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14 Paper Plate Ocean Animals

May 24, 2022 By Kate 7 Comments

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If you love ocean animals and paper plate crafts then you will love our ebook, Paper Plate Ocean Animals!

Included are 14 Ocean animal templates which transform the humble paper plate into some of your favourite sea creatures. 

14 paper plate ocean animal crafts for kids. This ebook contains the printable templates to transform paper plates into 14 different sea creatures along with interesting non fiction facts about each one. Kids will gain an appreciation of our sea life, learning about ocean animals and also making an eye-catching craft which can be hung on the wall #oceananimals #kidscrafts #paperplates #paperplatecrafts

In our paper plate ocean animals ebook we explore some of the animals which call our oceans home, providing cool facts and information on each one as well as a template to create an eye-catching craft which can be hung on the wall.

You can get your copy of the ebook here.

Adorable paper plate crab craft, from the paper plate Ocean Animal ebook containing the templates for 14 amazing ocean animals along with facts and information kids will love to learn #oceananimals #crab #paperplate #kidscrafts

I have loved learning about these incredible animals almost as much as I’ve enjoyed designing the crafts. Crafts are fun, but I’d love for kids to absorb just how important and unique each of the animals they are making is. This is why I’ve included some fascinating facts…

For example, did you know:

• Crabs breathe through gills (both in and OUT of the water)
• The male seahorse gets pregnant and has babies – up to 1500 at a time after the female deposits her eggs in his pouch
• A blue whale’s heart is the size of a small car
• Swordfish can swim as fast as a speeding car
• The temperature of the sand eggs are buried in determines whether baby sea turtles will be male or female
• A narwhal’s “unicorn horn” is actually a tooth protruding from it’s upper lip (sorry to burst your bubble on this one)
• Or my favourite fact of all, Killer Whale pods are usually lead by their oldest female in order to benefit from her lifetime of wisdom. If only humans could take a leaf from their book, right?

Adorable paper plate Narwhal craft, from the paper plate Ocean Animal ebook containing the templates for 14 amazing ocean animals along with facts and information kids will love to learn #oceananimals #crab #paperplate #kidscrafts

Adorable paper plate Orca craft, from the paper plate Ocean Animal ebook containing the templates for 14 amazing ocean animals along with facts and information kids will love to learn #oceananimals #crab #paperplate #kidscrafts

Gorgeous paper plate Eagle Ray craft, from the paper plate Ocean Animal ebook containing the templates for 14 amazing ocean animals along with facts and information kids will love to learn #oceananimals #crab #paperplate #kidscrafts

Adorable paper plate jellyfish craft, from the paper plate Ocean Animal ebook containing the templates for 14 amazing ocean animals along with facts and information kids will love to learn #oceananimals #crab #paperplate #kidscrafts

My hope is that Paper Plate Ocean Animals will help kids gain an appreciation of marine life, which sadly needs our protection. Many of these beautiful animals are endangered by human activities, pollution and global warming.

Age recommendation: The ebook is designed for kids 6+, but younger kids could also do the crafts with some help from a parent or teacher. You are never too young or old to learn about ocean animals!

File type: The ebook is a printable pdf file, but you will download a zip file containing both a USA and AUS/UK version (with differences in spelling, page size and units of measurement).

14 paper plate ocean animal crafts for kids. This ebook contains the printable templates to transform paper plates into 14 different sea creatures along with interesting non fiction facts about each one. Kids will gain an appreciation of our sea life, learning about ocean animals and also making an eye-catching craft which can be hung on the wall #oceananimals #kidscrafts #paperplates #paperplatecrafts

Template examples form the Paper Plate Ocean Animal craft ebook

 

How to make a paper plate ocean animal

All of the info you need is contained in the ebook, but I have created a short tutorial video so you can see how it’s done. The technique is basically the same for all of the animals.

Change it to suit your needs and the materials you have on hand

We have used heavy coloured construction paper (card stock), but ordinary paper will also work. If you would rather print the templates directly onto the construction paper you can (instead of stapling the template on top of the paper as I have done), or if you have no construction paper you could print the templates onto plain white and hand colour them. Do whatever you like!

Making an ocean background

As an optional extra you might like to make an ocean collage background for your paper plate sea animals. I have created background collages by layering paper of different textures onto a background of solid colour.

Some materials you could use are:

• Newspaper – I’ve coloured mine using liquid watercolour
• Paper towel – mine has been scrunch dyed using liquid watercolour
• White torn paper towel for foamy waves
• Tiny fish cut out from coloured paper – I’ve used metallic paper but plain colour would work just as well
• Anything else you can think of such as: tissue paper, sand paper, paper printed on with bubble wrap, recycled artworks etc.

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14 paper plate ocean animal crafts for kids. This ebook contains the printable templates to transform paper plates into 14 different sea creatures along with interesting non fiction facts about each one. Kids will gain an appreciation of our sea life, learning about ocean animals and also making an eye-catching craft which can be hung on the wall #oceananimals #kidscrafts #paperplates #paperplatecrafts

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Comments

  1. 1

    Binh Hawken says

    August 1, 2018 at 8:07 am

    That is a great idea. Thank you for your share. We learn a lot about your lessons. My child loves them so much.

    Best Regards,

    Binh Hawken

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      Kate says

      August 1, 2018 at 11:29 pm

      Thanks! I’m so glad you like them 🙂

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  2. 3

    jamie says

    May 10, 2019 at 10:13 pm

    you are awesome

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  3. 4

    Natalia says

    June 27, 2021 at 5:31 am

    Thank you Kate for the wonderful ideas.

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    Arlene Block says

    May 15, 2022 at 7:00 am

    Male seahorses do NOT get pregnant: the eggs are transferred to his pouch by the female. He holds them until they are ready to hatch. Look for YouTube or on-line videos showing the male releasing the baby seahorses. Cool!

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      Kate says

      May 15, 2022 at 8:33 am

      Fair call. I’m going to update the bullet point to a more accurate and clearly-defined description. Although, if the definition of pregnancy is carrying and sustaining developing embryos, one could argue that carrying developing baby seahorses in egg form inside his pouch does mean you could call him pregnant?

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        Elizabeth says

        June 28, 2022 at 8:27 pm

        Nah, you’re just fine. They get pregnant.

        https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/seahorse.html

        https://www.nationalgeographic.com/pages/article/seahorse-fathers-take-reins-in-childbirth

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