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Ocean and beach preschool and kindergarten activities and crafts

Learn about the ocean and its habitants with ocean and beach inspired crafts, activities, emergent reader booklets, educational games, and worksheets available on our member site.

Ocean animals books to read

What is an ocean? What do you know about the ocean?

Why is the seawater salty?

Which kind of animals live in the ocean?

Ocean Theme KidsSoup Member Site (available July 07)

Samples of some of our new ocean and beach materials we are adding to our member site.

Ocean Animals Numbers Writing	Crab Craft	Underwater Coloring Pages	Pearls Counting Folder Game
Get Lily Ready for the Beach Activity	Get Lily Ready for the Beach Cut and Paste Activity	Fish crafts	Emergent Reader Story
Jellyfish Craft	Following Directions Colors Worksheet	Octopus Craft	ABC Fish Matching Game
Beach Ocean Reading Game	Ocean Art projects	Ocean Matching Game	Under the Sea Can You Count With Me? Emergent Reader Booklet
Shadow Match Activity Game	Ocean Animal Fact Sheets	Mermaid Craft	Ocean Word Wall
We are still adding more ocean and beach activities, crafts, and other resources to our member site. Next new theme: ZOO (August 2007)

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Free ocean activities and craft ideas

What is an ocean? What do you know about the ocean? Language Activities Show a large globe and ask children to identify the oceans. Also ask them how they know that they are oceans. Point out that most of our planet is covered by water and that this huge amount of water is called oceans and seas, and they are all joined together. The oceans and seas are salty. There are five oceans: Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and the Antarctic. Smaller areas of the oceans are called seas. The largest two seas are the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. Talk about the differences between oceans, lakes, and rivers. Ocean facts: http://warrensburg.k12.mo.us/ocean/oceans.html Rhyme: We have five oceans that cover the earth, you see, Can you name them all with me? Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Antarctic make five, I can’t wait to discover the ocean. I’m ready to dive! See our ocean materials available on our member site	Pearls Worksheet
	Free Ocean Worksheets
	Underwater Coloring Page

Ocean Crafts, Activities and Games

Craft:
Ocean Bottle
You need: plastic water or pop bottles, blue or green food coloring, baby oil or vegetable oil, tiny shells, sparkles or gold glitter for sand.

Fill the water bottle 2/3 full with water and tint it with the food coloring and add oil. Fill bottle to about 1/2 inch of the rim. Add tiny shells, glitter, or other sea-related items. Glue the bottle shut and place tape around the top to seal the bottle to prevent the oily liquid from leaking out. When you tip the bottle it will look like rolling ocean waves. 

Why is the seawater salty?
Most of the salt comes from rocks on land that got washed into the oceans by the rivers.

Salty Ocean Science Activity
Discuss with children that ocean water is salty. Have two plastic containers filled with water. Show children the salt and add a large amount of the salt to one of the containers. Let children stir until the salt is dissolved. Let the children smell and taste the difference by pouring into small paper cups and use craft sticks to taste. Ask the questions: “Do they taste the same? Why not? Which one tastes like ocean water? Next place a raw egg in each container. The egg in the unsalted water should sink and the one in the salted water should float. Ask the children what they think made the egg float?

Ocean Animals Books

See also our water preschool activities and crafts ideas