I love doing craft projects we can all work together on as a group. While the kids love taking home and showing off their individual crafts, I have found they also enjoy working on things together and have reminders up all around them of work they have done as a team. Working as a team to accomplish a goal is a great learning opportunity for preschoolers. as long as the activity is fun and engaging and appropriate to the children's ages and skill levels you'd be surprised how much "getting along" can occur.
I used basic acrylic paint and mixed in a little shaving cream to give the paint some texture. It smelled great too!
While the "water" dried we got to work on coloring the sea animals. We had octopus, crabs, sea horses, starfish and jelly fish.
We then populated our ocean with our creations...
The finished product...
I added some sand made out of construction paper to give it a more authentic look. The ocean hung in the playroom the entire month of June and even a few days after. The kids loved showing their parents which animal was theirs and telling them to smell the ocean (LOL!).
