We hosted an end of summer beach party/ playdate that cooresponded with the ending of our ocean unit. So I let all of my kids' crafts be the decorations. Here is what my kitchen looked like. (Unfortunately, I had to take these pics with my phone because my husband had the camera at a convention, so bear with me!...I couldn't figure out how to rotate them, so some are upside down...drama!!!)
On our window, we had sharks, Rainbow Fish, a coral reef, and octopi.
The sharks were from here. We practiced cutting and our /sh/ words.
The octopus was from here. They used sequins on the bottom of the tentacles to make suction cups. Evan (2) had to glue on sequins to match the corresponding numbers 1 thru 8. Katy (4) glued on sequins to match the cooresponding number words one thru eight.
Katy made the diver. She is holding a story in which we focused on chacter and setting. In her illustration, the setting is created with marker and a photograph shows the character and action.
Again...I can't believe I had to use my phone! This was super cute with packing paper sand. The kids painted on glue and used an old spice shaker to sprinkle on real sand. We sponge painted a coral reef (in the daytime, the light shown through and made it really colorful). We taped on pipecleaner seaweed and used ocean creature window decals.
Sea Turtle facts - The sea turtles were swimming on the ceiling in a tulle "East Atlantic Current." (Thank you Finding Nemo!)
Paper towel roll sand castles. This idea is from here.
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