Underwater Ocean Scenes with Se7en Crafty Ideas…

This week there were so many ocean goodies on our calendar and hood #4 has been looking at fish for school. So we went over to the aquarium website and decided that we would make our own aquarium for this weeks craft task.

So here you go: Se7en crafty ideas that you can use for any theme, we just happened to be having an underwater week.

• Idea 1: Marble Painting and Deep Sea Tanks This is great fun and you can use paper and paints or fabric and fabric paints (we have made fun bandana’s doing this).

Let’s Meet the Players:



You will need an old box, paint in cups – we used sea colors, a couple of marbles and spoons.

And Play The Game:

Step 1: Pop your paper into the box and your marbles into the paints.



Step 2: Fish your marbles out of the paint.



Step 3: And drop them into the box.

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Step 4: Shake rattle and roll:



Step 5: You are done and we had a couple of deep sea tanks to fill. I love the way no two are ever the same!!!



• Idea 2: Bright Plasticine Shapes and A Rock Pool

  Let’s Meet The Players:

  

  Plasticine is not exactly play do, but I am sure you could use play do. Plasticine is an oil based modeling clay that has a stiffer texture than play do and it is really cheap in our supermarkets.

  And Play The Game:

  Step 1: Split the plasticine into brightly colored clusters.

  

  Step 2: Roll them into balls.

  

  Step 3: Flatten your balls with a rolling pin – or we used jars.

  

  Step 4: Use cookie cutters to cut out your shapes, we used stars for starfish.

  

  Step 5: Lift them off the surface carefully with a lifter.

  

  Step 6: And we put our rock pool together… using little stones from the scratch patch. And there is not enough white glue in the world for some kids!!! But never fear when the glue dries your starfish will be bright and shiny.

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Step 7: And you are done… with the rock pool.


• Idea 3: Tissue Paper and A Kelp Forest

  Let’s Meet The Players:

  

  Tissue paper, colored feathers and party poppers were the name of this game.

  Let’s Play The Game:

  Step 1: Snip the tissue paper to make some feathery kelp.

  

  Step 2: Stick and Glue.

  

  Step 3: And your Kelp Forest is done!

  

• Idea 4: Foil Sharks

  Let’s Meet the Players:

  

  We used some foil trays and a ball point pen, and newspaper to press on.

  Play the Game:

  Step 1: Pop the newspaper under the foil so that you get really strong lines drawing with the ballpoint pen.

  

  Step 2: Cut your sharks out with kitchen scissors and your shark tank is good to go!

  

• Idea 5: Colored Chalks on Black Paper and Jelly Fish Corner

  Let’s Meet The Players:

  

  A little trick for drawing with colored chalks is to dip your chalks in sugar water while you are drawing. The colors don’t fade and go powdery when they dry, the colors stay bright and funky even after a while.

  Let’s Play the Game:

  Step 1: Draw your jelly fish on dark paper and cut them out making those tentacles all feathery.

  

  Step 2: Your Jelly Fish Corner is done!

  

• Idea 6: Pipe Cleaner Beads and a Coral Reef

  Let’s Meet the Players:

  

  And Play the Game:

  Step 1: Thread some beads onto your pipe cleaner.

  

  Step 2: Bend the pipe cleaner into a fish shape and twist the tail round a few times so that your fish stays together. And add some more beads to the tail.

  

  Step 3: And your coral reef is done!

  

• Idea 7: Crayons and Ink for a Turtle Tank

  Let’s Meet The Players:

  

  We used wax crayons and food coloring as ink.

  And Play the Game:

  Step 1: Draw your turtles and decorate the shells with bright wax crayons.

  

  Step 2: Paint in your turtles with inks.

  

  Step 3: Cut your turtles out when they are dry and stick them down. Your turtle tank is done.

  

That’s enough already! If you are looking for more ocean craft ideas have a look at our Shark Craft, Surf Boards or our Underwater Party.