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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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You will probably need a wide variety of Ocean Theme activities for your preschool lesson planning. We’ve included activities ranging from alphabet and counting to patterns, sight words, and more. Check them out below.
Anytime we are teaching early math we need to cover different parts of number sense. In the following math activities, you’ll find counting, subitizing, graphing, 10 frames, and more to teach number sense during your preschool Ocean theme.
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.
Fish in the Sea Counting
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.
In preschool, we work on a range of literacy skills depending on where our kiddos are at. Here are earth-themed centers for alphabet letters, syllables, sight words, and more to use in your Ocean preschool theme.
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.
If you need an idea for circle time to practice colors, or some fun additional ocean activities, these Ocean theme printables are for you.
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.
Do you ever need something fast, no-prep, print-and-go for a sub or one of those super crazy preschool days?
These Ocean worksheets are the perfect last-minute fill-in for your lesson plans. They’re also a lot of fun for early finishers or for take-home packets.
These Ocean worksheets cover a variety of early math skills. Teach kids shapes, counting, base 10, measurement, and number recognition with these fun math printables.
We are constantly working on early literacy in preschool. These Ocean literacy worksheets allow you to differentiate between a variety of learning levels. Younger preschoolers and pre-writers can start with the sorting whereas more advanced learners can work on letter sounds and letter tracing.
Some of the most important skills preschoolers learn are not math and literacy. With these Ocean worksheets they can also practice fine motor skills, tracing, scissor skills, and even do a bit of science.
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Do you mind sharing where you found the fish erasers?
I get most of my erasers on Amazon, Target and Dollar Tree. I think I got these at Target, and we LOVE them.
thanks!
Where did you get the ocean animals counters in your Diver iSpy game?
Hi! We grabbed them here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001UG59M2/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&psc=1&linkCode=li3&tag=plannplayt0b-20&linkId=d31277b0794c3b312656e59c0e2643be&language=en_US