Under the Sea Crafts for Kids
Fish Crafts
Water Bottle Fish Craft
What you will need: Plastic water bottle, tissue paper, scissors, white glue, paint brush, and colored paper.
What to do:
1. Remove the label from the water bottle.
2. Hold the bottom of the bottle with one hand and grasp the bottle about two inches up from  the bottom with the other hand. Twist the bottle like you would a balloon to make the tail fin. (See picture to the right)
3. Insert a pen or something long and skinny inside the bottle to punch out any areas that were dented in when you twisted the bottle.
4. Cut pieces of tissue paper into one-inch squares or irregular shapes.
5. Paint white glue on the bottle and stick the tissue paper squares on the glue to cover the entire bottle.
6. Cut fins from colored paper and glue to the fish to finish.
Sock Sea Creatures
What you will need:
Socks - Children's stretchy socks in a variety of colors and designs, the stretchier the better. I used socks that were 75% cotton, 22% polyester and 3% spandex from K-mart. They were on sale, 3 pairs for 50 cents, Poly-fil - for stuffing the socks, Tiny rubber bands, Eyes, Scissors, and a low temp. glue gun.
What to do:
 Sock White Whale
Stuff the a sock almost all the way to the top. Tie off the cuff with a rubber band to make the whale's tail. The top of the head is the heel of the sock. Push in the toe of the sock to make the mouth and glue it shut. Cut fins from fun foam and glue on. To finish glue on eyes.
Sock Fish
Stuff the a sock almost all the way to the top. Tie off the cuff with a rubber band to make the tail. The top of the head is the heel of the sock. Cut off the toe of the sock, take out extra stuffing, and then roll the cut end up to make the lips. Glue them closed. Cut fins from fun foam and glue on. Add spots with a magic marker, and glue on eyes.
 Sock Octopus
Cut the sock off the heel and cuff of the sock. Stuff the toe with fiber fill and then use a rubber band to tie it off. Cut slits in the top of the rest of the sock for the legs. Glue on eyes and use a magic marker to draw the nose.
See other Sock Creatures.
Paper
Bag Octopus Craft
 What
you will need: Paper lunch bags or larger,
grocery bags, paper scraps (junk mail), colored paper, large wiggly
eyes (optional), tape, glue, and paint.
What
to do:
1. Stuff a paper back with wrinkled up paper scraps.
2. Cut strips of paper about 2" wide depending on how big you are
making your octopus. Fan fold the strips and glue them together to
make longer legs.
3. Gather eight legs together and stuff the ends into the stuffed
bag. Tape the bag closed around the legs.
4. Have fun painting your octopus.
5. To finish glue on wiggly eyes or make your own eyes.
 Math Fun with X-ray Fish
Children help the X-Ray find the answer to math problems by moving the X-ray fish picture over another sheet of paper with numbers printed on it until the correct number appears in the bubble. Go to the Educational Math Crafts and Activities Page for direction to this activity.
"Searching for Treasure" Math Game
 This game can be used for any level. Just write the math problems your child is reviewing on the outside of the oysters. Hide a small treat behind one or more of the oysters. Your child then points to one of the oysters, answers the equation, and opens it up to see if he is correct and maybe find a treasure. Go to the Educational Math Crafts and Activities Page for direction to this game.
Sea
Animal Plaster Picture Frame Craft
 This 3 1/2"
x 4 1/2" frame is so easy to make. Children and adults of all ages
will love making this craft.
What
you will need: Plastic frame molds (I got mine from Michael's
Craft Store), Sea Animals mold (bought it at the same place)
The molds can be found were they sell the Fimo clay. Plaster
of Paris and water color paints, glue, and cardboard.
What
to do:
1. Mix the plaster up according to the directions.
2. Pour (or spoon in) it into the molds. Use a thicker plaster
mix for the frames this will make them stronger. Use a thinner
plaster mix to for the sea animals this will make them easier to pour.
3. After you have the plaster in the molds, pick up the molds and
tap them lightly on the table about 10 times to get the bubbles out.
4. Let the molds dry for at least an hour.
5. When the plaster is set turn the molds over and gently push on
the back of the mold to get the frames and animals out. Let them dry
completely for a couple of days.
6. Paint the frames and animals with water color paints and then let
dry. Be careful to not get to much water on the frames because it
will make them weaker and more likely to break. You may want to glue
some cardboard to the back of the frames around the edges before you
paint them to make them sturdier.
7. When the frame is completely dry glue the animals onto the frame.
Cut a piece of poster board 3 1/4" wide by 10 3/4". Fold the
poster board up 1" at the bottom and then fold it up 1 1/2" and then
fold it up 2" and then 2" again. You should have 4 1/4" left
that is not folded. Tape a favorite picture in place and then glue
the 4 1/4" side onto the back of the plaster frame. Glue the 1 1/2"
side onto the back of the frame and roll the first 1" side inside
to form a triangle shape for the frame to rest on and hold it up.
