Under-the-Sea Crafts Page 3

How to Make Crafts Relating to Sea Creatures and The Ocean

Seahorse Paper Plate Craft

What you will need:

Nine-Inch Paper Plates and 6-Inch Paper Plates, Water Color Paints, Chalk or Pastels and Glue

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How to Make the Seahorse Paper Plate Craft:

1. Print out the seahorse patterns and cut them out. Use them as templates to trace onto the paper plates.

2. Fold a 9-inch paper plate in half and then trace the body pattern onto the plate, and then cut it out.

3. Fold a 6-inch paper plate in half and use the head pattern to trace the head, and cut it out.

4. Place the tail pattern onto another 6-inch paper plate, trace it, and cut it out.

5. Place the fin pattern at the edge of another paper plate, trace it, and then cut it out. Cut a slit in the body pattern on the folded side where the fin should go. Insert the fin and glue it in place.

6. Glue the tail and head to the body pattern as shown in the picture. Glue the body pattern closed.

7. Paint the seahorse with water color paint. After it has dried use crayons or pastels to rub over the folds in the paper plate to make it look like the bones of the seahorse.

Folded Paper Seashells

What you will need: Bright Colored Card stock, Scissors, Scoring Tool or Something Sharp, Straight-Edge Ruler, Soft Pastels or Crayons, and Glitter Glue

How to Make the Paper Seashells:

1. Print out the seashell patterns onto card stock and cut them out.

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2. Use a scoring tool or sharp object to score all the lines on the seashell shapes.

3. Color the seashell shapes with soft pastels or crayons and then fan fold the patterns.

4. First fold all the sold lines back and then fold all the dotted lines forward.

Seahorse Pencil Holder and Place Holder Craft

What you will need:

Bright Colored Card stock, Blue Pool Noodles, Fish Stickers or Foam Sea Creature Shapes, Iridescent Confetti (Optional), Pencils, Scissors, and Colored Pencils. (If you are using colored paper use opaque colored pencils to add color to the patterns. Test out the pencils before class. If you are using white card stock, you can use any colored pencil or markers.)

How to Make the Seahorse Pencil Holders:

1. Print out the seahorse patterns and word labels onto card stock and cut them out.

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2. Cut pool noodles with a serrated knife into 5-inch lengths and then cut them in half lengthwise. Place the pool noodle pieces on a table so the flat sides are against the table and stick pencils down into the pool noodles so the pencils stand up.

3. In class have your children color the seahorses and then glue the fins onto the dotted lines as shown in the picture.

4. Have your children wrap the seahorse tails around the pencils and then place the bellies of the seahorse behind the pencils and the heads in front so that the seahorses hold onto the pencils.

5. Have your children glue the labels to the front of the pool noodles and then stick fish stickers around the labels. To finish glue iridescent confetti to the pool noodles.

Paper Plate Fish with Movable Tail and Tongue

What you will need:

Nine-Inch Paper Plates and 6-Inch Paper Plates, Water Color Paints, Glue, Hole Punch and Brass Fasteners

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How to Make the Fish Paper Plate Craft:

1. Print out the fish body, fins, and tongue patterns and cut them out. Use them as templates to trace onto paper plates.

2. Place the tongue and tail fin pattern and the small fin patterns on a 9-inch paper plate so that the fins are against the side of the plate. Trace the patterns onto the plate, and then cut them out. Color the tongue pink.

3. Place the body pattern onto a 6-inch paper plate and trace around the mouth. Cut out the mouth.

4. Punch holes in the tail and tongue pattern and the body paper plate where indicated. Attach the tail and tongue pattern to the body pattern so that the tongue shows through the mouth.

5. Glue the fins to the back of the body pattern and then glue another 6-inch paper plate to the back of the body pattern leaving the side of the paper plate with the tail open so that the tail can be moved up and down.

6. Use water color paint or markers to color the fish.