Students Create Art Projects Around Ocean Life.
The following art projects are samples of students’ work in Kindergarten through eighth grade. This allows students to reinforce their scientific knowledge as they creatively explore the magical world of marine science.
1.Kindergarten children transform one cell into multi-cellular creatures!
2. Kindergarten students trace plankton images onto left over laminate and then tape them onto one large sheet. A “plankton quilt” was hung in the window of our lobby for everyone to wonder and admire!
3. Lower Elementary students learn about the large fish with teeth that live at the bottom of the deep ocean. Then they painted and drew their own versions.
4. Lower Elementary students create marine life art from recycled materials.
5. The students use recycled “found materials” and crochet sea creatures for of our coral reef project.
6. Lower and Upper Elementary students make Cephalopods out of plaster of paris and paint them with their very own favorite colors using watercolor staining.
7. Many Upper Elementary students draw or trace and then color their choice of marine life. Younger students make trilobites out of popsicle sticks!
8. One student made a pencil and watercolor painting of her favorite frog!
9. Students recycle styrofoam packing to create these huge fish, which they made into a mobile for our school’s lobby.
10. Upper Elementary student spent a whole year working on an Imaginary Island Project. They presented their projects at the end of the school year which included: a topographical island build upon plywood, a written history of the climate and culture. Many students made masks or brought in food that was special to their island. This was an exceptionally well received project with students writing 25 to 30 pages in their books.
11. Middle School students went to a nearby beach to write and draw in their Nature Journals.
12. Middle School students also make collages and paintings of their findings.
