Celebrating World Oceans Day on The Sunday Showcase

Today is World Oceans Day! Let’s celebrate with some ocean themed activities for kids.

This is the The Sunday Showcase – WHERE YOUR CHILD CENTERED IDEAS are the STARS of the show!

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Train Up a Child

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The Showcase Features:
(taken from previous Sunday Showcase posts)

This week I’m featuring ocean activities for kids. Use these ideas as a spring board for talking about the importance of our ocean.

 Celebrate with a jellyfish lunch. [JDaniel4sMom]

Create a jellyfish craft from a plastic jug. [JDaniel4sMom]

Read Eric Carle’s House for a Hermit Crab and play a game. [Kindergarten: Holding Hands and Sticking Together]

Make these fun and tasty looking croissant crabs. [Mummy Musings & Mayhem]

Try these crab and lobster activities. [Craftulate]

Add a movable felt crab to your ABC quiet book. [And Next Comes L]

Practice fine motor skills with this octopus craft. [Fantastic Fun and Learning]

Read The Great Shark Escape {Magic School Bus} and make a shark lapbook. [School Time Snippets]

Do some math under water. [3 Dinosaurs]

Visit an aquarium and see the ocean life up close. [A Baby on Board]

Create a small world aquarium and let the pretend play begin. [Le Baby Bakery]

Explore pretend sea life with an ocean squishy bag. [For the Love of Learning]

Take a field trip to the beach and look for shark teeth. [Life’s About Little Adventures]

Color some play dough for an invitation to create a beach scene. [Sugar Aunts]

Make a beach themed sensory box. [Buggy and Buddy]

Check out this beach printable pack available for download. [Gift of Curiosity]

Read The Snail and the Whale and create an ocean sensory bin. [Growing Book by Book]

Read books about penguins and engage in penguin small world play. [Simply Mommie]

Read and learn more about penguins. [Trullium Montessori]

Make an adorable penguin craft. [The Hands-On Homeschooler/Montessori Tidbits]

Or try this cute circle penguin craft and read A Penguin Story. [Reading Confetti]

Read and learn about whales. [Trullium Montessori]

Compare baleen whales with toothed whales. [The Usual Mayhem]

Last week, Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas featured 4 ocean themed crafts and activities for kids.

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas also shares a great list of beach and ocean books for K-2.

Check out this ocean wonders sensory bin from Train Up a Child. It sparked lots of questions about the ocean animal and habitat.

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Featured from Inspiration Laboratories:

This week we announced Gail Gibbons as June’s featured author for the Virtual Book Club for Kids. The next episode of the Science at Home video series is all about moving vehicles. I shared a listening game that’s perfect as a waiting game or a clean up helper. Since today is World Oceans Day, I’m also featuring a post from last year that explains more about it and has a list of more activities you can do with your kids.

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