Under the Sea Theme

Age Group: 3 years (with help) to 10 years

Estimated Time: 30 to 45 minutes

Messiness: High

Materials:

• A1 sheet of blue cardboard paper or 6 A4 pieces stuck together
• A few short strands of raffia
• Green pipe cleaners
• Soup mix
• White craft glue
• Cellotape
• Soup Mix Starfish (see below)
• Paper plate crab (see below)
• Jellyfish (see below)
• Shark (see below)
• Hand print rainbow fish (see below)
• Hand print octopus (see below)

Method:

1. We did the sea bed first by applying a thin layer of craft glue to the bottom of the page and sprinkling on soup mix.
2. We then stuck on our crab with craft glue.
3. The soup mix starfish was stuck on next, also with craft glue.
4. We then made our jellyfish, shark, rainbow fish and octopus.
5. Finally we cellotaped the raffia and green pipe cleaners onto the sea bed as seaweed.

Materials:

• Coloured piece of cardboard paper
• Soup mix / lentils
• Scissors
• White craft glue

Method:

1. Cut out a simple starfish shape from the coloured cardboard - as you can see, I'm no artist!!
2. Spread white craft glue down the middle of each tentacle.
3. Sprinkle the soup mix/lentils onto the glue.
4. Shake the excess soup mix/lentils off. 

Materials:

• Paper plate
• Red/orange poster paint
• Red/orange cardboard paper
• Stapler
• Scissors
• Black kokie

Method:

1. Paint the entire one side of the paper plate red or orange and set aside to dry.
2. Whilst drying, cut out 2 pincers and eyes.
3. Once the paper plate has dried, staple the paper plate in half.
4. Staple the pincers and eyes to the back of the paper plate.
5. Draw small black dots onto the eyes

Materials:

• White poster paint
• 6 equal length pieces of string
• White craft glue
• Scissors
• Coloured cardboard paper for the shark
• Googly eye

Method:

1. Firstly, we did the jellyfish.
2. We painted the jellyfish's head in white poster paint - it needed 2 layers to not be too transparent.
3. We then cut the string into 6 equal length pieces and daubed craft glue at the tops and bottoms, then stuck them down.
4. We then moved onto the shark.
5. Christopher insisted that the shark be red, so I cut out a simple shark outline out of red cardboard paper.
6. Christopher spread a thin layer of craft glue onto the back of the shark and stuck it down.
7. He then glued on the googly eye, also with craft glue.
8. I painted in teeth with the white poster paint.

Materials:

• Lots of different coloured poster paints
• 3 googly eyes
• White craft glue
• 3 small blue pom-poms
• A little hand!!

Method:

1. Firstly we did the fish. 
2. I painted each of Christopher's fingers and his thumb and palm different colours to create a rainbow fish. 
3. He then stuck on the googly eye with craft glue.
4. We used the blue pom-poms as bubbles and stuck them on with craft glue too.
5. We then moved onto the octopus.
6. I painted his hand purple to his insistence.
7. As a hand only has 5 fingers and an octopus 8 tentacles, I had to paint on 3 extras.
8. He then stuck on the googly eyes with craft glue.