Ocean Preschool Theme
Dive under the sea to learn about the amazing animals that live in the ocean from fish to whales, to octopus, sharks, and more! Study oceans with your preschooler using this Ocean Preschool Theme! Your kids will love these engaging ocean activities, free ocean printables, and ocean crafts in this preschool ocean theme. This fun ocean ideas are perfect for pre-k, toddler, kindergarten, and first grade students too.
Ocean Preschool Theme
Little kids love learning about the ocean! Perhaps it’s because the beach and water are so fascinating. And it’s fun to see how different ocean animals are from familiar land animals. Either way, children have
a natural interest and curiosity which makes oceans a great topic to include as a weekly theme. Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will love all these clever resources to make your own
ocean preschool theme.
Use these fun, free, and delightful ideas for making your ocean lesson plan for preschool or toddlers and pre k.
Preschool Ocean Theme
Use one of these two options for using books in your ocean theme:
- Read a different book each day of the week, Monday through Friday.
- Or read your favorite book each of the week. Don’t worry about boring your kids as they love repetition so don’t worry about boring them!
Pick one or all of these 5 excellent books to read with your preschoolers.
Ocean Crafts for Preschoolers
- Turn a cupcake liner into an octopus
- Make a light up reef craft
- Create a cute ocean craft
- Here’s a recycled fish craft
- Try this easy origami whale
- Check out this easy sea turtle craft
- Make a colorful jellyfish
- Put together a crab from a cupcake liner
- Save your kids’ handprints with this fun fish craft
- Give this easy sea turtle craft a try
- Make an egg carton floating whale
- Try a watercolor and crayon ocean craft
Preschool Ocean Math Activities
- Play this printable ocean comparing and matching game
- Make a counting ocean sticky wall
- Use Legos with these ocean-themed counting worksheets
- Find, count, and create a bar graph with this ocean objects printable
- Print these ocean animals counting pages
- Count the fish with counting clip cards
Preschool Ocean Literacy Activities
- Improve your kid’s visual discrimination with ocean clip cards
- Make an ocean pop-up book for kids
- Practice writing with ocean letter tracing sheets
- Make a turtle corner bookmark
Ocean Activities for Preschoolers
- Make the layers of the ocean with this fun soap project for kids
- Enjoy sensory play with ocean moon dough
- Create an ocean habitat
- Make some ocean play dough
- Create some ocean thumbprint animals
- Check out this easy ocean art project for preschoolers
- Do an ocean life experiment
- Learn about the turtle life cycle with small world play
- Make a beach-themed sensory bin
- Complete a chalk pastel jellyfish art project
- Put together a mason jar aquarium
- Make ocean slime for your kids
Ocean Printables for Preschoolers
Looking for some fun, free ocean printables for preschooler? Check these out:
- Ocean Worksheets
- Sea Drawing Prompts
- Sea Creature Stick Puppets
- Gathering: Oceans and Seas Placemats
- Learn All About the Oceans {World Map Puzzles}
- Ocean Animals Memory Cards
- Ocean Zones Worksheets
- Ocean Explorers: An Ocean Unit Study
- Ocean Animals Lesson
Ocean Activities for Kids
Looking for more ocean activities for kids? You will love these clever, free resources and ideas:
- Ocean Color by Number Worksheets
- Free Printable Ocean Coloring Pages
- Ocean Simple Coloring Pages
- Pearl Color Matching activity
- Try this Watercolor and Crayon Ocean Craft
- Ocean Printable Count & Trace for prek / k
- Cupcake Liner Octopus Craft
- O is for Ocean Weekly Theme for Prek / K
- Tons of ideas for a weeks worth of fun learning with an Ocean Theme
- Octopus Color Matching Craft
- 50 Amazing Ocean Crafts for Kids
Learn all about Ocean Animals for Kids with this 250+ page unit filled with hands on science experiments and worksheets.
