Craft activities play an important role in children’s healthy development; they learn to think out of the box. In many Montessori schools, teachers use various creative activities to introduce new concepts in a fun and entertaining way. You would be surprised to know that through craft activities you can encourage your kids to explore the wonderful marine life. Doing jellyfish crafts provides kids an insight into this unexplored part of our world while allowing them to explore various textures and develop their thinking and creative skills.

Creative Jelly Fish Ideas for Preschoolers :

As kids are stuck at home now due to the COVID-19 situation, you can try out some of these easiest DIY jellyfish craft ideas that do not require any special skills, tools, or even time to make.

Jellyfish Rock stone Painting :

Stone painting is a hobby that’s fast catching up with this modern age kids. They are easily available, inexpensive, and used to create mantelpiece decoration, paperweight, or for gifting purposes.

Materials :

• Smooth and fairly flat stone
• Sketch pen
• Wood pencil
• Paint and brush

Instructions :

• Ask your kids to sketch a jellyfish on the rock with a pencil.
• Paint over the pencil outline and color the jellyfish eyes with a white posca pen.
• Use a purple posca pen and paint the jellyfish head and the tentacles. They can paint the main body using a blue posca pen.
• Draw black eyes, spot on the fact, and add small god details to the tentacles of the jellyfish using the black posca pen.
• Once everything is done, outline the image.

Paper Bag Jellyfish Craft :

In Anaheim CA city playschools, teachers do this craft with their students to introduce the line, color, hue, form, and shape. This activity also improves their motor skills and nurtures their creativity.

Materials :

• Glue stick
• Craft paint
• Markers
• Scissors (patterned)
• Brown paper lunch sacks
• White mini cupcake liners
• Foam paintbrush
• Double-sided tape

Instructions :

• Paint the front portion of the lunch sacks with a mix of colors and let them dry.
• Cut the opening of the bag into fringe-looking stripes using your patterned scissors.
• Now stick or tape two small cupcake liners on the top of the bag.
• Draw a black dot inside the eyes.

Handprint jellyfish Art :

In Montessori Anaheim CA schools, teachers encourage kids to do this activity as it develops their motor skills.

Materials :

• Multicolor cupcake liners
• Glue
• Scissors
• Multicolor construction paper
• Pencil
• Googly eyes

Instructions :

• Trace your child’s hand on a construction paper and cut it out.
• Roll Out a cupcake liner and cut it in half.
• Stick the semi-circular cupcake liner on top of the hand cutout to make the jellyfish’s body.
• Paste the eyes on the cupcake liner using glue.

As they start exploring marine life, they would learn that sea creatures symbolize strength and resilience as every moment they have to fight for their survival in the depths. Moreover, craft activities relieve stress in kids, increase their happiness quotient, develop cognitive skills, boost their self-esteem, self-expression, promote innovation, and help them make new friends.