Friday, September 18, 2015

Octopus Activities

The octopus is one of existence's most abnormal and delightful creatures, and children liking learning approximately them.


The octopus makes an epitome argument for preschool or substantial grade classrooms. Children catch the octopus an delightful topic on account of of the habit it moves, camouflages itself, and shoots an inky substance to defend itself. The octopus is well-suited to a scan of zoo animals, ocean growth, or to serve as the packages O in an A-to-Z subject. You can integrate science, crafts, games, snacks very as maths by counting to eight, or by eights for older students, and reading octopus-themed books. An epitome nature Journey concept would to be a holiday to the aquarium or zoo to observe an octopus in adult.


Octopus Juice Popsicles


Compose kids a healthy convivial snack to fist. Pour extract into paper cups. Contain a Art stick and then add gummy worms environing the edges, inserting the gummy worms partially into the secretion. Dangling the gummy worms over the edges of the Mug Testament bestow the opinion of octopus legs. Freeze the octopus serum treats until completely solid before serving to the organization.


Braided Yarn Octopus


For this Art you demand two disparate colours of flaxen thread, a scarce cotton balls, two googly eyes, scissors, and glue. Choose one of the thread colours and intersect 24 pieces into 12-inch-long sections. Repeat this process with the remaining strands and you will create eight braided octopus legs. Tie off each braided leg with the alternate colored yarn, then trim. Glue the eyes in place on the head, above the bow tie. Finally, take a small section of the alternate color yarn and glue on a mouth shape. Use the other color of yarn to take a section around the base of the head and tie a knot, then a bow on top of that knot. Cut off the ends. With the octopus sitting right side up, take sections of six yarn strands and braid them. To braid, take six strands of yarn and section into three groups of two strands and braid. Situate the pieces in the shape of a spin with the pieces overlapping or intersecting in the centre of the shape. Roll the cotton balls in your labourer until they arrangement one ball the shape and proportions of a ping-pong ball, which you should compass in the centre of the spun wool pieces. This cotton ball is the head of the octopus. Gather the yarn pieces around the octopus head.


Octopus Tag


For this version of tag, choose a child to be the octopus. Other children are fish and will be lined up on one side of the playing area. When the octopus calls out, "Fish, fish, swim in my ocean," the children playing fish must run to the opposite side past the octopus. Any child tagged by the octopus serve as tentacles and hold hands with the octopus or another tentacle. The captured fish now help the octopus tag other fish by stretching out a free hand. The tentacles cannot move their feet to chase or tag fish, however. The game ends when the last fish is tagged. That fish becomes the next octopus.


Balloon Octopus


Using a purple or blue balloon, blow up the balloon and tie off. Then have children count out eight matching streamers to serve as legs. Attach reinforcement circles used for binder pages for the tentacles and for eyes.