Letter U, Under the Sea

We happened to have a convergence of oceany awesomness at our house, and oh boy did we have fun with it! Erik had to write  report on sharks for school during the same week that it was my turn to host our pre-school coop and teach the letter U. We decided to go whole hog with an ocean theme for everyone! 

Some of our letter U activities included making sea Urchins out of play dough and toothpicks. Some of the kids were enthralled with the simple fun of stabbing their ball of play dough with all the toothpicks, some weren't as interested. 

 Another fun thing we did was to make a giant Under the sea coloring page for all the kids to share. I taped a sheet of craft paper (the back side of some leftover wrapping paper would work too) to the table and just free handed some ocean creatures on to it. Don't look too close, I'm not an artist! :) The kids don't care though, and they loved it.

Set out a variety of coloring tools (crayons, markers, pencils, etc) and let them go to work. We actually kept this on the table for a couple of days for my kids to work on, putting a table cloth over it when needed to protect it.

 One really fun resource for our Under the Sea week was this great book! You can see some of the crafts we did out of it in the background of the pictures above. The kids really really loved it!

Click the image to go check out the book on Amazon.

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