Set up a fun preschool ocean theme in the classroom or at home with these easy ocean science activities and preschool ocean crafts. From simple preschool science to sensory play and ocean-themed printables, your preschool ocean activities are covered!
Printable Ocean Preschool Pack
Explore real-life ocean pictures with your older toddler or preschooler in our newest preschool ocean activities pack. It’s a done-for-you ocean theme lesson plan, filled with fun hands-on activities, setup instructions, and more!
Preschool Ocean Crafts & Science Activities
Below, you will find a mix of hands-on ocean activities for preschoolers, ocean themed projects, and worksheets for science, art, math, coding, and more!
NEW! Ocean Build a Path Coding
Explore beginner coding with this fun and simple-to-use ocean build-a-path game. Available in color and black and white.
NEW! Ocean Preschool Math Pack Pack
Pick up this handy preschool math pack with an ocean theme! Fun, quiet time activity or add to your preschool math center.
Jellyfish Craft
Learn about jellyfish and create a fun glow-in-the-dark ocean animal craft to hang in a room.
Starfish Salt Dough Craft
Use our traditional salt dough recipe to create starfish for an ocean-themed activity.
Coral Reef Art
Use bubble wrap and sponges to color the printable coral reef picture.
Puffer Fish Watercolor Painting
Have you ever tried watercolors and salt? This ocean art project uses a fun, simple watercolor technique and a free template for cute blowfish!
Shark Week Activities
How do sharks float (or not sink) in the ocean? Kids will have a lot of fun with these water bottle sharks that share a bit of science. Make a shark-themed sensory bin, shark pudding dough, and more!
How do Whales Stay Warm?
The ocean can get pretty chilly…so how do whales stay warm? Try this fun blubber science experiment to test it out for yourself.
Ocean Waves in a Bottle
Make a wave in a bottle or jar! Kids will love creating an ocean in a jar with this wave activity. Learn a bit about how a wave forms.
Ocean Theme Oil and Water Activity
Colorful fish and the science behind why oil and water don’t mix!
Ocean Sensory Bin
Touch the ocean! If you don’t live near the real thing, make an ocean sensory bin with sand and shells! Grab a free Sea Creatures Coloring Book too.
Ocean Water Sensory Bin
This ocean water sensory bin starts out as a fantastic ice-melting science activity and transforms into an ocean-themed sensory bin. Two activities in one!
Ocean Moon Sand Sensory Bin
Moon sand is another great sensory bin filler. It’s a simple recipe you can make with items from the kitchen cupboard. You can make DIY moon sand here.
Ocean Colored Salt Sensory Bin
You can dye your own colored sensory bin fillers with easy recipes! Here we use colored Epsom salt, but you can also dye rice and pasta. Learn how to make colored salt for sensory bins.
Ocean Sensory Bottle or Jar
Sensory bottles are a great visual processing item and are often used to create a calming or relaxing experience for kids (and adults). Here are a few ocean sensory bottles to check out.
Ocean Slime
Use our fantastic saline solution slime recipe to make ocean slime filled with plastic ocean animals and small gems. Swirl several shades of blue together.
Shark Theme Pudding Slime
Hands-on fun with this easy edible slime recipe with a shark theme. A simple introduction to the world of sharks through sensory play!
Printable Ocean Activities
Add these free printable ocean preschool activities to your ocean-theme exploration!
NEW! Ocean Animals I Spy
Investigate like a scientist with a fun Ocean Animals I Spy activity. Make sure to provide a magnifying glass, too!
Printable Ocean Animals Craft
Make these cute, printable ocean animal crafts using split pins or brads! They move!
Ocean Animals Color By Number
Practice basic math skills and color fun ocean animal pictures with our ocean color by number printable pack.
Ocean Animals Pattern Blocks
Grab this free ocean animals pattern blocks mat set to add to your ocean unit and create a simple center in minutes!
Fun Facts About Narwhals
Learn about the amazing unicorns of the sea, Narwhals with these fun and easy STEM activities. Plus, we share with you fun facts we’ve discovered about Narwhals.
Sea Turtle Activity Pack
Use this sea turtle activity pack with younger kids to explore this fantastic creature! Our family has been fortunate to swim alongside sea turtles in the wild in the Caribbean. They are truly beautiful creatures.
Penguin Activities
Penguins are so much fun to learn about for an ocean theme. These printable penguin activities are just right for preschool hands-on learning too.
Pirate Activities
If you have a kid who loves to play pirates but also needs to learn a little early, these pirate activities are for you! Grab our free printable pirate learning pack, search for buried treasure, make gold slime, and prepare to defend the ship (well, not really), but you get the idea!
Printable Preschool Ocean Activities Pack
Perfect for 3-to 6-year-olds in a preschool classroom, learning center, or home. Easy to set up and use with one kiddo or a classroom. This ocean-themed pack includes a book and supply list to help you easily set up the activities.
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Activities Include:
- Alphabet Bingo
- Ten Frame Math Activity
- Ocean Watercolor Art
- Rainbow Fish Project
- Ocean Saltdough Craft
- Ocean Sensory Play
- Ocean Games
- Ocean Puzzles
- Ocean Life Cycle
- And More!
I love the ocean ice melting block! That looks like a lot of fun on a hot day!
Love the little ocean touch tray you guys created! So neat! And you brought home seaweed??? What a great idea!
LOVE these ideas! We are doing a big vacation to the ocean this summer, so we’ll be sure to use some of these ideas with shells that we find when we return! Pinned!
Lots of fun ideas!! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!
What a fab collection! We had some bugs hiding in our ice blocks this week 😉 But totally love the idea of seaside shells and more. Must do when we get back from our holidays next week.
Its very very useful Article. You are rightly guided us . Teaching Our Kid Is Nowadays are Very Challenging…So we have to teach them and keep them updated. Recently i searched for a new type of teaching like, teach our kids via app so i am collecting app… recently i got this app.This Learn Underwater application, will help the kids to distinguish between different aquatic species like sea horse, whale, angel fish and octopus.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ajax.underwater
What beautiful pictures – you make all of these activities look so appealing. Such a brilliant idea to grow the crystals on shells – magical!
Thank you! I love the ocean and beach. We still have the shells too.
In ocean discovering bottle ,the bottle we have to take of glass or not?
Plastic works great!