Shark Craft

This shark craft doesn’t take very long to do- it took a while to draw the shark (Thanks Mom!) but actually doing the project only took a few minutes.

Here’s what you’ll need: blue construction paper, shark drawing cut out, wiggly eye, 2 small black ovals, several small white triangles and glue.

Glue the shark onto the blue construction paper.

Glue the 2 black ovals on for the sharks nose and add a wiggly eye.  Then put several white triangles in his mouth for the teeth.  Talk about the shapes and colors of the items your child is gluing on.

Hailey’s finished shark.

Cute Little Crab

As we continue our ocean theme we learned about crabs today and made a crab.  It turned out really cute.

Here’s what you’ll need: construction paper, tissue paper, glue, wiggly eyes, 2 paper bowls and something to brush the glue on with.

Hailey did a great job tearing up the red tissue paper.

In one bowl mix a little bit of water in with some glue and brush it onto the bottom and sides of the other bowl.

Cover the bottom and sides of the bowl with red tissue paper.  You can also do this with paint instead of tissue paper if you’d like to.

While Hailey was busy covering her bowl with tissue paper I cut out a mouth and some legs.  There are 8 regular legs and 2 legs with claws.  I also cut out some seaweed from the green tissue paper which I forgot to take a picture of.

Glue on the seaweed.

Add the legs.

Turn the bowl covered in tissue paper right side up and put glue all over the rim.

Add eyes and a mouth and you have your finished crab.  (Hailey used so much glue that when I took this picture 5 hours after we made the crab- the glue was still wet!)

Starfish

Hailey is loving our ocean theme.  We found a great craft book (Crafty Kids: Fun Projects for You and Your Toddler by Rosie Hankin) that has several ocean crafts in it to do.  So, Hailey decided that she wanted to make a starfish today.

 Here’s what you’ll need: construction paper for the background, construction paper cut into the shape of water, the shape of a starfish, a mouth shaped paper, 2 wiggly eyes, stars, tissue paper cut to look like seaweed, glue and glitter.

Glue on the water and the seaweed.

Add the starfish.

 Add some eyes to the starfish and glue on some star shapes.  Add some glitter to the extra glue on the starfish.

The finished starfish.

Paper Plate Turtle

In continuing with our ocean theme we learned about turtles.  I explained how turtles lay their eggs on the beach and then when the baby turtles hatch they go into the ocean.  Then we made a very easy paper plate turtle.

Here’s what you’ll need: paper plate, glue, green construction paper, wiggly eyes.

Tear the construction paper into little pieces.  This helps to strengthen the muscles in the hand that are necessary for the control needed to learn how to write.

Glue the little pieces of paper onto the paper plate.  Once the plate was all covered in construction paper we added a head and legs.

The finished turtle.