Ocean Theme

Do you teach an ocean theme? This set is packed full of fun, hands-on activities that teach colors, letters, counting and other important preschool skills. Children get to play with manipulatives while they learn.

Ocean preschool centers are a great way to get kids working on math and literacy while learning about the planet.

Ocean worksheets for preschool are a fun way to get some extra tracing, scissors, and gluing practice in.

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• Rainbow Ocean Animal Figures
• Colorful Plastic Starfish
• Mini Seashells
  

• Playdough
• Plastic Magnetic Letters

Jellyfish Tentacles Counting

Playdough is a favorite with my kiddos. For this fun activity, you can roll out the correct number of tentacles and place them under the jellyfish.

Divers I Spy Fish Counting

Pretend to be a diver. What can you see? Count the sea creatures listed on each card into the ocean scene.

Shell Count and Collect

My kiddos love playing with seashells. You can use traditional shells or something a bit different like these cute, colored starfish manipulatives.

Spin & Count Earth Day Cleanup Game

I found the cutest little fish mini erasers this week, and we used them for counting sea creatures into our ocean. You could also use buttons or other fun ocean themed manipulatives.

Whale Spout Measurement

Non-standard measurement is a very early math skill. Here the children are measuring how high with our favorite snap cubes.

Shell Counting 10 Frames

10 Frames are an amazing tool to help children understand counting and gives them a visual while working with numbers.

Starfish Letter Bingo

There are so many fun ways to play with these starfish letter cards. You can do a Go Fish style game, memory, or lay them out for a bingo game or cover them with a matching toy letter.

Ocean Beginning Sounds

Learning to recognize beginning sounds is a great preschool/kindergarten skill. For this activity, children can choose sea creatures and then find their beginning letter sound to place next to it.

Sand Toys Letter Matching

Have you tried a sand sensory bin in the summer? These are a fun addition to that. Children can match the buckets and shovels, and if you have these cool clips, the children can even link them together. The fine motor practice is a great bonus.

Starfish Letter Matching

Find a clothespins that has the matching letter. This is great for fine motor skills as well as the letter matching.

Seashell Sight Words

For more fun with sand, try writing your sight words in them. You can then line the words with shells.

Ocean Word Stripes

Use the ocean words to practice tracing and writing the words on a dry erase board or paper.

Ocean Shells Color Sorting

Color sorting is a lot of fun. In this seashell themed game children can sort colored shells, beads, blocks, Legos or whatever loose parts you have lying around onto the shells.

Fish Playdough Shapes

This is one of our all time favorite shapes activities. We make the shapes out of playdough. You could also line the shapes with buttons or cubes.

Under the Sea Patterns

We love these fun pieces to practice patterns.

Octopus Color Matching

This beaded octopus is another great fine motor activity as well as color matching. Just punch holes in the color circles, tie on strings and then add the beads.