Deep Sea Diorama and Activities

This is a Deep Sea Diorama craft where you color and display a group of sea creatures against a deep sea background. 

ACTIVITY

For this craft we do a sea hunt activity where you must find a set of seven sea creatures as well as a treasure chest!

Download the pictures for the kids to find

You hold up a picture of each creature the kids must find:

Dowload larger pictures to hold up on display

Finally you tell them that there is also a treasure chest to find!

 

SONGS

Baby Beluga by Raffi

CRAFT INSTRUCTIONS

Here is the diorama ready for the kids to work on:

Here are the steps that the kids will follow to complete their diorama:

 

You can make the frame of the diorama out of a shoe box or other box of about the right size.  I could never round up enough shoe boxes so I will describe how I made the frame from a ledger size piece of paper (11 inches by 17 inches).

Here is the picture and heading that are printed onto the ledger size paper:

 Download the diorama picture with heading from here

If you want just the picture to glue to the back of a shoe box diorama frame:

Download just the picture from here
 

After the diorama picture is printed on 11x17 inch paper you fold it for added strength and prepare to add the sea floor section:

The printed heading is folded back and ends up on the back of the diorama:

The  sea floor is made from two pieces of light blue card stock 11 inches wide and 6.25 inches deep, rounded at the front as show above.

The top piece of the floor has the strips slit almost to the back and this piece is glued along the back strip to the blue card stock piece below it:

The floor section is now glued to the diorama frame:

The sea creatures for the diorama can now be printed and cut out so that they are ready for the kids to color and glue to the diorama strips as shown in the steps above.

You can download the file of sea creatures from here 

You can also download...

A set of labelled sea creatures so that the kids can see what their names are

Color and glue on the sea creatures as described above and you are done!

One nice thing about this diorama is that it can be folded flat for transportation or storage:

BOOKS TO READ ALOUD


Commotion in the Ocean

This book is also available to borrow in PDF format from the Internet Archives:

Commotion in the Ocean at the Internet Archives

Baby Beluga by Raffi

Baby Beluga is also available to borrow in PDF format from the Internet Archives:

Baby Beluga at the Internet Archives

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