We have been learning a bit about animals and their habitats, including sea animals for the past couple of weeks. My girls are really enjoying comparing different types of sea life animals and how they adapt to their environment. Today we wanted to share our Easy Paper Plate Jelly Fish Kids Craft, which went perfectly for our science lesson. Plus, if you’re looking for more ocean crafts check out my Paper Plate Crafts list.
Easy Paper Plate Jelly Fish Kids Craft
My girls loved making this jellyfish craft for our ocean themed week. You only need a few supplies that you most likely have at home or in your classroom. The kids will love making them and they are perfect for learning all about ocean animals.
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Materials Needed For Jellyfish Craft
- Paper plate
- Party streamers or tissue paper
- Craft glue
- Scissors
- Paint and paintbrush
- Googly eyes
- Marker
How To Make Jelly Fish Crafts
- Cut your paper plate in half. You only need one side of your paper plate.
- Allow your child to paint the entire front of the paper plate any color they desire. You can be jellyfish specific or let them use their imagination. Allow paint to dry for just a bit.
- While your paint is drying, go ahead and begin cutting the streamers. If you have older children allow them to cut their own, it makes great fine motor skills practice. For little ones go ahead and help them out.
- You want to cut your streamers in half long ways. I cut my girl’s streamers almost as long as their arms, using 4 streamers, then cutting them in half. You should have 8 pieces of long thin streamers.
- Now that your paper plate paint is dried, flip it over to attach your streamers. Add one dot of craft glue on each streamer and glue.
- Time to create your Jelly Fish face. This is just optional, my girls have to have a face for every craft they make. Especially animals.
- Glue down google eyes and with a black marker have your child draw a mouth if they wish.
- Now your Paper Plate Jelly Fish is ready to hang in your home and welcome the beach days to come!
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What is your child’s favorite ocean animal?
so cute, can’t help but smile when looking at these!
Adorable craft. I want to make my own jellyfish now!
Hi there, I’m putting together some craft ideas for a respite service. May I please use your images for the printed material? It’s just for the kids and our staff to refer to. I will keep your watermark.
Yes, thank you for asking!