Your children will have fun learning all about the oceans for kids with this fascinating week-long ocean theme! For this ocean theme preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders – just pick your favorite ocean books and fun educational activities and you’re ready to go! From ocean math to ocean crafts and ocean science to ocean activities for preschoolers – there are lots of ocean ideas to fill up a weeks worth of learning!
Ocean Theme
Themes are a great way to make learning fun and keep kids engaged as they learn math, grammar, reading, writing, science, history, and crafts. This ocean theme is a fun way for kids to learn about the vast oceans that make up our world and all the amazing ocean animals that live in the sea!
Make sure to check out all our themes that are perfect for preschool, prek, kindergarten, and elementary age kids. Whether you call it an oceans theme or an under the sea theme – you are going to love all these ocean theme activities for kids of all ages!
Ocean printables
Try a fun language arts activity to not only learn about the ocean, but a variety of other fun skills with this ocean theme kindergarten!
- Free Ocean Fish Coloring Sheets. They’re perfect for improving fine motor skills!
- Seashell Sight Word Practice from Fantastic Fun and Learning
- Hands-on Reading Game: Diving for Treasure from School Time Snippets
- Free Ocean Themed Writing Paper from 3 Dinosaurs
- Under the Sea Themed Writing Paper from Crystal and Comp
- J is for Jellyfish: Letter of the Week Preschool Craft from Crystal and Comp
- Ocean Themed ABC Sensory Bin from Fantastic Fun and Learning
- Tide Pool Reader with 5 Useful Activities to Support Reading from Classically Homeschooling
- The Best Ocean Animals Preschool Activities from Natural Beach Living
- HUGE pack of Ocean Worksheets to practice a variety of early literacy skills
- Jump into Summer Learning: Ocean Week 2 from 3 Dinosaurs
- Free Alphabet Go Fish Game
- Check out these awesome Ocean Themed Learning Activities from The Wise Owl Factory
- Ocean Kindergarten Sight Word Worksheets
Ocean Math
Pick a couple of these under the sea maths activities to enjoy with your kids! These ocean math activities for preschoolers make learning fun for elementary age students.
- Ocean Numbers Do a Dot Printables
- W is for Whale (Measuring Activities) from Preschool Powol Packets
- Ocean Themed Counting Worksheets to Use with Lego from JDaniel 4s Mom
- Ocean Themed Counting Mats: Numbers 1 to 10 from 3 Dinosaurs
- Paper Plate Color Matching Jellyfish from Schooltime Snippets
- Ocean Color by Number Worksheets
- Practice counting with the Feed the Shark Game Fine Motor Game for Kids from Schooltime snippets
- Use hands-on math activities with these Montessori Ocean Themed Preschool Activities & Printables from Natural Beach Living
- Goldfish Kindergarten Subtraction Games
- Calculate the size of a blue whale with this exciting STEM activity from KC Edventures
- Estimation for Kindergarten Activity with Gold fish
- Super cute Fish bowl, Free Goldfish Counting Printable – 1:1 correspondence activity for numbers 1-10
- Counting Goldfish Activity – roll 2 dice, count the dots and cover the goldfish from 2-12
- Goldfish Addtion for Kindergarten – free printable activity
- Ocean Counting Clip Cards
- Fraction Ocean Math Activities
- Fun Goldfish Math with greater than, less than, or equal to fish bowls
- One Fish Two Fish Counting Game for preschoolers with goldfish snacks
- Aquarium Fish Subtraction Games for Grade 1
Ocean Craft
Choose your favorite under the sea crafts to enjoy with your kids!
- Egg Carton Sea Life Recycled Craft from Fantastic Fun and Learning
- Ocean Sunfish Paper Plate Craft for Kids (Mola Fish) from Buggy and Buddy
- Cool Ocean Art Project for Kids from Buggy and Buddy
- Simple and fun Watercolor Ocean Project
- Ink and Tempera Resist Ocean Scene Art Project for Kids source
- Art for Kids: Ocean Scenes Using Chalk and Tempera Paint source
- Easy Starfish Craft with Free Printable Template from Buggy and Buddy
- Paper Plate Pufferfish Craft for Kids source
- Cardboard Tube Jellyfish Craft for Kids source
- Clay Sea Turtle Art Craft for Kids from Buggy and Buddy
- Jellyfish Preschool Craft from Preschool Powol Packets
- Summer Crafts with an Ocean Theme for Kids from JDaniel 4s Mom
- Create these beautiful pictures of sea horses that you’ll find in Ocean Unit from The Usual Mayhem
- Don’t forget to print this Sea Drawing Prompt for your kids. They’ll have a fabulous time drawing underwater scenes. from Picklebums
- Cute Cupcake Liner Octopus Craft
- Free Printable Ocean Coloring Pages
Ocean science
Now it’s time for science! Encourage your kids to learn the names of sea animals with this funBump Game for Ocean Animals!
