Since I am too busy unpacking from our recent move to do any crafts yet I thought I’d share some of the beach themed ideas we did last summer.

We painted sea shells.

Hailey loved doing sand art.

We made this fun fish craft.

We set up our own little beach.

You can see more beach ideas here.

We finished up our ocean theme by making this cute seahorse.

Here’s what you’ll need: construction paper, tissue paper, glue, shells, glitter, wiggly eye.

Tear the tissue paper into little pieces and then crumple it up.

While your child is busy tearing and crumpling the tissue paper, cut out a seahorse and fin from the construction paper and seaweed from the tissue paper.

Glue on the seaweed and the seahorse.

Add the wiggly eye and the tissue paper to the seahorse.

Outline the fin with glue and then sprinkle with glitter.

Our finished seahorse.

Today we made a hermit crab as part of our ocean theme.

Here’s what you’ll need: paper plate, glue, wiggly eyes, construction paper in variety of colors, tissue paper, something to mix some glue and water in, and glitter (optional).

Cut the paper plate into 4 pieces- each piece a little smaller than the one before.

Tear up your tissue paper- you can use any two colors you want.

Mix glue and water- more glue than water and brush it onto the paper plate- cover the plate with tissue paper.  You can paint the paper plates instead of using tissue paper too.

While your child is busy putting the tissue paper on, cut out a face and claws for your hermit crab and some sand for the beach.

Glue on the crab’s face, claws and eyes.

Then glue on the tissue paper covered paper plates.

After it has dried- put some dots of glue on and add some glitter.

The finished hermit crab.

As we continue along in our ocean theme we decided to make a whale today.  It was a very, very simple project that only took a few minutes to do.

Here’s what you’ll need: blue construction paper, another shade of blue construction paper cut to be the water, whale shape on gray construction paper, wiggly eye, glue and glitter.

Glue the whale onto the blue construction paper.  Then add the water and the wiggly eye.

Put some glue on to outline the ocean water and to create the water spouting up from the blowhole.  Then sprinkle some glitter on.

The finished whale.