This aquatic ocean art project for children is sure to be a huge hit in your classroom! Pair this fantastic beach side theme with your ocean animals unit study. Best of all this project is simple, and great for students of all ages. Students will build a variety of...
Create this Simple Watercolor & Glue Jellyfish with your art students today! With our free step-by-step art tutorial, this stunning jellyfish can be created by students and adults of all ages and abilities. You'll be amazed at how simple and easy this jellyfish watercolor art project is, and at...
Recently I was introduced to a new form of textured painting called salt painting. Â Basically, you take glue cover it with salt, then drop watercolors on top to absorb the color. Â Well, can I just say, "Wowza!" Â This is such a fun technique and it creates beautiful art work that...
Learning about the amazing creatures that are found in our world's oceans can be a fascinating experience for children. The sheer multitude of unique shapes, forms and abilities of sea animals make them a perfect inspiration for art. Introduce children to various art workd Materials: Printing Plates (or styrafoam meat tray) Paint (inking...
These spiky Sea Urchin creatures are lots of fun, and take minimal supplies to create. Just be careful because they really are spiky! They look wonderful in Ocean dioramas. Materials: Self Hardening Clay Toothpicks Suggest Resources for a Unit Study: Art Project Tutorial: Step 1 Roll up your modeling clay into a ball. Tap the bottom gently so...
Children can make this interactive sea creature fan book to remember all of their favorite ocean animals! Materials: Black Construction Paper Brad Oil Pastels Scissors or Circle Punch tool Suggest Resources for a Unit Study: Art Project Tutorial: Step 1 Cut out five circles from your black construction paper. We use a specialcutting tool that makes circles. (Scrapbooking aisle) Step...
These starfish are a blast to make and they turn out very colorful and full of texture. You could expand make Starfish crayon rubbings as well. Materials: Sandpaper Construction Paper Glue Art Project Tutorial: Step 1 Cut a small piece of sandpaper for each child and instruct them to color it in with various colors of oil...
Who doesn't love a beautiful ocean sunset? With this art project you can introduce your children to a variety of art techniques. Children draw and ink their own ocean scene, then use oil pastels and various blending techniques to fill their project with color. You can use this lesson to...
These beautiful seahorses are adapted from an amazing torn paper collage I found at Torn Paper Paintings by Wanda Edwards.  I thought it might be fun to recreate this seahorse in a way that children could color and cut with ease so I drew a template based on this seahorse and decided...
These ocean craft and art projects for kids are fantastic when paired alongside some hands-on learning. Children love to see all the amazing creatures that God has placed in the sea. Be sure to enhance your Ocean unit studies with a fun trip to a local aquarium, or natural tide...
Today I wanted to THANK all of our Crafty Classroom subscribers by offering a special freebie! This is a HUGE set of Ocean Animal Notebooking PagesOver 30 different creatures, each with their own facts sheet and coloring page. About this set:This set includes printable notebooking pages and coloring pages for different animals...
Yes, I realize that were in the middle of Winter. But all the more reason, I say! Sometimes we can go a bit stir crazy spending so much time indoors, playing the same games, finishing up the same puzzles, and coloring the same coloring books. Sometimes it's fun just to have a completely NEW activity...
