Happy Gummy Sea Animals

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As piece of job of Ocean Week nosotros decided to utilisation some gummy bounding main animals! We chose sea horses, fish, together with sea urchins, since nosotros mean value they are fun animals... but you lot could actually crusade this amongst whatever bounding main animal.

Materials Needed:

• contact paper
• colored cardstock
• flat toothpicks (for sea urchins)
• scissors
• tissue newspaper or streamers
• seahorse printable

Directions:

Making gummy bounding main animals is super easy!

Here's how to brand a gummy fish...

First you'll desire to cutting out your bounding main animate existence from cardstock together with and thus cutting out the middle too.

Next you'll desire to cutting upward colored cardstock into piffling pieces.

After that you lot need to set the contact newspaper on the flooring or tabular array (or wall), gummy side up. Add ripped upward pieces of newspaper to the insides of the gummy animal

After you lot are done adding strips of newspaper to your fish, simply cutting closed to the exterior of the fish together with and thus stick it to a slice of newspaper or wall, gummy side down!!

You tin fifty-fifty utilisation an entire sticky wall seashore to add together these fish to.

Here's how to brand a gummy sea urchin...

Just cutting out a circle slice of newspaper together with stick it to a slice of contact paper, gummy side up. If your tiddler wants she tin decorate the middle of the sea urchin amongst markers earlier adding it to the contact paper.

Next simply add together your apartment toothpicks all closed to the edges of the circle to utilisation the spines.

Lastly, add together a slice of contact newspaper to the dorsum of the sea urchin to laminate it together with and thus cutting closed to the whole sea urchin using scissors.

Once you lot are done you lot tin add together your sea urchin to a seashore gummy wall or simply display it on it's own. 

Here's how to brand a gummy seahorse...

First you'll desire to impress out this outline of a seahorse onto colored cardstock.

Next cutting it out together with and thus cutting out the within of the seahorse every bit well, leaving empty infinite inwards the middle of the seahorse to add together some color.

Stick the seahorse outline onto a slice of contact paper, gummy side out. Add some tissue newspaper together with colored newspaper to the gummy piece of job of the seahorse. My immature lady together with I ripped upward some of the pieces of tissue newspaper together with streamers which was a peachy fine motor activity!

Once the seahorse is decorated, cutting closed to the exterior together with add together the seahorse to your gummy seashore or simply display it on the wall! You could fifty-fifty stick it to your window every bit a seahorse Sun catcher! 

One of our favorite bounding main books to existent along amongst this action is Eric Carle's Mister Seahorse.

Do you lot convey whatever other favorite bounding main themed crafts or activities or books you lot could part amongst us? Head on over to our Ocean Week landing page to encounter the other activities we've shared this week.

Also, don't forget to caput over together with enter to win a PaddlePak backpack for your piffling explorer!! There are ix dissimilar paddlepaks to select from together with all of them acquire along perfectly amongst our bounding main calendar week theme!!

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