Puffer
Fish Craft
 What
you will need: Old egg cartons, construction
paper, fishing line, wiggly eyes and glue.
What
to do:
1. Cut the 2 bottom (cup) parts of an egg carton out. Colored
egg cartons are good for colorful fish.
2. Draw an outline of the cups on construction paper that
goes with the egg cup.
3. Take the outline and add a fish head outline and top
and tail fin outlines. Cut out the outlines together. (It will
look like a flat fish) If you would like a pattern (click
here) (Printing Problems?)
4. Apply glue to the egg cup rims and them glue together
with the construction paper outline in the middle.
5. Add craft eyes and draw in fin details with lines.
6. You can add a little fishing line when gluing together body
if you want to hang it after glue dries.
Comments:
This
turned out real cute. My 4 year old was crazy about
the puffy looking fish. Joan J. Ivy
My
daughter had a great time making the puffer fish into a porcupine puffer
fish by poking cut up pieces of pipe cleaners into the egg carton
body so that it looked spiny. Carolyn
No
Sew Stuffed Woven Fish Toy Craft
 What
you will need: Two different colors of felt, wiggly eyes, scissors, polyester fiber
fill, and hot melt glue
What
to do:
1. Print out the pattern. (Printing Problems?)
2. Cut the body pattern out twice from two different colors of felt
placing the dotted lines on a fold. Cut the tail pattern out
from one of the two colors.
3. To weave the fish body tuck tab 1 between the layers of tab C,
4. Tuck tab B between the layers of tab 1,
5. Tuck tab 1 between the layers of tab A. Slide tab 1 up a
little.
6. Tuck tab C between the layers of tab 2.
7. Tuck tab 2 between the layers of B
8. Tuck tab A between the layers of 2. Slide the tabs up a little.
9. Tuck tab 3 between the layers of tab C.
10. Tuck tab B between the layers of 3.
11. Tuck tab 3 between the layers of A.
12. Glue the felt together between the two fins. You may want to put
some glue between the woven felt layers.
13. Glue the tail fin to one side of the inside of the fish.
Glue around the edge of the side fins leaving an opening where the
tail fin was glued.
14. Stuff the fish with polyester fiber fill. Glue the rest
closed.
 Stuffed
Paper Sea Turtle Craft
What
you will need: Paper, paper glue, scissors,
stapler, crayons or markers, fiber fill, poster board or something
similar.
What
to do:
1. Print out the patterns for the turtle's
shell, turtle's
head, flippers and tail
and belly. (Printing Problems?)
2. Cut out the patterns and glue the flippers onto poster board with
paper glue and then cut them out again. Use the stomach and tail pattern
to trace the outline onto poster board and then cut it out.
3. Color all the body parts.
4. Cut the shell at the back, front and sides where indicated.
Fold the flaps back at the fold lines. Turn the shell over and
staple the darts closed on the solid lines. Carefully turn the shell
right side out.
5. Staple the the back and front flippers in place.
6. To assemble the head fold all the flaps back and then place glue
on flap A. Glue flap A under flap B. Place glue on flap D and glue
under flap C. Place glue on flap E and glue under flap F.
7. Fold on the dotted lines so that the two triangles at the bottom
are folded up.
8. Staple the shell onto the stomach starting at the back or tail
area. Then staple both sides and fill in all the way around the turtle.
Leave the neck area open and stuff with fiber fill.
9. Staple the head on where indicated and staple the shell to close
it up.
10. To finish fold down the flippers.
 Sea
Creature Wind Mobile Craft
What
you will need: Pipe cleaner, beads, fun
foam, fun foam sea creature cutouts (come in a package already cut),
scissors, punch, and string.
What
to do:
1. Cut out a 6" circle from a piece of fun foam. Cut in
a circular direction around the circle until you come to the middle.
Punch a hole in the top (inside of the circle) and two holes at the
bottom (outside of the circle) as shown in the picture.
2. Bend the very bottom of the pipe cleaner into a loop and then push
the top of the pipe cleaner through the two holes at the bottom.
3. Punch two holes in your fun foam sea creature one on top of the
other and feed the pipe cleaner through the holes. (Make sure
the sea creature is not upside down.)
4. Now string on some pretty beads.
5. When you have all the beads on the pipe cleaner you want put the
pipe cleaner through the other hole of the cut fun foam.
7. Bend this end of the pipe cleaner in a loop and tie a string to
hang the mobile to the loop.
8. Tie a string to the bottom loop of the mobile and string some beads
onto the string.