- Layers of the Ocean: Under the Sea Science from KC Edventures
- Ocean Zones, Sea Life, & Deep Sea Creatures source
- Lego Ocean Zones Activity from The Usual Mayhem
- How Sharks Float Experiment from Preschool Powol Packets
- How Do Ocean Currents Move and How Does This Affect Navigation from Adventures in Mommydom
- Here’s a Free Tide-Pool Interactive Notebook Perfect for K-2 Grade from You’ve Got this Math
- Learn about Horseshoe Crabs from Adventures in Mommydom
- Create a Rocky Shore Small World with Ocean Playdough from Buggy and Buddy
- {Free} Ocean Animals and Plants Cards from Preschool Powol Packets
- Let’s Learn About Stingrays from KC Edventures
- Ocean Life Building Directions and Work Mat from JDaniel 4s Mom
- And if you’re looking for a different and fascinating science experiment or your older kids, you can’t go wrong with the Breeding Guppies Experiment
Don’t miss the other animal studies we’ve created!
- Learn all about Whale Worksheets
- All About Pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, walrus life cycle)
- All About Herps (sea turtle worksheets, sea snakes, aquatic frogs, toads, salamander)
- All About Fish, Sharks, and Rays -with fish facts worksheets
- All About Mollusks, Cephalopods, and Crustaceans for kids (crabs, lobsters, octopus, bivalves, clams)
- All About Echinoderms & Cnidarians for kids (Jellyfish, Sea Stars, Sand Dollars, Coral)
- Huge Ocean Animals for Kids Lesson – 250+ pages of information, interesting facts, life cycles, worksheets, science experiments, and more!
Ocean activities for Preschoolers
- Take a trip to the coast and check out tide pools left when the tide goes out
- Enjoy a field trip to the local aquarium
- Learn All About the Oceans {World Map Puzzles}
- Here’s an inspirational example of how one family turned studying Oceans into a fun and fascinating week-long unit study!
Ocean theme preschool
Books to Read
Choose between these two options for using books in your weather unit study:
- Read a different book each day of the week, Monday through Friday.
- Read your favorite book (s) each day of the week. Kids love repetition, so don’t worry about your children getting bored!
Here are 5 excellent books about the ocean to read to your kids:
Weekly Themes
Whether you use these themed learning ideas for your lower elementary age students or as preschool weekly themes, we’ve got lots of fun themed eductational activities to make your lesson plan:
- Explore the fascinating world of insects in this bugs themes
- Head out to the great outdoors without leaving your homes with this fun camping themes
- Teach kids about community helpers with these fun math, literacy, and community helpers crafts and activities
- Ready for some prehistoric fun learning in this dinosaur themes
- Explore the season of autumn with these fun fall unit study
- Old McDonald had a farm EIEIO; kids will have fun learning about farm animals and tasks with this farm theme
- Kids will bloom with knowledge as they learn valuable skills and create projects in this flower theme
- Just because it’s summer doesn’t mean you can’t sneak in some learning with this fun, engaging 4th of july theme
- This September, you’ve got to try these fun apple themed activities for Johnny Appleseed Day Activities
- Dive in and learn about animals under the sea with this oceans theme
- For a week that’s out of this world, check out the ideas in this space theme
- Get ready for St Patty’s day in March with these creative St Patrick’s Day Theme
- Learn about the pilgrims in this creative Thanksgiving Unit Study
- Celebrate Earth day in April with this Tree Theme perfect for spring
- Roses are red, violets are blue, learning is fun, with Valentines Day themes
- Rain, snow, sleet, and hail – discover fascinating facts in this weather theme
- Bird watching is lots of fun with this bird theme
- It may be COLD outside, but inside it is warm and toasty as kids learn with this winter theme
- Discover some amazing animals in this fun zoo theme with hundreds of fun and clever activities
- Find all our weekly themes here or explore our preschool weekly themes for 50 more exciting weekly unit studies.
