I have waited for months, now, with anticipation for the O is for Ocean unit with our preschool class. You see, my teaching assistant Katie (the same person who made those adorable Robot party favors for our class) found a great fizzing ocean world by Fun At Home With Kids on Pinterest for us to do.

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Katie sent me the pin and the moment I saw it I was thrilled. Our kids were going to have FUN! So, now I needed an ocean craft for our little kiddos to make along with this activity. Back to Pinterest! I came across this bottle cap ocean scene on paper plates by I Heart Crafty Things that was perfect. O is for Ocean proved to be an enjoyable, rich day of learning. Next year, we’ll do it again!

What I love about this craft is that it is easy to pull together and simple to do. Being on a very limited budget, I used many things I found right in my home. Here is what you’ll need:

How to Make an O is for Ocean Paper Plate Craft

Supplies

Black marker

Blue paper plates

Colorful bottle caps
Drinking straw

Fish / sea life stickers

Glitter

Gold Fish crackers

Googly eyes

Green tissue paper
Plastic container/plate for the glue
Q-tips – cotton swabs

Rice or dried beans for sand

White school glue

White paint

Yellow copy or construction paper

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Directions

The only tricky part of this simply project is in getting the bottle caps and rice to stick. They need a little bit of time to set.

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Pour some white school glue on the bottom edge of one side of the plate.
Spread it thinly using a Q-tip and immediately sprinkle rice on it.
Move the rice around by tipping the plate till it sticks. You may want to lightly press it into the glue. This will be the sand on the ocean floor.
Next, glue yellow paper triangles on the plate. They will be the tail fins for the larger fish.
Dip the bottle cap edges in the glue and set them over the tail.
Wait for it to set for a few minutes.
Add a drop of glue on the bottle caps and set a googly eye on.
Finally, draw the smile on each bottle cap.
Squiggle glue on the side of the fish and tail.
Sprinkle glitter on the squiggles.
Glue shredded green paper on as seaweed.
Glue Gold Fish crackers on for little fishies in your scene.
Add some sea life stickers
Pour white tempera paint onto a clean space of your plate.
Using a plastic drinking straw, dip the end in the paint and lightly tap white rings on your scene as bubbles.*

*My little kiddos were “running out of steam” when we got to this part so, to preserve their enjoyment, we skipped the bubbles!

Tip: we “unveiled” each part of the project as we went along. Each adult took a table of four students to work with. We brought them the next parts of the project after they had completed the previous until it was complete. We’ve learned by experience that if you put it all out on the table “anything” can happen! LOL

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In a soon-coming post I will show you the Ocean FIZZIE activity and tell you just how to set it up plus I will share the sorting and graph activities we did with our preschool class, as well.

Stay tuned!

More Letter O preschool ideas:
Letter O is for Olympics Preschool Craft
Letter O is for Olympics Preschool Games
Letter O is for Owl

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Yes, you can even BUY bottle caps for children’s crafts!

Thank goodness. No more need to buy soft drinks to collect them.

Enjoy!

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How to Make an O is for Ocean Paper Plate Craft

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