9. Tie a knot at the bottom to finish.
Fish
in Water Sponge Painting Craft
 What
you will need: Sponges, Sponge rollers
with wave pattern (made by Plaid found in craft stores), paint, different
colors of paint, and light blue construction paper
What
to do:
 1. Cut fish shapes out of sponges or use fish shaped
sponges.
2. Squeeze dark blue paint onto a foam plate. Show children
how to roll the sponge back and forth to pick up the paint and then
roll it back and forth onto the blue construction paper to make waves.
3. Squeeze different colors of paint onto separate foam plates.
Have at least one sponge fish per plate. Have the children
press the sponges filled with paint onto their picture.
4.
You can also use an eraser on the end of a pencil dipped in
paint to make bubbles. We also used jumbo dotters (Made by Plaid
and found at craft stores) of different shapes to make plants at the
bottom of the sea.
Fish
in a Fish Bowl Craft
 What
you will need: Construction paper and poster board, sandwich size
resealable bag, fish tank gravel, Easter grass, staples, glue,
different colors of paper to cut fish from.
What
to do:
1. Print out the fish bowl pattern and cut out two fish bowls shapes from construction paper and two from poster board. (Printing Problems?)
2. Staple a plastic bag around the edge of the cut out construction
paper fish bowls on all sides except the top. Have the children put
a handful of gravel, some Easter grass, and some fish that they drew
and cut out inside the bag. Have them arrange the fish the way they want.
3. Seal the bag and staple it to the paper. It should be stapled all
the way around near the edge of the cut out.
4. Now glue the poster board fish bowls on top of the construction
paper fish bowls to cover up the staples.
Changeable
Fish in Water Picture
 Danielle loved this project so much that she had me make a seashore all the way around the edge of the picture. She picked out turtles, and
birds, and frogs to put on the shore. She even had one of the
shore birds standing up.
What
you will need: Two pieces of blue construction paper, pictures
of fish, glue, crayons or markers, scissors with a wave pattern, scissors,
glue.
What to do:
1. To make the water fold one paper in half. Cut slits about
3/4 of an inch apart using the wave pattern scissors down the length
of the paper starting at the fold. Do not cut all the way to
the end. When you open up the paper you should have slits across
the length of the paper all in a row. Now glue the paper to just another
piece of blue paper around the edges. The children should be able
to stick the fish and boat inside the slits.
2. Print out the sea creature pictures (Large file or small file). Have your children color the pictures and cut them out. If
you have children that can draw fairly well, have them draw their
own fish and boat. For younger children you may want to have
the fish and boat pictures already cut out. Just have them
color the pictures and place them in the waves. (Printing Problems?)
Comments:
(I thought
that this was a cute little thing for my children to do. I thought
that this would look more life like if you glued some sand (gathered
from a beach or local park) to the bottom of the page and perhaps
some tiny seashells you can purchase or find at the beach. Thank
you for all your great ideas Jennifer
 Sea Shell Macaroni Crab
This cute little crab was made from sea shell macaroni and
pipe cleaners.
What you will need: Sea shell macaroni, pipe cleaners, red paint, glue gun, and tiny sea shells.
What to do:
1. Paint the macaroni red and let it dry.
2. Cut pipe cleaners in half and glue to the under side of the shell.
3. Glue two tiny sea shells to the two front legs for claws.
4. To finish, glue the eyes to the shell.
5. Make a crab habitat by decorating
a small heavy duty paper plate with paint and colored sand or (colored
salt) or maybe some small sea shells or rocks or aquarium rocks.
Under the Sea Crafts
on other Pages
  1. Sea
shell paperweight Craft
2. Stuffed
fish, Sea Stars and Sea Horse Craft
3. Fish
Puppet Craft
4. Pop
Bottle Goldfish Craft
5. L'oreal
Goldfish Craft
6. No
Mess Sand Art Craft
7. Fish
in Water Paper Plate Craft
8. Paper
Plate Star Fish Craft
9. Plastic
Milk Jug Whale Craft
 You
can find more paper crafts on The
Resource Room. The
Resource Room is designed specifically for Sunday School teachers
and Christian home school parents. We have Bible lessons for
preschool and primary age children. Each lesson comes with activity
and craft ideas to reinforce the lesson.
Under the See Crafts
Ideas on Other Web Sites:
 Ocean
Diorama from Enchanted Learning.com - Just print out the patterns of the whales
and tie them inside a box decorated to look like the sea.
Artist's Helping Kids - Has lots of links to site with Ocean Crafts, Aquatic Crafts, and Sea Life.
Making Friends.com - Has fishing crafts, under the sea crafts, sea life creatures, fish crafts and even a mermaid paper doll. I must see page!
Everything Preschool - Has lots of great ideas, but no pictures.
Kaboose.com - has Under the Sea printable coloring sheets.
Crayoloa - Make an under the sea diorama and sea creatures from Model magic.
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