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Ocean stamp art

September 3, 2013 by Katie 3 Comments

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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.

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  1. Steph @ Crafting in the Rain says

    September 5, 2013 at 8:38 pm

    Oh cute–my kids would have fun with this!

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  2. Carrie says

    September 13, 2013 at 5:51 am

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

    Reply
  3. Sugar Aunts says

    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

    Reply

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