Make sea creatures with children – fascinating underwater world made from all sorts of materials

Are you looking for ideas for exciting crafts with children in the summer? The theme of the sea and the underwater world is undoubtedly something that is immediately associated with the hot months. In today's post you will find great crafts and suggestions on how you can keep young children busy and amused in the summer. Here you will discover many simple and fascinating projects and learn how to make sea creatures. The materials for implementing these craft projects are usually always on hand. Create creatures like fish, crabs, jellyfish, seahorses and octopuses and encourage creativity in your loved ones.

Make fish out of shells

If you love going to the sea and spent your last vacation on the beach with your children, then your loved one probably brought some shells home with them. The shells are a great craft material for your summer craft projects. Depending on the age of the child, you can make a rainbow fish together.

Older children can let their imagination run wild and be creative. Have the little ones paint the shell in stripes in rainbow colors. Cut out the fish fins from foam and attach them. Finally, stick on a googly eye andthe pretty fishis ready in no time.

Make a colorful puffer fish out of paper

Is your child fascinated by the unique body shape of puffer fish or spiny fish? Then copy the colorful, spherical creatures. Paper is particularly suitable as a craft material for the youngest children. Once cut out of paper using a stencil, you can vary the colors to your heart's content. The cheerful and colorful puffer fish are a beautiful decoration for the long-awaited underwater world party.

Make sea creatures out of toilet rolls

Instead of throwing away the empty toilet paper rolls, you can make a koi out of them. These cute sea creatures are also easy to make and require little material and time. Press one end of the toilet roll together with your fingers and cut off the corners. Cover the fish with construction paper in colors and patterns of your choice and attach the fins. Small wooden beads are ideal as eyes.

Folding fish made easy

You can fold pretty fish out of paper. Of course it doesn't always have to be an origami fish. If you are new to the origami folding technique or are looking for last minute craft ideas, you can make accordion sea creatures. For the pretty, swimming fish in the picture above, all you need is colored construction paper and a hole punch.

Stick colorful pieces of paper on old CDs and turn them into fish

Clay fish

Do-it-yourself fish fishing game

Create underwater animals from bottle caps and paper

Sew fish-shaped fabric bag for children

Simple ideas – create crab and crab

Other amazing sea creatures that immediately make you think of summer, sun and sea are the crabs and crabs. Such a funny crab will look good as a decoration at an underwater birthday party, for example. The cute creature is quickly made from paper, some wire for the crab legs and Styrofoam balls (two small and one large half of the ball).

Make a crab out of paper plates

You and your children can also create a funny crab out of paper plates and red pipe cleaners. Have your sweetheart paint the paper plates red and design the legs together. The children will undoubtedly be proud of the plus-sized crab.

Create an underwater world image

Cute crab topper for straws

At the next themed party, everyone present will find such a pretty straw topper adorable. This decoration is only made from paper. Dare to try and surprise the little guests of honor.

Make an octopus out of fleece

Curious and undoubtedly interesting sea creatures are the octopuses. What do you think about making a friendly and cuddly octopus with your child? For this great toy you will need the following materials:

square piece of fleece
a Styrofoam ball
narrow, colorful stripes
a piece of wide ribbon
Felt remnants in white, gray and black
Yarn
Gummi

First cut out a 5 x 5 cm square from each corner of the fleece fabric and then make fringes all around the square. Wrap the Styrofoam ball with the fleece and tie a rubber band around it. Pull the fabric straight and braid each leg.

Cut the ends of each leg cleanly and as straight as possible and decorate them with pretty bows from the thin fabric ribbon. Tie the wider ribbon into a bandana on the cute creature's head. Create the animal's eyes from the leftover felt. Last but not least, sew the octopus' mouth.

Paper octopus

If you are looking for suitable DIY projects for small children's hands, then you can also make this sea creature from a sheet of paper. Simply roll up the paper, make small incisions and roll each strip of paper on a pin. The little ones can then paint the face happy or evil to their hearts' content.

Ideas for cute crochet animals

These cute octopuses are made using the interesting amigurumi crochet technique. You can find out what Amigurumi crocheting actually means as well as great suggestions for cute crocheted animals and figureshere.

Make an octopus out of fabric and decorate it with bubble wrap and paint

Make seahorses out of paper plates

When we talk about unique sea creatures, we can't just ignore the adorable seahorses. The children can cut out this fascinating creature from the animal kingdom from the edge of the paper plate and design it according to their own ideas using the color of their choice. Below you will find a stencil that you can easily transfer to paper plates.

A few ideas on how to make seahorsescan be found here.

Make small seahorses out of paper and rhinestones

Create extraordinary animals from empty toilet paper rolls

Folding origami seahorses

Make sea creatures with felt

Sea creatures templates – seahorses to print for free

Make sea creatures – jellyfish from paper plates and fabric ribbons

You are welcome to come with your childMake colorful jellyfish. They are a wonderful decoration for the children's room or for the next garden party. The adolescents can create the interesting creatures themselves using sturdy paper, paper plates, pool noodles, gift ribbons and strips of paper.

Make jellyfish out of pool noodles, bubble wrap and paper

Jellyfish made from transparent film as a window decoration

Make a unique underwater world out of egg carton

Make starfish out of paper

If you want to bring the summery and sunny atmosphere into your home, you can also make a colorful starfish. The five-pointed star can be quickly cut out using a template. For decoration you can use glitter, crystals, small shells or sand. Let your children wave the brush over the paper starfish and conjure up imaginative and colorful sea creatures.

Sew decorative starfish

Starfish template

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