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Hanging Watercolor Jellyfish Craft for Preschoolers

May 15, 2016 by Sheryl Cooper

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Inside: This jellyfish craft includes using watercolors to create a colorful hanging decoration. Such a fun activity that is perfect for the ocean theme!

One of our last themes for our school year is the ocean theme. Most of our preschoolers have visited the beach, so this theme is very meaningful to them. This year we added the most beautiful watercolor jellyfish craft to our art table.

BUT, if you’ve been reading my blog for awhile, you know I am not really keen on crafts. I really want as much process art as possible. So, I found a way to do that with this.

There’s lots of squirting glue.

There’s pressing as many tissue paper squares onto that glue as possible.

There’s squirting watercolors onto coffee filters for the tentacles.

Okay, that last one? That was truly the biggest hit to this art activity. Give any child a spray bottle and you will see delight. Huge delight.

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Hanging Jellyfish Craft for Preschoolers

What we used:

Plastic lids or bowls (we happened to have some from a previous project)

Tissue paper squares

White glue

Coffee filters

Liquid watercolors (we used blue and green)

Setting it up:

Cut the coffee filters into strips. We only used the parts with the folds.

We chose blue and white tissue paper squares and placed them on the art table along with glue and the plastic lids. We turned the lids upside down so they were more like a bowl.

Squirt or brush glue on the inside of the plastic lid.

Hanging Jellyfish Craft for Preschoolers

Then press the tissue paper squares on top of the glue.

Hanging Jellyfish Craft for Preschoolers

It’s okay if your children don’t cover all of the plastic lid. In fact, none of ours did.

Hanging Jellyfish Craft for Preschoolers

Let dry.

Hanging Jellyfish Craft for Preschoolers

Spraying the Tentacles:

Now for the fun part. Trust me. Have you ever handed a preschooler a spray bottle? Yep, it’s that much loved.

I placed our paper strips in a container with sides, to contain the spray. Well, most of it. There were some sprays that went beyond the container.  We put blue in one spray bottle and green in another. Remove the strips from the container and set on a tray to dry. We leave ours crumpled up for a nicer effect.

Hanging Jellyfish Craft for Preschoolers

Assembling the jellyfish:

I stapled the tentacles to the plastic lid. I poked a hole in the top to add some clear fishing line and hung them from the ceiling in our classroom.

Fun, right?

Hanging Jellyfish Craft for Preschoolers

Hanging Jellyfish Craft for Preschoolers

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About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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  1. Tierra Williams

    June 10, 2016 at 11:34 am

    I just wanted to know where did you get the plastic lids from to make the watercolor jellyfish?

    • Sheryl Cooper

      June 10, 2016 at 2:41 pm

      Hi Tierra – someone gave them to us. They were lids to some plastic bowls that they didn’t need, so they thought we could make use of them.

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