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Save that bubble wrap to make this adorable bubble wrap jellyfish craft! This easy craft is great for preschoolers and kindergarteners. You can even do it with your toddler! A fun up-cycled craft for kids!
Check out my short form crafting series Curious Crafting on TVOkids and TVOkids YouTube! Watch all the episodes here. And look out for season 2 coming in 2023!
How to Set Up Bubble Wrap Jellyfish Craft
Cut a paper plate in half and paint it. I used a blue green colour. Set the paper plate aside to dry.
Take a piece of bubble wrap, the same width as the paper plate and cut thin strips into the bottom, leaving the top intact.
Use different coloured paints to paint each tentacle. (For toddlers: let them paint the bubble wrap all one color and let them use a sponge brush instead of a regular brush). Set it aside to dry.
Once everything is dry glue the tentacles to the back of the paper plate. Cut off any extra bubble wrap that stick out from behind the paper plate head of the jellyfish.
Glue googley eyes to the front of the plate just above the tentacles.
Hang it up in a window!
Age Suitability for Sponge Painted Ice Cream Craft
This activity is good for kids 3 years and up. My kids are 4, 4, and 8 year old.
Mess Level
This is a mess level is messy.
Difficulty to Create
Easy.
Skills Developed in Bubble Wrap Jellyfish Craft
Language development, hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, imaginative play, creativity.
Supplies for Bubble Wrap Jellyfish Craft
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Boring afternoons are made exciting with awesome animal-based bins, like Salty Shark Bay or Yarn Farm. Pretend play bins like Birthday Cake Sensory Play or Bubble Tea Party encourage creativity and imagination. And your kids will have so much fun they won’t even know they’re getting smarter with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) activities like Sink or Float Soup, Magnetic Letter Hunt or Ice Cream Scoop and Count.
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This show is all about fun and easy crafts for toddlers and preschoolers.
Set in the ultimate crafting space, Curious Crafting is a short form pre-school age series about the joy of making crafts. I lead a rotating cast of adorable little preschoolers (including my own) making magic out of common household objects.
In each episode we transform recycled items into magical crafts like a milk carton school bus, paper bag puppet or cotton pad turtle. The crafters learn and laugh their way through each activity while demonstrating what their young imaginations can create.
Curious Crafting shares the adventure and joy of making art with takeaway lessons for creating crafts at home.
Play is at the core of learning during the early years and it can take many forms. One of the most important of these is sensory play because it engages all of a child’s senses (taste, touch, smell, sight and hearing) and has a enoumous positive impact on brain development.
Our Sensory Play Kits are some fun and easy ways to keep your child engaged while at the same time using sensory play to nurture their mind!
