Ocean Life Theme Highlights

We had so much fun during our laid back month-long Ocean Life Theme in July. Here are a few of the things we did:

Robbie loved this sensory bin. I used 1cm gram cubes, blue foam pieces and blue & white pony beads for the "water" and "bubbles". The creatures are from our Safari Ltd. Ocean Life Toob. I also included some chenille stems (pipe cleaners) for waves and a magnifying glass for fun.


See our other sensory bins.

We used a pre-printed Ocean Life calendar I created in Photoshop and simply crossed out the days as they passed. This was a simple idea, but a big hit.


There were many hands-on crafts which provided wonderful opportunities to talk about each creature and its unique characteristics and body parts.












As each project was completed, I placed it on our Ocean Life board (simply a piece of posterboard with some stickers I picked up in the scrapbooking section of a local store). Robbie really liked seeing his crafts displayed.



He played with ocean creatures in the bath tub.


He even got a new whale pencil.

Here are some of the books we enjoyed:

• Whales by Lesley A. DuTemple
• Dolphins by Morgan Lloyd
• A Lot of Otters by Barbara Helen Berger
• Life in the Water (A Child's First Library of Learning)
• Sea Turtles at Risk by Megan McDonald
• Dolphins by Sharon Bokoske and Margaret Davidson
• One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss

You can find links to many of the things we used (and some I wish we'd used) this past month on my
Ocean Life Theme Pinterest Board.


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