Ocean Animals and St. Patrick's Day (2/18-3/18)
We have been busy the last few weeks! Here is what we've done as we've studied Ocean Animals and St. Patrick's Day. Ocean Animal Activities The kids explored a variety of shells, sand dollars, and starfish with magnifying glasses and tweezers. The kids painted ocean animal pictures with paint dot markers. We made necklaces with the kids' favorite shells. We made our own soft playdoh and played with it, ocean animal cookie cutters, and plastic ocean animals and plants. The kids decorated wooden ocean animals and cardboard ocean animals. The kids played with plastic ocean animals in sensory sand. We put together a giant ocean puzzle (twice!). St. Patrick's Day Activities We did rainbow "smoosh painting"--we put paint on the back of a paper plate, smooshed another paper plate against it, and pressed it onto paper. We also did rainbow finger-painting. We made puff paint (shaving cream and glue) and painted a four leaf clover with it. We made a bar graph wi...