for yourself! WHALE ACTIVITIES WHALE & SHARK VENN DIAGRAM We hope you find some of these useful! Tune in later this week for some bat and owl activities. Have a great night! Some clipart courtesy of Scrappin' Doodles.
