Paper Bowl Jellyfish

Beach Craft

We created these beach scene's during our summer ocean unit.  The children really enjoyed making them and playing with them afterwards.  

The ocean was made from one part shaving cream to one part white glue, then I added liquid watercolor. 

The sand was glued on with white school glue.

I used cardboard for the base.

Here are step-by-step instructions:

The children first painted half the cardboard with glue using a paintbrush.

They took handfuls of sand and covered the area that had glue on it. Then shook off the extra sand. 

I let them decorate their beach with shells 

And rocks. 

They used a large spoon and cover the second half with the shaving cream/glue mixture and spread it around.

I let them pick out one crab and one sea animal for their project.  We talked about where each animal would prefer to live and why.  We talked about crabs being able to go on land and sea and they choose where their crab wanted to be.

We glued down the animals. 

Children picked out their umbrellas and towels and decided where one the beach they'd like to sit on their beach and glued those down.

Waa lah!  Insto-beach!!!

Sea Shell Collage Sailboats

These sail boats are made from a collage of natural items I mostly found around the school. We did them while we were doing an Ocean unit during the summer. The sails are made from abalone shells and have a beautiful irredesent shimmer to them. Okay, that part isn't exactly a local resource here in Tucson, but the mesquite pods and sticks are!