O is for Octopus Craft – Learning With My Boys

The girls had fun learning about octopuses today. They enjoyed painting, playdough and our octopus experiment. We got our recourses for today from the O is for Otter, Octopus, Ostrich Teachers Pay Teachers pack.

Octopus Science

First we studied the Parts of an Octopus poster.
We learned more about ostriches by watching Wild Kratt Dangerous Under Water Creatures.
She also did her Octopus page from her Abeka Letters & Sounds for 3’s book.
She counted 8 fish and 8 legs on the octopus with her Abeka Numbers and Skills with Button Bear book.
We reviewed all of the sounds we have learned so far with the Abeka Alphabet Flashcards.

Then we tried an experiment to see how an octopus can fit through small spaces since they have no bones. We drew an octopus on a gallon size plastic bag and then we put water and red food coloring in it. It feels soft like jello since there are no bones.
I cut a one inch hole in a paper bowl and colored the bottom of the bowl black to look like a rock or a cave.
The girl did not think that the octopus bag would fit into the hole and fit in the bowl cave. Little by little they squished the bag through the hole and it all got through.

The girls each had a similar writing paper for the letter O. My 3 year old had a capital O and lowercase o with tracing arrows, along with an octopus to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added a short poem and more tracing O’s and o’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the O is for Otter, Octopus, Ostrich Teachers Pay Teachers pack.

I printed this O is for Octopus Craft onto cardstock for the girls to paint. I cut out the capitol “O” for them to paint. After that dried they glued it to a piece of black construction paper. Then I cut out the eyes and tentacles for them to glue on.

The girls each had a similar number 7 paper for counting otters. My 3 year old had the number 7 with tracing arrows, along with a helpful poem, and 7 octopuses to color. The 5 year old had the same paper, but added more tracing 7’s on the bottom. I found both of these in the O is for Otter, Octopus, Ostrich Teachers Pay Teachers pack.

I printed out the Octopus Puzzle on cardstock and then laminated it so that we can use it over and over again. Then she got top put together the octopus.

I printed out the Octopus Emotions Matching game and then cut the pieces and laminated them. First we talked about different emotions and then she matched them up.

I printed out these Octopus Playdough sheets to add tentacles to the octopus head.

I printed out the Octopus Color Match game, and cut them out. I laminated them and the cut them again. Then we turned them all upside down and took turns flipping to try to find matching colors. They enjoyed this game, and did great taking turns.