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Ocean stamp art

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If you’ve been following along, you know that I recently completed a preschool ocean unit with my two kids. During this unit, I tried to incorporate activities spanning the curriculum, including science, language, math, motor development, sensory play, and art. This ocean stamp art activity was one of the ocean-themed art activities we did during our ocean unit.

Note: For more resources, printables and activities related to the ocean and its inhabitants, please see my ocean unit study page.

Ocean stamp art || Gift of Curiosity

A while back I had picked up some jumbo ocean-themed stamps, and I was looking for a way to use them.  I didn’t have any stamp pads large enough to fit them, but I realized they would work with our do-a-dot markers. So I pulled out some blue poster board paper to serve as our ocean backdrop and then let the kids have fun!

Ocean stamp art || Gift of Curiosity

The do-a-dot markers worked very well for coloring the stamps.

Ocean stamp art || Gift of Curiosity

And the kids loved pressing their ocean animals on to their poster boards to see how they would turn out.

Ocean stamp art || Gift of Curiosity

Slowly, an entire ocean of animals began to appear.

Ocean stamp art || Gift of Curiosity

Then the kids discovered that they could use more than one color of marker to ink their stamps.

Ocean stamp art || Gift of Curiosity

And with that, some very colorful creatures were born!

Ocean stamp art || Gift of Curiosity

After a while, QBoy decided to used the do-a-dot markers to add some seaweed to his ocean.

Ocean stamp art || Gift of Curiosity

And here are the kids’ final products!

Ocean stamp art || Gift of Curiosity

More resources for learning about the ocean

More ocean posts from Gift of Curiosity:

  • Ocean Montessori activities
  • Learning about ocean animals
  • Salt water and waves science
  • Shell activities
  • Blubber experiment
  • Ocean animals book & 3-part cards
  • Ocean Printables Pack
  • Ocean Do-a-Dot Printables
  • Ocean I Spy


For more resources, printables and activities related to the ocean and its inhabitants, please see my Ocean Unit Study page and my Oceans Pinterest board.

Follow Gift of Curiosity’s board Ocean Unit Ideas on Pinterest.

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Filed Under: Toddler, Arts and Crafts, Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, Ocean

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3 Comments

  1. Steph @ Crafting in the Rain

    September 5, 2013 at 8:38 pm

    Oh cute–my kids would have fun with this!

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  2. Carrie

    September 13, 2013 at 5:51 am

    I love the idea of dot markers for ink pads. Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!

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  3. Sugar Aunts

    September 13, 2013 at 5:39 pm

    I love this artwork! We are featuring your post tomorrow on Sugar Aunts at Share It Saturday. Thanks for linking up!
    Colleen at Sugar Aunts

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